Text based adventure game - Digi tech assessment

Text based adventure game - Digi tech assessment

1. Success Criteria

   • Self Determined Critiera
     • Must incorporate a musical aspect (specifically violin)
       • Have the violin have a core role in story
       • Address specific features of the violin (such as the bow, strings etc)
   • Your story must have at least 10 different variables in total
     • Must have 10 variables
     • Must have a story
     • Must have different variables
   • You must have at least two choices for each input
     • Have choices for inputs
     • Give variation in choice
     • Have at least two choices for input
   • You must use a WHILE loop
     • Include a WHILE loop
   • You must use variables that match your storyline
     • Use story specific vocabulary
     • Modify variables based on events and reflect consequences immediately
     • Data type must fit what they are measuring

2. Exisiting Text Based Adventure Games

   • Fallen London
     • A gothic, text-based role-playing game set in an alternate London that was stolen by bats and dragged underground. Players can play as poets or criminals while navigating through devils and cosmic horror.
       • Strengths - offers a game with the unique theme of gothic Victorian culture and has an immersive, deep lore
       • Weakness - complexity of game could lead to players becoming lost or confused
   • 80 Days
     • An interactive text-based adventure game where players must travel around the world in 80 days or less. The game involves players having to manage money and take care off their boss
       • Weakness - having to continuously buy and sell things to fund the trip can feel tedious, and the constant countdown can cause players to feel stressed
       • Strengths - a wide range of options that could lead to an outcome unique and specific to player's choices

3. Ideas for Story

   • Add emoticons
     • Adding emoticons can enhance the text-based game's visual design, enhance player engagement and serve as a unique element
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   • Trivia questions to complete game
     • Trivia questions could make the game more interactive and engaging for the playeres
       • E.g: When was the first violin invented? a) around 1550 b) around 1870 c) around 1430
   • Have life/health counter
     • Could increase the stakes of the game and make it more exciting
       • e.g: III (three lives)

4. Algorithm constructs

   • Sequence
     • The order in which code runs, moving from top to bottom. The computer reads and follows each command one by one in that exact sequence.
       • DECLARE count SET count TO 1 OUTPUT the value of count
   • Selection
     • Runs different lines of code depending on whether a statement is true or false
       • CALCULATE totalCost IF (totalCost > $10) THEN OUTPUT 'no delivery charge' ELSE OUTPUT '$5 delivery charge' ENDIF OUTPUT 'thankyou'
   • Iteration
     • Tool used to repeat a set of instructions until a condition is met
       • Print the numbers 1 to 5 FOR counter = 1 TO 5 OUTPUT counter NEXT counter
   • Assignment
     • Storing a value inside a variable
       • DECLARE studentName SET studentName TO Bob
   • Condition
     • A decision-making tool that tests whether a statement is true or false, running specific blocks of code only if the condition is ment
       • CALCULATE totalCost IF (totalCost > $10) THEN OUTPUT 'no delivery charge' ELSE OUTPUT '$5 delivery charge' ENDIF OUTPUT 'thankyou'

5. Coding Constructs

   • FOR loops
     • Repeats a set of inner blocks for a specific number of times
       • DECLARE count SET count TO 0 FOR count = 1 to 10 OUTPUT count END FOR OUTPUT ‘finished’
   • ELIF
     • Stands for 'else if' and is used in conditional statements to check multiple, sequential conditions
   • IF / ELSE
     • Evaluates a condition as true or false to determine which commands to execute
       • IF score >= 60 THEN OUTPUT "You passed the exam." ELSE OUTPUT "You failed the exam." ENDIF
   • Variable
     • A symbolic name that acts as a pointer to a value stored in the computer's memory
   • IS EQUAL TO
     • Compares two pieces of data to check whether they are identical, and triggers a 'true' signal to run a specific code if both sides are equal
       • START SET num1 = 12 SET num2 = 30 SET total = num1 + num2 PRINT "The total is ", total END
   • START
     • Triggers execution of all connected blocks underneath it when program gets run
   • THEN
     • Acts as a conditional trigger that only does a certain actions when a specific rule or condition is met. If the rule is true, the program executes the blocks inside the "then" section
   • STOP
     • A command to stop code execution
       • START INPUT num1 INPUT num2 sum ← num1 + num2 OUTPUT sum STOP
   • WHILE
     • A conditional loop that runs as long as a specific rule remains true
       • DECLARE count SET count TO 0 WHILE (there are items in a pile) ADD 1 TO count END WHILE OUTPUT the number of items