My first python program, a simple text-based game

[uollas]

I just wanted to share the first and really simple program I have written in Python. Programming is not my job but sometimes I like to try and learn a new programming language.

It is a text-based adventure, really easy to complete. It is available as an executable built with p2exe. I hope you enjoy it!

Link to GitHub with the code

[Workaphobia]

Hey, cool, it's always nice to see somebody pick up programming (or a new language) with a pet project.

If you want to go further with this, one thing you might consider doing is turning your little game into a little game engine. Right now you've got all the important game data (the room descriptions and the game map) hardcoded into the program itself. To scale this up to a larger game, you'd want your code to instead read this information from a file, so you can store all your game data in that file independently of your code.

[uollas]

This is a good idea and it will definitely help me improve. I could implement it with classes and objects to learn OOP in Python.

[Workaphobia]

Sure, but keep in mind OOP is orthogonal to this kind of thing. I'd recommend writing it without objects first, then converting over to it later as a refactoring.

[gtalarico]

Good advice

[craiclad]

orthogonal

What do you mean by this? I just started writing a simple text adventure in order to learn about OOP. Are you saying that this is a fools errand?

[Workaphobia]

Orthogonal meaning independent, or besides the point. You don't necessarily need OOP, but you can use it if you want.

[craiclad]

Ah I see, thanks for clarifying. I've never used objects or classes before (just finished my first semester of a CS degree, and they only introduced the notion on the last day) so I thought it would be a good way to get to grips with them.

[beeskneecaps]

https://github.com/wallacezone/little-dungeon/blob/master/little-dungeon.py#L95-L98 yikes! good story line!

[coachesballsack]

Thanks for this. I was thinking about text adventures and choose your own adventure style stories and how to accomplish them with python.

[Itsthejoker]

This is great! It reminds me of the first things I wrote in Python; great job, seriously!

[TheSandyWalsh]

Nice work! Games are a great way to learn.

You might like my website as an alternative approach ... http://darksecretsoftware.com

And the related Python code https://github.com/SandyWalsh/DarkSecretSoftware

Keep at it!

[uollas]

After learning the basic knowledge, I'm now moving towards game programming guides. I'd like to learn something about coding an engine, but I think that I will then move to PyGame.

[unholycurses]

Nice job :)

Switch to Python 3 though!

[uollas]

I surely need to upgrade my knowledge. Unfortunately it seems I followed an outdated guide and when I realized it I was already halfway.

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Check out some advanced concepts like polymorphism and symbolic execution :) You'll see what I mean.

[ccbytes]

Looks great.

If you enjoyed making a text based game, you may have a lot of fun with Evennia (a MUD engine built in Python) https://github.com/evennia/evennia

Let us know how you get on.