Item 2

Item 2

1. Prescribed Criteria

   • P1: Your story must have at least 10 different variables in total
     • Game must have different variables so the player is able to choose different options
     • My story has over 10 variables to help keep the story going
     • The 10 different variables will help the player either win or lose
   • P2: You must have at least two choices for each input (IE. Yes | No, Left | Right, Buy | Sell)
     • Game will have multiple choice questions that will take the player to a new multiple choice question
     • Game will have lots of options so players can decide their fate
   • P3: You must use a WHILE loop
     • Game must include a while loop to keep the game going and make it fun
   • P4: You must use variables that match your storyline
     • The game will have selection and condition variables

2. Self-Determined Criteria

   • You must make the game have different rooms and make it have aesthetic features
     • Game will have different choices
     • Game will have different endings
     • Game must have ASCII art of a car in my program

3. Ideas for Story

   • Add Health Counter
     • A system for tracking and displaying a player's or enemy's current hit points
       • An example is Player Health: 20/20 -> Enemy attacks -> Player Health: 12/20
   • Change Sci-Fi Story
     • Change the story to a horror game
   • Track Player Name
     • Tracking a player's name means saving the user's chosen name into a variable
       • player_name = input("Enter your name: ") print(f"Welcome, {player_name}!")

4. Existing Text Based Adventure Games

   • Forests of Lyrica
     • Forest of Lyrica is a text-based adventure game where players navigate a magical forest, interact with characters, solve riddles, and collect items to progress through the story
       • Strengths
         • Creative
         • players can make their own choices
         • simple and easy to learn
       • Weaknesses
         • Limited actions
         • Repetitive
         • Not too exciting
   • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
     • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a fun and adventurous game that follows Arthur Dent, an ordinary Englishman, who finds himself in a series of intergalactic misadventures. The game is filled with puzzles and humor, and it's a great way for kids to learn about the universe and its mysteries
       • Strenghts
         • Different settings
         • Its funny
       • Weaknesses
         • Die too easily
         • Repetititve

5. Algorithm Constructs

   • Sequence
     • Sequence is a set of instructions or steps that happen in a specific order to complete a task
       • An example is when making a character move in a game like "Character collects a coin"
   • Iteration
     • Iteration means repeating a set of instructions or actions until something is complete
       • An example is in a game, a character keeps walking forward until it reached a wall
   • Modularisation
     • Modularisation means breaking a big program or task into smaller parts called modules so its easier to create, test and fix
       • An example is when making a game, you could split it into modules, one for movement, one for sound, one for levels, etc.

6. Coding Constructs

   • IF statement
     • An IF statement is used to make decisions in a program. It tells the computer to do something only if a condition is true
       • An example is "IF the player touches a coin, ADD 10 points to the score
   • FOR loops
     • A FOR loop is used to repeat a set of instructions a certain number of times
       • An example is a character in a game jumps 5 times "FOR 5 times, MAKE, the character jump