Text Based Adventure Game

Text Based Adventure Game

1. Task Requirement

   • prescribed criteria
     • part 1
       • create a pseudo code for each senario
         • player in bakery map location, input: talk to baker
         • player not at bakery location, input: talk to baker
         • no bread in backpack, input: eat bread
         • backpack contains bread, input: eat bread
       • desk checking
         • understand the code and justify it
     • part 2
       • generate a code that follows the requirements
         • the player begins with 3 health points
         • the player begin with on equipment but can pickup items from the map and use them
         • the player begins in one of the centre square of a 5 x 5 map grid
         • the map must be 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. E.g. “The bakery is north.”
         • 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
       • create a ideal user person for the textbased adventure game
       • create a wireframe and mockup of the text based adventure game
         • analyze the usability principle and visual principles in the text based adventure game
   • Self determine criteria
     • Is the visuals of the game aesthetically appealing?
   • Constrains and limitations
     • limited amount of time
       • only 6 weeks were given to do everything
     • coding enviroment
       • the only app used to make this game is thonny which has limited amount of features that can be used.
   • Existing solution
     • Solution 1: Forest of lyrica
       • Pro
         • contains key code that can be used on most text based adventure game
       • Con
         • it only contains the basics of a text based adventure game

2. User problem

   • User persona 1
     • user persona 1 - Jophy Yang
       • Jophy Yang is a teenager in school trying to find a game that he can play on his old laptop. He have been wanting to find a game that is not MOBA/FPS related.

3. Impacts

   • Social
     • could be a topic to be discussed by a group of friends
   • Personal
     • The player can play this game for a long period of time
   • Economics
     • Game can appeal to people in the market

4. Developer problems

   • user interface
     • Feature
       • have special avatar related to the games theme
       • Dark mode
     • user interface
       • user interface components
         • images
           • shows the game visually
             • Items
               • flute
               • hammer
               • gold
               • Key
             • map location
               • Gate
               • black smith
               • statues
         • Buttons
           • allows player do the interactions
             • move in directions
             • take item
             • drop item
       • usability principle
         • Accessability
           • The ability of your product being able to use by many people, even people with disability.
         • learnability
           • How easy it is to learn how to use the system.
         • effectiveness
           • It is how easy it is for the user to use the system to do the work they need to do, including reliability.
         • safety
           • It is the ability to allow the user to make mistake and being able to recover from the mistake.
         • utility
           • It is the ability of the system to provide all the functions that allows user to use the website more conveniently.
   • Variables
     • Global Variable
       • Player input
         • What players input as commands
       • game message
         • Messages shown to player depending on the action
       • Actions I know
         • North, East, South West
         • Q, Take, Use, Drop, Backpack, Help, Hint
       • Items i know
         • Gold
         • Flute
         • Hammer
         • Key
       • Hint
         • Get a hammer?
         • Hit the gong?
         • Maybe buy a flute
         • The cloud fish would love some music
         • Maybe unlock a door or some sort?
     • Local Variable
       • Accessed within a function

5. Data Type

   • String
     • North
     • Take
     • Help
   • Array
     • Location descriptions
     • Block path message
     • Hints

6. Algorithm construction

   • Assignment
     • Store values into a variable
   • Sequence
     • Set of instructions that are done after another in order
   • Selection
     • Used to make decisions to determine the next step to be executed
   • Condition
     • Algorithm used to determine if it is true of false
   • Iteration
     • Process of repeating certain lines of code until a requirement is met
   • Modularisation
     • Grouping codes to make it more simple