pokenalysis

pokenalysis

Artwork by Miguel Arana

Command-line tool that computes statistics about Pokemon video game series data. Things computed:

• Ocurrance of Types
• How many pokemon is a Type super-effective against?
• Ratio of pokemons a Type is good against vs bad against.
• Best Move Set for any given pokemon.

All these statistics can be computed on any combination of pokemon generations and results can be sorted in any direction.

I built this project to learn Go.

Design

We use PokeApi's data.

The first time the tool is run, it will download the data concurrently to a temporary folder. Subsequent runs will read from local folder.

The commands compute data on the fly, some use as many processors as possible.

Usage

pokenalysis -command=<command> -gens=<gens> -sort=<sort>

• command: (string) one of either 'histo', 'superhisto', 'goodratio', 'bestpoke'
• gens: (string) comma-separated list of ints from 1 - 7. e.g. 1,2,5,6
• sort: (int) -1, 0 or 1.

Future Work:

• Sql CLI for Pokemon. Full with query parser, executor, ext...
• Make simulation be able to run in multiple machines. Use network to implement a PAXOS-kind of protocol and make distributed system self-healing.