Text Based Adventure Game

Text Based Adventure Game

1. Prescribed Criteria

   • 10 different variables
     • Case insensitivity
     • Unused variables
   • Must usse a while loop
   • At least 2 choices for each input
     • Multiple unique endings
   • Use variables that match your storyline
     • variables must relate to the story

2. Self Determined Criteria

   • Add a souls like boss fight in text form
   • Good health and resource management
   • Make sure enviornment can be imagined in head through description

3. Ideas for story

   • Dark fantasy
   • One man against the world to fulfill his purpose
   • Multiple bosses on their way to stop him and bosses must be defeated to beat the game

4. Algorithm Constructs

   • Iteration
     • Iteration is also called repetition and is used when something is repeated over and over again, so anything where the program goes round in a loop.
   • Modularisation
     • Modularisation is used to reduce the complexity of a system by deconstructing it into independent units or modules.
   • Selection and condition
     • A selection statement uses a condition to select, or determine, the next line of the program that is to be executed.
   • Assignment
     • Assignment is used to store the value of an expression into a variable.
   • Sequence
     • A sequence is a number of instructions that are processed one after the other.

5. Coding Constructs

   • For Loops
     • A for loop is a programming construct used to repeat a specific block of code a set number of time
   • If statements
     • An if statement is a fundamental programming construct that acts as a decision-making tool, allowing a computer program to execute specific blocks of code only when certain conditions are true.

6. Existing text based adventure games

   • Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy
     • A really difficult and punishing game
       • Almost too punshing
       • Encourages trial and error
   • Forests of Lyrica