Text adventure game planning

Text adventure game planning

1. Prescribed Criteria

   • Your story must have at least 10 different variables in total
     • Set up exactly 10 different variables
     • Use both numeric and text variable
     • Avoiding unnecessary duplicates of variable
   • Must have at least two choices for each input
     • Give players at least two clear options at every turn
     • Use Else blocks to react with wrong answers
     • Loop back to the prompt if players make a choices
   • You must use a WHILE loop
     • Run the main game-loop using a While loop
     • Keep the loop going if the player is alive
     • stop the loop when the game finishes
   • You must use variables that match your storyline
     • Name variables using RPG terms
     • Print variable inside the story text
     • Use terms like damage and hp to fit the story

2. Idea for story

   • Add Health Counter
     • Track health variables during combat
       • Real-time updates for player and enemy HP stats
   • Change to Sci-Fi Story
     • Focus on tactical monster-battling mechanics
       • Level-up progression through turn-based
   • Track Player Name
     • Capture custom string inputs for dialogues.
       • Prompt user to enter player name at initial setup.

3. Algorithm Constructs

   • Sequence
     • Order events from startup to battle
   • Assignment
     • Initialize basic value
       • Set hp = 10 and attack = 5.
   • Selection & Condition
     • Use evaluation blocks to create story paths
       • Check if chosen class is Warrior or Mage
   • Iteration
     • Loop combat turns until an event is triggerred.
       • Repeat action menu until an entity faint
   • Modularisation
     • Breaking code into reusable functionsn
       • import time

4. Coding Constructs

   • IF statements
     • If an particular event was triggerred, then conduct an particular order
       • Trigger a level-up sequence with if current_xp >= 100:.
   • FOR Loops
     • repeats block of code
       • for x in range(3):

5. Existing Text Based Adventure Games

   • Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
     • Sci-fi puzzle game famous for brutal logic.
       • Strengths: Iconic, highly memorable storytelling
         • Weaknesse: Difficult to understand the puzzle logic
   • Forests of Lyrica
     • fantasy text adventure focused on dungeon exploring
       • Strengths: Tense, immersive atmosphere
         • Weaknesses: Less direction make you guessing where to head

6. Self-Determined Criteria

   • Design a fast-paced game
     • Player reducing health, getting debuff by opponent
     • Make enemy counterattacks automatically in the loops
     • turn-based combat system