Digital technologies mind map 2

Digital technologies mind map 2

1. Existing text based games

   • until dawn
     • Players take control of eight young adults on Blackwood Mountain, making choices that determine their survival and the story's outcome
       • thriller/ horror/psychological
         • unsuitable imagery/ flashing lights
   • GTA 5
     • Grand Theft Auto V's single-player story follows three protagonists – Michael De Santa, Franklin Clinton, and Trevor Philips – as they navigate the criminal underworld of Los Santos and commit heists while facing pressure from corrupt government agencies and powerful criminals
       • action/ thriller/ open world
         • age inappropriate content
   • Red dead redemption
     • John Marston, a former outlaw, is forced by the government to hunt down his former gang members in order to protect his family
       • action/ thriller/ shooter
         • violence, swearing

2. Criteria

   • self prescribed criteria
     • include secrets/ a secret ending
       • include a detective/ horror theme
         • contain information
   • prescribed criteria
     • You must have at least two choices for each input. IE. Yes | No, Left | Right, Buy | Sell
     • Your story must have at least 10 different inputs before finishing
     • You must use IF statements
       • You must use a WHILE Loop
         • include aesthetic features, such as word art

3. Coding constructs

   • FOR loop
     • A for loop is used for iterating over a sequence (that is either a list, a tuple, a dictionary, a set, or a string). This is less like the for keyword in other programming languages, and works more like an iterator method as found in other object-orientated programming languages.
   • WHILE loop
     • A "While" Loop is used to repeat a specific block of code an unknown number of times, until a condition is met. For example, if we want to ask a user for a number between 1 and 10, we don't know how many times the user may enter a larger number, so we keep asking "while the number is not between 1 and 10"
   • IF ELSE ELSEIF
     • if, if-else, and if-elif-else statements are conditional control structures in Python used to execute different blocks of code based on whether certain conditions are true or false.
   • variables
     • Variables in Python are symbolic names that refer to objects or values stored in the computer's memory. They act as containers for holding data, which can be of various types, including numbers, strings, and lists.
   • arrays
     • In Python, an array is a data structure that stores a collection of elements of the same data type in contiguous memory locations. Arrays are useful for organizing and managing data efficiently.

4. Story brainstorming

   • the player simulates a character
     • the player will play as a gingerbread man, with the context of him looking for his brother, and searching for information through his blog, which is on the computer
   • story ideas
     • fantasy
       • go on a journey to retrieve magical elixir
         • encounter enemies on paths
     • technotic
       • run from the cops
         • have to fight robots
   • contain multiple endings
     • equal number of good and bad endings