The Last Project.

Here in my final term at Oregon State University, I finally got a glimpse of what my final task shall be. Me, along with two other students, will be coming together in order to create a Text-Based Adventure game. While choosing my top options, I saw this one and really wanted to try it. It’s actually something that I had no idea how to do. I didn’t want to let that stop me, though. I really like the idea of our last project being something that we want to learn more about, something that we may have no prior knowledge about. After just doing a small bit of research on the topic, I learned that there is so much information available on it. This reassured me in taking on this project and am excited to start learning about it.

Early tasks

After drawing up our Team Standards, our team was able to sit down and think about what we would like to do. So far, we have come up a game where our main character has lost his memory. The character thinks he is fighting to help the King but it turns out that he IS the king. The main boss tries to trick the user into loosing his “memory” throughout the game, if he succeeds, the user has to start over. There will be pickups and magic spells the user can collect. The user will input directions that tell the game what they want to do. The game will then take actions based on what the user says.

First coding task

My first task for the group is to create the code that will display the prompt for the user. For this task, I found it somewhat easy to come up with a simple “What do you want to do now?” input function in Python. Even though is was a simple task, I really like the idea of taking this project one step at a time. Having wrote up our Project Plan, it makes easy to see what we will be needing to work on in a specific week. As long as we can stay on schedule, it should be a nice little adventure to the end!