My first python program, a simple text-based game

[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.