text based adventure game

text based adventure game

1. Existing Text Based Adventure Games

   • The Dreamhold
     • "The Dreamhold" is a text-based adventure game designed to introduce new players to the world of interactive fiction, featuring a rich narrative and helpful tutorials.
       • strengths
         • tutorial design
         • integrated hint-system
         • fair puzzles
       • weaknesses
         • non-friendly tone (commanding)
         • genre constraints
   • Zork
     • Zork is a classic text-based adventure game where players explore the Great Underground Empire, solve puzzles, and collect treasures through natural language commands.
       • strengths
         • historical significance
         • replicability
       • weaknessess
         • Difficult puzzles
         • Lack of guidance

2. Ideas for story

   • making the dragon the main obstacle of the game for both the village and castle path
     • The dragon is guarding the food supplies as the people starve and are unable to take down the king
   • making the main villain an evil king
     • The king prevents his people form eating food as they begin to starve
     • The main character must defeat the dragon to free the food supplies
   • providing options for weapons and potions to defeat the dragon
     • This makes the game more open to options and gives a bigger storyline
     • It is a separate interesting feature to improve the game

3. Algorithm constructs

   • sequence
     • The specific structure of which the program must follow to make the game flow
       • Start program by providing background information and then start the forever loop with the code in between. The player will either lose or win
   • assignment
     • Calculating and solving problems.
       • Text based adventure games that have logic to solve problems
   • selection and condition
     • Process of making decisions in a program based on the conditions placed
       • If/ ELSE/ ELIF statements and conditions
   • iteration
     • Repetition or loop for a part of a code. This cany be any specific number of loops or a forevr loop
       • WHILE True
       • FOR loops
   • modularsation
     • Breaking down a program into smaller independent parts making it more efficient and easier to fix
       • Creating a village pathway and a castle pathway and separating the code into different modules so that it is easier to fix the mistakes

4. coding constucts

   • IF statements
     • if statement function makes the program to decide if the condition is correct
       • IF/ ELSE? ELIF
   • FOR loops
     • Specific number of iterations the code will do. Usually a list
       • FOR fruits in fruits

5. prescribed criteria

   • Your story must have at least 10 different variables in total
     • You have 10 variables
     • Each variable used has a role in the game
     • All variables have values or are defined
   • You must have at least two choices for each input (IE. Yes | No, Left | Right, Buy | Sell)
     • Each condition or question as two options
     • Each option leads to an alternative ending
     • Each input is significant for the storyline
   • You must use a WHILE loop
     • The while loop is used at the start of the code so that it can run forever.
     • The game has a restart option for the while loop
     • The while loop should break when the game ends
   • You must use variables that match your storyline
     • Variables that are used are significant to the story line
     • Have variables to choose pathways and crossing a river
     • Have item equipment variables for both village castle pathways

6. success criteria

   • My game must be appealing
   • The game has an interesting storyline

7. Self determined criteria

   • The game has an interesting storyline
     • There is a villain to oppose the hero
     • Hero faces obstacles
     • There is an option of retreat a mental obstacle
   • My game must be appealing
     • The game has a title that pops out
     • The game uses images or ASCII art
     • The text uses colours that pop out like blue - ANSI