Game Code Map

Game Code Map

1. Success Criteria

   • Your story must have at least 10 different variables in total
   • You must have at least two choices for each input (IE. Yes | No, Left | Right, Buy | Sell)
   • You must use a WHILE loop
   • You must use variables that match your storyline

2. Ideas for story

   • Add fantasy creatures
     • Unicorns
     • Cyclops
     • Wizard and witchs
   • Add a health counter
     • Player has 20 health
     • Player can lose and gain health
   • Add a gambling system
     • Can go to casinos and gamble your money
       • Choose a number between 1 to 10 for 10x money
       • Choose number from 1 to 5 for 5x money

3. Existing text based adventure games

   • Colossal cave adventure
     • Colossal Cave Adventure, also known simply as Adventure, is a historic text-based game created in 1976 by Will Crowther and Don Woods that became the blueprint for the entire adventure and interactive fiction genre.
       • Strength: The game brilliantly pioneered interactive fiction by blending real-world cave mapping with fantasy elements, creating the blueprint for the entire adventure genre.
       • Weakness: The primitive two-word parser and brutal trial-and-error mechanics forced players to constantly fight rigid vocabulary limits and unfair, sudden deaths.
   • Zork series
     • Zork is a landmark series of interactive fiction and adventure video games set in the ruins of the fictional Great Underground Empire (GUE)
       • Strength: The series featured an incredibly sophisticated text parser and a witty, satirical world that turned the player's imagination into a vivid graphics engine.
       • Weakness: The gameplay was notoriously unforgiving, frequently trapping players in unwinnable "dead-end" states or killing them instantly without warning.

4. Algorithm constructs

   • Modularisation
     • A software design technique where a large, complex program is broken down into smaller, independent, and interchangeable building blocks called modules.
   • Iteration
     • Iteration is the fundamental programming construct that allows a block of code to be repeatedly executed.
   • Selection and condition
     • The condition is the test (True or False), and selection is choosing which path of code to run based on that test.

5. Coding constructs

   • For loop
     • A for loop in Python is used to iterate over a sequence (like a list, tuple, dictionary, set, or string) or any other iterable object.
   • IF statement
     • In Python, an if statement evaluates a condition and executes a block of code only if that condition is True