Practice Assignment

Practice Assignment

1. The scope of the problem

   • Context
     • Explore, develop, generate and evaluate programmed components for a text based adventure game
       • Satisfy the user persona
       • Process user input using natural language processing
       • Vividly describe surroundings and POI's
       • Provide the user with important information such as hints and help
   • Importance of the problem
     • Re-theme an existing text based adventure game in accordance to user persona interests
       • Game must have an ocean theme
       • Game must involve sea creatures and items
       • Realistic and engaging storyline

2. Essential elements, components and features of problems in Digital Solutions

   • Essential elements
     • Objectives/goals
       • Retheme the Forest Of Lyrica into a ocean themed text based adventure game
       • Game must include sea creatures and items related to the ocean
       • Each position on the map must have a suitable image
     • Constraints
       • Time
       • Software
         • Web browser
       • Device requirements
         • Desktops
       • Designed for primary school students, so the solution must be easy to understand
     • Stakeholders
       • Primary school students interested in adventure games
       • User persona
       • Developers
       • Teachers
   • Components
     • Inputs
       • User persona frustrations
       • User persona needs and expectations
       • User persona interests
       • Forest Of Lyrica
     • Processes
     • Outputs
       • Text based adventure game
       • Pseudocode
       • Algorithm
     • Tools and technologies
       • Visual Studio Code
       • HTML
       • Python
       • Flask
       • CSS
   • Features
     • Complexity
       • Keep track of items collected in a backpack
       • Process English commands
       • Keep track of user movement to ensure they remain within the 3x3 grid
     • Interdependencies
       • Images link to the locations and enhance the story
       • User interface depends on the HTML and CSS
     • Scalability
       • Only accessible for one user
       • Scalability not required

3. Constraints and limitations of the environment

   • Organisational constraints
     • 4 weeks timeframe
     • No budget
     • Single developer
   • Software constraints
     • Python 3.12
     • Windows 10/11
   • Hardware constraints
     • The game is not limited by hardware
   • Visual Studio Code
   • Based off the Forest of Lyrica
   • Text-based adventure game
   • Accessibility
     • Large, clear images
     • Readable font
     • Simple buttons
     • High contrast
     • Must be able to run on a desktop browser
     • Must load quickly

4. The requirements of the solution

   • Technical requirements
     • HTML
     • CSS
     • Python
     • Flask
   • Core features
     • Accept text input
     • Output a story
   • User interface
     • HTML web app
     • Coherent colour theme
     • Engaging and relevant images
   • Manage data
   • Meet user requirements
   • Non-functional requirements
     • Scalability
     • Performance
     • Reliability
     • Usability

5. The user perspective and user-experience requirements

   • Usability principles
     • Utlity
       • What features the solution has
     • Learnability
       • How quickly new users can become proficient with the system
     • Effectiveness
       • The speed and efficiency with which users can complete tasks or use the utilities
     • Safety
       • How the system helps prevent user errors and how easy it is to recover from mistakes
     • Accessibility
       • Considerations for users with disabilities
   • User persona
     • Goal
       • To become more educated about marine life
     • Expectations
       • Engaging text-based adventure game
       • Playable on desktop devices
       • Easy to understand - includes instructions
     • Frustrations
       • Games that don't have instructions and unclear storylines
     • Interests
       • Sea creatures
       • Fishing
       • Boating

6. Technical issues of the problem that influence the user-interface requirements

   • Must function on Windows devices with a web browser

7. Missing, required or unnecessary facts or information

   • Sources of information
     • QCAA
     • QLearn
     • Existing solutions
     • W3 Schools
     • Image geneator
   • Required information
     • Packages
     • User interface
     • Theme

8. Success criteria to evaluate the personal, social and economic impacts of the solution

   • The text-based adventure game must be completely rethemed from Forest of Lyrica.
   • The text-based adventure game must use images that align with the theme of your game.
   • The text-based adventure game must have a different overall aesthetic than Forest of Lyrica.
   • The text-based adventure game must satisfy the user persona