Text-based Adventure Game

Text-based Adventure Game

1. Prescribed Criteria

   • The story must have at least 10 different variables in total
     • Create a text-based adventure game Create the game in Python using Thonny
     • All variables must be different
     • The story must have at least 10 variables
   • Each input must have at least two choices
     • The game must provide choices for the player at each junction. These choices should take the story in different directions
     • Each input must have a minimum of two choices. For example: ‘Turn left’ OR ‘Turn right’
   • Must use a WHILE loop
     • The game must use the WHILE loop at least once
     • The loop must execute the function within
   • Must use variables to match the storyline
     • The variables used must relate to the storyline. For example, for fantasy, the variable could be ‘dragon_name’ or ‘forest_name’
     • Variables must be written using accepted naming conventions such as marketSquare or underscore between two words

2. Self-determined Criteria

   • Use ASCII art for my story
     • Use at least 2 ASCII arts in my story
     • The art must be relevant to the story theme
   • The story is spoken in first person
     • The storyline speaks in “I”, “myself” and “me”

3. Ideas for story

   • first perspective
     • The story is said in first person perspective
       • E.g: I arrived in the kitchen, what should I do?
   • Add a health counter
     • A health counter that goes down in certain outcomes
       • E.g: health goes down 1 if an unfamiliar word was typed in
   • Change to fantasy text-based story
     • The story is based on adventures in a fantasy world
       • E.g: Kingdoms, dragons, hags, sirens, etc

4. Existing text-based adventure games

   • Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
     • A science fiction about an Englishman with a companion named Ford Prefect on an adventure in space
       • Pos: The game has a lot of unexpected plot twists
       • Neg: The game needs specific words to continue
   • Genesis MUD
     • Free to play text-based centred on exploration, roleplay and combat
       • Pos: A wide range of places to travel and complete freedom
       • Neg: A lot of complex puzzles and not enough combat

5. Algorithm constructs

   • Sequence
     • A set of instructions that are processed one after the other
       • e.g: Getting a book ->START Go to bookshelf Take a random book STOP
   • Assignment
     • Storing a value in a variable
       • e.g: START DECLARE animal SET animal TO cat OUTPUT “the animal is a cat” STOP
   • Selection and Condition
     • Uses a condition to select which line of program will be used next
       • e.g: IF colour is green THEN OUTPUT Input green ELSE OUTPUT Look again ENDIF
   • Iteration
     • Also called repetition, used when something is repeated over and over again in a loop
       • e.g: FOR 5 seconds MOVE backwards ENDFOR
       • e.g: WHILE distance is 2cm STOP ENDWHILE
   • Modularisation
     • To break down complex systems into smaller self-contained units or modules

6. Coding constructs

   • IF statements
     • executes a command if the condition is true
       • e.g: IF you go left THEN you walk down a long path ENDIF
   • FOR loops
     • Used for iterating over a sequence
       • e.g FOR 5 steps TURN left ENDFOR