Text based adventure game

Text based adventure game

1. Objective

   • make cake
   • User personal
     • User persona- Emily Clear
       • Wanting to play a game that is not too complicated or hard to understand. She likes baking

2. Features

   • Health points
     • Gained from eating food
     • Lose 1 hp after 15 actions moved
     • recommendation
       • lost when trying to go outside of map
     • improvement
       • lose point when trying to go out of map
   • Visuals
     • Map
       • 5x5 grid
         • 25 locations
         • 25 locations
       • Library
       • Beach
       • Lighthouse
       • ASCII art
       • Fireplace
       • Barn
       • Market
       • Forest
       • Cottage
       • River
       • Barn
   • generic keywords that work everywhere
     • go
       • east
       • north
       • south
       • west
       • recommendations
         • up
         • down
         • left
         • right
       • north
       • improvement
         • up
         • down
         • left
         • right
       • west
       • south
     • talk
       • farmer
         • give random 5 hints
       • stallholder
       • 2 NPCs
         • farmer
         • stallholder
         • 5 random hints
     • help
     • quit/q
     • take
     • drop
     • put
     • backpack
       • array
     • Drop
     • backpack
     • hint
   • keywords for specific items
     • bake cake

3. data

   • assignment
     • Assignment is used to store the value of an expression into a variable. It is the way that a variable is told to remember a certain value
   • sequencing
     • A sequence is the order in which a number of instructions are carried out. The steps are processed one after the other and each needs to be performed in the right order
   • selection
     • Selection statement uses a condition to select the next line of the program that is to be executed. These help to make decisions and change the flow of a program.
   • condition
     • Condition statements are selection statements, evaluating whether an action is true or fals
   • desk checking
   • iteration
     • Iteration (FOR Loop) is used when something is repeated over and over again (a loop), these are WHILE, REPEAT and FOR statements
   • required data
     • maploc
   • Variable
     • global
       • accessible through whole program
         • item
         • gameMessage
         • action
         • endGame
         • hint
         • maploc

4. Developer problems

   • User interface
     • User principles
       • Effectiveness
         • The ability of users to use the system to do the work they need to do, the system is constant and dependable
       • Safety
         • The ability for users to make errors and recover from those mistake
       • Learnability
         • How easy it is to learn
       • Accessibility
         • The ability of a product to be used by many different people, including those with disabilities and can still benefits people with slow internet or on mobile device
       • Utility
         • The ability of the system to provide all the functionality that users need, it also measures how satisfactory the person feels about a particular application
     • User interface components
     • features
       • avatar
   • Data
     • Data storage and retrieval
     • Required data types
       • maploc
         • integer
           • 25
             • Constraint
               • Adding more locations may be difficult
       • Backpack
         • array
           • 3
             • Constraint
       • index
       • types of data value
     • generic keywords that work everywhere
       • help
       • take
       • use

5. impacts

   • economic
     • game can be marketed
   • personal
     • game can be saved for personal progress
   • social
     • fun game for players

6. Task requirement

   • prescribed criteria
     • part 1
       • create pseudocode which processes each scenerio
         • player in bakery map location
         • backpack contains brea
         • no bread in backpack
         • player not in bakery map location
     • part 2
       • context
         • In your text-based adventure game the player must be able to navigate the map, talk with NPCs, interact with objects and you must have a way to finish your game.
       • task
         • generate code for a python program that meets the following prescribed criteria
           • The player begins with 3 health points
           • The player begins with no equipment but can pick up items from the map and use them
           • The player begins in one of the centre squares of a 5 x 5 map grid
           • The map must be displayed visually, as ASCII art.
           • There must be at least two Non-Playable Characters (NPCs) that can be talked to
           • When talked to, the two NPCs will give a random game hint from a possible list of 5 hints.
           • The player can navigate the map using valid commands: “north”, “south”, “east” and “west”. Other navigation commands will return: “I do not understand”
           • When the player arrives at a new location a text-based description of the location is displayed.
           • If the player tries to move outside the boundary of the map a message appears explaining that the way is blocked, and the player cannot move in that direction.
           • Have a series of events that the player must complete to finish the game.
     • Part 3
       • recognition and description of usability principles