Year 9 - term 4

Year 9 - term 4

1. Self-Determined Criteria

   • SD1
     • The game will include text-based pictures
       • Include at least one ASCII art picture
       • Use characters and symbols to create the picture
       • Make the picture match the game's storyline
   • SD2
     • The game will use different text colours
       • Use different colours for text
       • Use red text for danger warnings
       • Use colours to highlight important information

2. Ideas for Story

   • Add health counter
     • Shows how much health the player has left
       • The player starts with 100 health points and loses 10 when hit by an enemy.
   • Change to Sci-Fi story
     • Changes the game’s setting and story to science fiction
       • The player explores different planets and fights aliens
   • Track player name
     • Records the player's name throughout the game
       • The game uses the player's name in dialogue and story events

3. Existing text based adventure games

   • Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy
     • A text-based adventure game where you play as Arthur Dent and solve puzzles while exploring space after Earth is destroyed by aliens
       • Weakness: difficult to understand
       • Strength: funny dialogue and challenging puzzles
   • Forest of Lyrica
     • A text-based adventure game where players explore a mysterious forest and make choices as they progress. carterh.itch.io
       • Strength:encourages imagination
       • Weakness: Hard to know the next move

4. Perscribed Criteria

   • PC4
     • The variables must match the game's storyline
       • Use variables related to the story
       • Give variables suitable names
       • Use variables to store information about the player's progress
   • PC3
     • The game must use a WHILE loop
       • Include a WHILE loop in the code
       • Repeat instructions while a condition is true
       • Stop the loop when the condition is false
   • PC2
     • The game must have at least two choices for each input
       • Give players at least two options
       • Make sure the options are clearly written
       • Allow players to choose between the options
   • PC1
     • The game must have at least 10 different variables
       • Include at least 10 variables
       • Make sure all variables are different
       • Variable must match the question

5. Algorithm Constructs

   • sequence
     • Instructions are complete in a specific order, one after another
       • START OUTPUT "Welcome to the Amazon" INPUT choice OUTPUT "Continue journey" END
   • Assigment
     • Giving a name (variable) a value
       • SET health to 100
   • Selection & Conditoin
     • The program checks a condition and chooses different actions depending on whether its true or false
       • IF injury_choice == "yes" THEN OUTPUT "You are healed" ELSE OUTPUT "GAME OVER" ENDIF
   • Iteration
     • A set of instructions repeats multiple times until a condition is met
       • WHILE game_started == true INPUT choice ENDWHILE
   • Modularisation
     • Dividing a product into smaller separate parts that can be easier to be worked with

6. Coding Constructs

   • WHILE loops
     • Repeats instructions while a condition is true
       • WHILE program_started == true INPUT choice ENDWHILE
   • IF statemnets
     • Makes a descisions if a condition is true, if so follows that instruction if false another instruction runs
       • IF injury_choice == "yes" THEN OUTPUT "Continue journey" ELSE OUTPUT "GAME OVER" ENDIF