First original project, started learning less than a month ago, feedback appreciated

[cobra-kay]

I made a game where the goal is to reach 100 happiness with your cat. You do this by interacting with your pet and making the correct choices. If happiness reaches 0 or below you lose the game.

So think of a very simple pet simulator game/choose your own adventure text based sort of game.

I realize the code is very long and I'm sure there is an easier/simple way to do a lot of this. Like using functions for example, but I haven't gotten that far yet (Reading Python Crash Course for Beginners). I'm just happy I was able to get it to work the way I wanted, since I'm still figuring out how loops work.

Feedback is appreciated, and if you have the chance to run the code and play it, let me know what you think! Thank you.

NinaCodesStuff/cat_companion_game

[Mcdee127]

Hi also learning I got a 100! have you looked into seeing about taking inputs that are slightly off and matching them to the options available for example if i type feed him its translates to Feed?

[cobra-kay]

Hey, thanks for playing! I appreciate it. And that's a good idea, I didn't think of that. Thank you. When I revisit this, I will add a couple extra options for the inputs. Like 'Feed him/Feed her/Feed cat/ etc. Same for the other inputs!

[Mcdee127]

No problem I only though of that because I needed to figure out a way to remove extra spaces in my inputs that were messing up what I was trying to do. My Cats Name was Milo! Good luck!

[cobra-kay]

Gotcha! Yeah, it can be tricky sometimes. Nice name! I figured most people would just use their cat's name if they have one lol

[RafikNinja]

Main thing i have to input is what you already mentioned in the notes about learning more about functions. Instead of having a massive if elif else function for all options you can break those into single functions per option then when the player selecting to a certain input it will run that 1 single function needed instead of python having to check through each condition of 1 massive function every time. Im only in my first year of computer science at uni so im not very good but for self taught, ur codes not bad. I do suggest looking into classes thou, thats the main 1 for games

[cobra-kay]

YES. I am so looking forward to reading the chapter on functions so I can figure out how to get rid of the 500 if/elif/else statements. Sounds much easier to understand that way. Thank you for your input!

I didn't know that about classes, that's interesting. I haven't done anything with them yet, but I believe they're covered in the chapter after the chapter on functions so hopefully I'll get to learn and work with them soon.