Text-based adventure game

Text-based adventure game

1. Task

   • Game scaffold
     • Mind map
     • User persona
       • Age
       • Education
       • Goals
       • Needs and expectations
       • Fustrations
     • Prescribed and self-determined criteria
     • Story flow
     • Algorithm
       • Pseudocode
     • Desk check
     • Testing
     • User survey
     • Evaluation
     • References
   • Prescribed criteria
     • At least 10 different inputs
     • Two choices for each input
     • Use IF statements
     • Use WHILE loops
     • Uses variables
   • Self determined criteria
     • Game must be visually appealing
       • Text are written in different colours
       • A variety of colours are used to make the game more colourful
       • ASCII art is used throughout the game

2. Games

   • Types of games
     • Horror games
     • Fantasy games
     • Riddle games
     • Sci-fi games
     • Factual games
     • adventure games
     • Fighting games

3. Coding environment

   • Thonny
     • Python
     • developing zone
     • testing zone
     • Colour coded

4. Existing solutions

   • Zork
     • Pros
       • “entertaining, eloquent, witty, and precise”
       • ‘challenging, enjoyable, and funny“
     • cons
       • “puzzle's difficulty and reliance on baseball knowledge”
       • infamously difficult
   • the dreamhold
   • Night house
   • Spider and web
   • Torn

5. User requirements

   • Interests
     • Nature
     • Books
     • Survival shows
     • Camping
     • Gaming
   • Game ideas
     • Fighting game where user decides moves
     • Game where user answers sets of riddles to win
     • Survival game where user chooses options to try survive in the forest
   • Frustrations
     • Too complex
     • Choices are too complex
     • Too long
     • Dull colours and not enough images
     • too complex

6. Coding options

   • Python
     • What if statements
     • Input
     • Print
     • strings
     • INT, STR,
     • Break
     • while
     • comments

7. Testing game logic

   • Algorithm
     • Desk check
       • Guessing and checking code
       • Looking and evaluating code