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1. Existing Text Based Adventure Games

   • Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
     • Co-created by Douglas Adams in 1984, this notoriously difficult Infocom text adventure follows Arthu Dent. PLayers type commands to navigate surreal puzzle-cruelty, pultiple perspectives, and the infamous Babel Fish trap.
       • Strengths
         • Brilliant Satire and Absurdist Humor
         • Iconic, memorable world-building
       • Weaknesses
         • Episodic plotting and uneven pacing
         • Thin character depth and emotional core
   • Forests of Lyrica
     • The Forest of Lyrica is an introductory HTML5/JavaScript text adventure featured in Rex van der Spuy's Foundation Game Design. Players navigate a 3x3 grid using text commands to slay a sleeping dragon.
       • Strengths
         • Highly accessible, clean javascript architecture
         • Straightforward win condition
       • Weaknesses
         • Severely Constrained world scale and map depth
         • MInimal Action Complexity

2. Ideas for Story

   • Add Health counter
     • Tracks player's current health
       • health=100
   • Post apocalyptic themed
     • Players explore an abandoned building and try to escape
       • include horror factors such as strange characters/uncertainty about the environment
   • Incorporate ASCII/ANSI into code
     • Include one at the start of game and one at the end
       • Eg: ( ´ ▽ ` )

3. Self-Determined Criteria

   • Create a horror/post-apocalyptic themed adventure game
     • Set the game in an abandoned building
     • Add survival elements eg health and scavenging for supplies
     • Use coloured text and ASCII art to enhance the horror atmosphere.

4. Prescribed Criteria

   • Your story must have at least 10 different variables in total
     • Use variables to store player choices
     • Use variables to track health, inventory and collected items
     • Use variables to determine the game's ending
   • You must have at least two choices for each input (IE. Yes | No, Left | Right, Buy | Sell)
     • Give the player choices eg turning around or scavenging
     • Allow the player to choose between left or right doors
     • Let player decide whether to ignore or approach stranger
   • You must use a WHILE loop
     • Use while loop to keep game running
     • Allow player to make decisions during the game
     • Allow the game to handle invalid inputs without immediately ending
   • You must use variables that match your storyline
     • Health to track player’s survival
     • Inventory to store collected items
     • Use choice and ending variables to control the story’s progress

5. Algorithm Constructs

   • Sequence
     • Set of instructions in chronological order
       • colors = ["Red", "Green", "Blue"] print(colors)
   • Assignment
     • Storing value in a variable
       • name = "Alex" age = 16 print(name) print(age)
   • Selection & Condition
     • Selection uses condition to choose which code to run next
       • temperature: 32 if temperature > 30: print("It's a hot day!")
   • Iteration
     • Processing of repeating a block of code multiple times
       • for color in ["Red", "Green", "Blue"]: print(f"Color: {color}")
   • Modularisation
     • The process of breaking a large, complex program into smaller, independent and reusable files
       • def greet(name): print(f"Hello, {name}!") greet("Alice") greet("Bob") Output: text: Hello, Alice! Hello, Bob!

6. Coding Constructs

   • IF statements
     • Code tool used to make choices
       • score = 95 if score > 90: print("You passed!")
   • FOR loops
     • Repeat a specific block of code
       • for pet in ["cat", "dog", "fish"]: print(pet)