Text Based Adventure Game

Text Based Adventure Game

1. Prescribed Criteria

   • Your story must have at least 10 different inputs before finishing.
     • There must be a least 2 different options for each question
     • There has to be 10 different types of question in the entirety of the game.
     • The same input can't be repeated in another option
   • You must have at least two choices for each input. IE. Yes | No, Left | Right, Buy | Sell
     • Have 2 or more opposing options
     • Make the different options one word
   • You must use variables
     • The must be multiple variables throughout the code. this helps reuse code multiple times
   • You must use a WHILE Loop
     • There has to be at least 1 while loop in the code of the game

2. Self-Determined Criteria

   • Make a game which has a genre of thriller and horror
     • The game need to involve horror/scary aspects
     • It needs to involve a type of mystery and there has to be clues to help solve the mystery
     • There needs to be deaths involved
     • Ideas
       • Murder mystery kind of game
       • Has a dark and mysterious appearance to the game s output

3. Existing Text-Based Adventure Games

   • Zork
     • About trying to locate treasures and depositing them into a trophy chest
       • There are multiple goals to reach
       • Very Overhyped
   • Lifeline
     • About trying to survive on an unknown moon after their spaceship crashed
       • Tell a good story
       • time to play
   • A Dark Room
     • About a playing waking up in darkness, building fires, gathers resources, meeting strangers, starts village, and explores world.
       • Simple game loop
       • Lack of clear instructions

4. Coding Constructs

   • Iteration
     • For loops
       • if choice == "chocolate" print else: print
     • While loop
       • while true
   • Selection and Condition
     • If statements
   • Assignments
     • Set something to somthing
   • Sequence
     • The order something happens
   • Modularisation
     • Break down a system into modules

5. Aesthetic Features

   • Use ASCII_ANSI code to make the output of the game look more interesting
   • Make the look of the game match the vibe of it as well.
   • Sections of the code would be in a different colour compared to the other parts.