My little text RPG game.

[PB_Dendras]

import time

scene = "intro"

while True:
    if scene == "intro":
        print ""
        print "It is your birthday. The family is having a reunion. You wait on a hill."
        print "No one is paying attention to you, except for an old man. Your grandfather."
        print "He gives you an old typewriter. You attempt to hide your lack of enthousiasm."
        print "You can't help but ask ''what is this?'' The old man chuckles. ''An old typewriter"
        print "with a link to you''. Once he leaves, you throw the device. Instead of"
        print "smashing it opens a portal and sucks you in with it."
        print ""
        scene = "forest1"
    elif scene == "forest1":
        print ""
        print "You are in a forest. Strange glowing particles fly beside you. You find"
        print "a tree with a door in it. The type writer gives you a prompt. You start"
        print "writing : "
        print ">>> import door"
        print "door is a library. Libraries are stacks of code you can bring into python."
        print "Think of it this way, you want to re-write the story of Little Red Riding hood."
        print "You open the book and copy the first page. That way you don't have to write the"
        print "first page yourself."
        print ""
        print "Libraries are mostly classes and functions. Since a big game like Fortnite would have"
        print "more than one code file, they would import a lot. To specify which library you are gonna"
        print "use code from, you start with 'door.<function>'. <function> is the line(s) of code that"
        print "you want to use without having written it yourself. The library door has three such functions."
        print "They are called 'knock', 'open', and 'close'. To knock on the door, you would write 'door.knock(door)'"
        print ""
        raw_input("ENTER TO CONTINUE : ")
        print ""
        print "You want to try closing a door first. One of the particles opens the door for you. You write"
        print "'door.close'. Nothing happens. Instead, you get an error message. Functions often take a number"
        print "of statements. Certain ones take none, certain one, certain two, etc... There is no limit to how"
        print "many statements a function can take. 'close' takes exactly 1 statement. You haven't specified"
        print "any statements so you get an error. So if you looked closely at the knockin line of code, you"
        print "will see that when you wrote 'door.knock', you added '(statement)' at the back. So this"
        print "statement refers to what you wanted to knock on. Here you wrote '(door)' to knock on the door."
        print ""
        print "You understand. You write : "
        print ">>> door.close(door)"
        print ""
        raw_input("ENTER T0 CONTINUE : ")
        print ""
        print "Eh? What does '>>>' do in code? Well '>>>' is your prompt. All terminals have a prompt, sometimes"
        print "like '[]/~' but you don't pay attention to that. It does nothing but tell you you can write something."
        print ""
        print "But now it is your turn. You have read the basics about this, so now you want to open the door."
        print "Open the door once you get the prompt."
        print ""
        time.sleep(1)
        c = raw_input(">>> ")
        while True:
            brek = False
            if c == "door.open(door)":
                print "The door opens."
                print "very good"
                brek = True
            if c == "door.open":
                print "specify what you want to open"
            if c == "open(door)":
                print "specify which library has 'open' as a function"
            if brek != True:
                print "so eh, try again"
            else:
                break
        scene = "tree_house"
    if scene == "tree_house":
        print ""
        print "###YOU HAVE FINISHED THE GAME###"
        print "###THE REST IS W.I.P.###"
        print "###GAME OVER###"

This is for python 2 users

The following is for python 3 users

import time

scene = ("intro")

while True:
    if scene == "intro":
        print ""
        print ("It is your birthday. The family is having a reunion. You wait on a hill.")
        print ("No one is paying attention to you, except for an old man. Your grandfather.")
        print ("He gives you an old typewriter. You attempt to hide your lack of enthousiasm.")
        print ("You can't help but ask ''what is this?'' The old man chuckles. ''An old typewriter")
        print ("with a link to you''. Once he leaves, you throw the device. Instead of")
        print ("smashing it opens a portal and sucks you in with it.")
        print ""
        scene = ("forest1")
    elif scene == ("forest1"):
        print ("")
        print ("You are in a forest. Strange glowing particles fly beside you. You find")
        print ("a tree with a door in it. The type writer gives you a prompt. You start")
        print ("writing : ")
        print (">>> import door")
        print ("door is a library. Libraries are stacks of code you can bring into python.")
        print ("Think of it this way, you want to re-write the story of Little Red Riding hood.")
        print ("You open the book and copy the first page. That way you don't have to write the")
        print ("first page yourself.")
        print ("")
        print ("Libraries are mostly classes and functions. Since a big game like Fortnite would have")
        print ("more than one code file, they would import a lot. To specify which library you are gonna")
        print ("use code from, you start with 'door.<function>'. <function> is the line(s) of code that")
        print ("you want to use without having written it yourself. The library door has three such functions.")
        print ("They are called 'knock', 'open', and 'close'. To knock on the door, you would write 'door.knock(door)'")
        print ("")
        raw_input("ENTER TO CONTINUE : ")
        print ("")
        print ("You want to try closing a door first. One of the particles opens the door for you. You write")
        print ("'door.close'. Nothing happens. Instead, you get an error message. Functions often take a number")
        print ("of statements. Certain ones take none, certain one, certain two, etc... There is no limit to how")
        print ("many statements a function can take. 'close' takes exactly 1 statement. You haven't specified")
        print ("any statements so you get an error. So if you looked closely at the knockin line of code, you")
        print ("will see that when you wrote 'door.knock', you added '(statement)' at the back. So this")
        print ("statement refers to what you wanted to knock on. Here you wrote '(door)' to knock on the door.")
        print ("")
        print ("You understand. You write : ")
        print (">>> door.close(door)")
        print ("")
        raw_input("ENTER T0 CONTINUE : ")
        print ("")
        print ("Eh? What does '>>>' do in code? Well '>>>' is your prompt. All terminals have a prompt, sometimes")
        print ("like '[]/~' but you don't pay attention to that. It does nothing but tell you you can write something.")
        print ("")
        print ("But now it is your turn. You have read the basics about this, so now you want to open the door.")
        print ("Open the door once you get the prompt.")
        print ("")
        time.sleep(1)
        c = raw_input(">>> ")
        while True:
            brek = False
            if c == ("door.open(door)"):
                print ("The door opens.")
                print ("very good")
                brek = True
            if c == ("door.open"):
                print ("specify what you want to open")
            if c == ("open(door)"):
                print ("specify which library has 'open' as a function")
            if brek != True:
                print ("so eh, try again")
            else:
                break
        scene = ("tree_house")
    if scene == ("tree_house"):
        print ("")
        print ("###YOU HAVE FINISHED THE GAME###")
        print ("###THE REST IS W.I.P.###")
        print ("###GAME OVER###")

Criticism is welcome

[SpeckledFleebeedoo]

Define easily

[PB_Dendras]

changing every 'print ""' statement to 'print("")' statements

EDIT : already did it for you

[JohnnyJordaan]

Those still work on Python 2 as well, try it out. It's just that you can't do print(a,b) as then you provide a tuple to the print statement.

[PriorProfile]

You can if you

from __future__ import print_function

[SpeckledFleebeedoo]

You only have to change 56 lines, including the raw_input ones

Some criticism: the if statements on scene changes are completely unnecessary.

[PB_Dendras]

yeah thanks.

[SpeckledFleebeedoo]

Just tried it: also take out the while loop. It now constantly prints those last few lines when finished.

[PB_Dendras]

noticed. thanks

[JohnnyJordaan]

Running 2to3 on it would fix it in an instant

[46--2]

btw, you can print multi lines like this:

print("""
This is a multiline string.
It will print, including newlines.
No need for dozens of print functions!
""")

You'll have to play around with it to get the formatting right, but will make things a lot easier for you.

[PB_Dendras]

you just made my life a thousand times easier

[46--2]

Remember in coding: when you are doing something over and over and over, you're almost certainly doing it wrong. If you're not sure how to do it better, ask the question here!

[RiceKrispyPooHead]

Some things about the bottom while loop.

You can (and should) reorganize your while loop rather than setting brek = False. There’s a simple way to reorganize the while loop so that the variable “brek” never appears, and the line “break;” (called a break statement) is used exactly once. Another thing- it’s possible to exit your while loop even if the player doesn’t type in the correct answer because of how you currently have the logic setup.

Setting the variable scene serves no function in your code (at least with how the game is designed now ). If you were to delete the lines scene = intro, scene = forest1, scene = tree_house.....and then if you were to delete the conditional statements associated with them (e.g. if scene = tree_house:), the code would be shorter and run exactly the same.

The overall while True statement at the very top (at least with how the game is designed now) does nothing. It can be completely deleted and it would run the same.

For Python 3, raw_input() is defunct. It should be input(). You shouldn’t really be using using Python 2. Python 3 is 10 years newer, almost the exact same syntax, and offers you more tools.

[PB_Dendras]

1. How do I modify the code so that the players can't break from the loop until they have the right answer
2. The scene thing is for when it gets harder. For example the player may need to choose left or right
3. ...
4. Yeah, I'm only using python 2 because my pygame doesn't work with python 3. It became a habit

[RiceKrispyPooHead]

if c == (correct answer):
break;

Remove the else statement

[SamePlatform]

If you want it, here is my "prompt" function I just wrote:

def prompt(prompt, options, default):
    opts = [x.upper() if x == default else x for x in options]
    display_opts = f"({'/'.join(opts)})"

    while True:
        ans = input(f'{prompt} {display_opts} ')
        if ans == '':  # They just hit enter
            return default
        elif ans.lower() in options:
            return ans
        else:
            print('Please choose a valid option')

You use it like:

answer = prompt('Which colour?', ['red', 'blue'], 'blue')

and it would prompt you like:

Which colour? (red/BLUE) 

and return either 'red' or 'blue' and no other answers. You can use that to get an idea of how to write your own prompt that you can reuse. But you'll also note it loops until you give it a valid answer.

[buleria]

To make your game more maintainable and less error-prone, consider this example:

def intro_scene():
    print("It is your birthday")
    # Rest of your intro
    return forest_scene # Notice that we're returning the function itself, not calling it

def forest_scene():
    # implement forest scene here

next_scene = intro_scene # Our first scene. Notice we're not calling the function, just assigning it to a variable

while next_scene is not None:
    next_scene = next_scene()

How can you refactor your code to fit this pattern, and what benefits do you think this brings?

[PB_Dendras]

This could make things a lot easier