Digitech

Digitech

1. Coding constructs

   • IF statements
     • Allows code to make decisions
   • IF ELSE statements
     • Make decisions base don specific conditions

2. Prescribed Criteria

   • Prescribed Criteria 1
     • Your Story must have at least 10 different variables in total
       • Go to biology
       • Skip class
       • Go to nurse
       • Take a cigarette
       • Reject a cigarette
       • Take an ice pack
       • Ask for medicine
       • Take pill from nurse
       • Throw away pill
       • Take pill
   • Prescribed Criteria 2
     • You must have at least two choices for each input
       • input("Do you want to go to biology, skip class, or see the school nurse? (biology/skip/nurse) ") This example shows 3 options.
   • Prescribed Criteria 3
     • You must use a WHILE loop
       • While True:
   • Prescribed Criteria 4
     • You must use variables that match your storyline
       • As a school student, variables like nurse, biology, skipping class or obnoxious things like cigarettes match the storyline

3. Self-determined criteria

   • Aesthetically appealing text format
   • Multiple endings rather than coming back to one

4. Ideas for story

   • Incorporate real life situations
     • Incorporate disorders, disabilities, and unfortunate situations to allow the player to comedically experience others lives
   • Track playername
     • Let the player input a name, anything but their own, let them be creative. Then later on ask the player what their name is as a part of the storyline

5. Existing Text Based Advetenture Games

   • Forests of Lyrica
     • Players navigate through a grid of different wooded locations, inputting simple directional commands (North, South, East, West) to explore, discover hidden items, and interact with the environment
       • Strengths
         • Unique cultural and poetic fusion
         • Creative mechanics
         • Engaging storytelling
       • Weaknesses
         • Strict hardware requirements
         • Static visuals
         • Niche appeal
   • Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
     • Difficult text based adventure game playing as Arthur Dent attempting to escape Earth’s demolition with comedic trial and error puzzles
       • Strengths
         • Comedic humour
         • Original story
         • Comedic ‘guide’ character
       • Weaknesses
         • Difficulty
         • Absurd logic
         • Limited player agency (frustrating trial and error)

6. Algorithm Constructs

   • Sequence
     • Ordered collection of elements where each item is identified by a specific position (index)
   • Assignment
     • Process of storing specific value in a variable
       • biology_choice = input("Do you want to participate in the prac or see the school nurse? (participate/nurse) ")
   • Selection & Condition
     • True or False + programming construct that uses conditions to make decisions
       • While True:
   • Iteration
     • Repeating a set of instructions or steps multiple times until a condition is met
       • While True: (as long as the game doesn’t break)
   • Modularisation
     • Breaking a large software system into smaller, independent parts called modules
       • E.g. main py