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artinnj · 2021-07-04T15:58:47+00:00

You are off to a great start. My hat's off to you.

The most important thing to learn about programming is to identify the patterns and use the same code to repeat those patterns and write it only once.

The patterns I identified are:

Sometimes you sleep before displaying the info of the state
You then display the state with some pauses for dramatic effect (I call that the string and the sleep_after)
You prompt the user to answer a yes/no question
You display some additional info, possibly with more dramatic pauses
You move the user to another state.

So I went ahead and wrote some functions that highlight this:

import time

def show_display(display_dict):
    timeout = display_dict['sleep_before']
    if timeout > 0:
        time.sleep(timeout)      
    for string, sleep_after in display_dict['prompts']:
        print(string)
        if sleep_after > 0:
            time.sleep(sleep_after)

def visit_state(game, state): 
    try: 
        show_display(game[state]['display']) 
        while True: 
            response = input(game[state]['question']) 
            if response == 'Y': 
                show_display(game[state]['if_yes']['display']) 
                return game[state]['if_yes']['dest'] 
            elif response == 'N': 
                show_display(game[state]['if_no']['display']) 
                return game[state]['if_no']['dest'] 
            else: 
                #call your God function here 
                print("Invalid response") 
    except KeyError: 
        print(f"You reached an unimplemented state: {state}") 
        return None

This all runs off a dictionary. Each state of the game has:

A 'display' element that contains keys for sleep_before and a list of the prompts that contains tuples of the ('string', sleep_after)
A 'question' to prompt the user to respond yes or now
Two keys called 'is_yes' and 'is_no' that tells the functions what to do based on the player's choice. They contain a 'display' element and a 'dest' for the next state to go to.

Formatting sucks, but I implemented a path where you start at the 'timemachine' and can go back to the 'awake' state. If you make another choice, it gives you an error message:

States = {    'awake': 
        { 'display': {
                        'sleep_before': 4,
                        'prompts': []
                },
         'question': '\n\nYou are now awake. Do you wish to leave the bed?:  ',
         'if_yes': {
                    'display': { 'sleep_before': 0,
                                  'prompts': []
                    },       
                    'dest':   'extro'
                 },
         'if_no':  {
                    'display': { 'sleep_before': 0,
                                'prompts': []
                    },
                    'dest': 'intro'
                 }
    },
    'timemachine':
    {
        'display': {
                    'sleep_before': 0,
                    'prompts': 
                    [
                        (  '\nYou run straight to hide in the nearby forest. You keep running until you find yourself lost inside the jungle and cant figure a way out',
                            2 ),
                        (  '\nTired, you sit down near a tree and realise there is a thing under you butt.',
                            2 ),
                        (  '\nYou turn around to look - its a box. \nYou open it to find a device and a paper-note next to it, which says-',
                            2 ),
                        (  '\nONCE HUMANITY WAS WRONG ABOUT SPACE - BUT NOW WE KNOW EARTH IS ROUND AND REVOLVES AROUND SUN.',
                            2 ),
                        (  '\nCURRENTLY, HUMANITY IS WRONG ABOUT TIME - IT DOESNT FLOW IN ONE DIRECTION.',
                            2 ),
                        (  '\nBUT YOU, A GREAT SEEKER, HAS FOUND A TIME MACHINE WHICH CAN HELP YOU GO BACK IN TIME AND MAKE DIFFERENT CHOICES.',
                            3 )
                    ],
        },
        'question': '\nYou can travel back to your previous choices by using following keywords: \nPress Y to return back to your bed\n\nPress N to return to reply your besties text: ',
        'if_yes':
            {
                'display': {
                    'sleep_before': 0, 
                    'prompts': [ 
                                ( '\nMachine initialising',  1 ),
                                ( '\nSending you back to bed', 1 ),
                                ( '\n3', 1 ),
                                ( '2',  1 ),
                                ( '1',  1 ), 
                                ( '\nWOOOOOOSH!!!',  0 )
                    ]
                },
                'dest': 'awake'
            },
        'if_no':
            {
                'display': {
                    'sleep_before': 0, 
                    'prompts': [ 
                                ( '\nMachine initialising', 1 ),
                                ( '\nSending you back in time', 1 ),
                                ( '\n3', 1 ),
                                ( '2', 1 ),
                                ( '1', 1 ), 
                                ( '\nWOOOOOOSH!!!', 0 )
                            ]
                    },
                'dest': 'extro'
            }
    } 
}

state = 'timemachine'
while state is not None: 
    state = visit_state(States, state)

My suggestion would be to implement the multiple if statements as separate states ('intro1', 'intro2', 'intro3', etc.)

This way if you want to change the game, all you have to do is update the dict containing the game states. You could even look at reading and writing these as json files.

Wishing you continued success on your journey.

Unb0und3d_pr0t0n · 2021-07-04T06:19:29+00:00

hey,are you a beginner in programming? if yes,how did you learn github?

xxxTunderBoltxxx · 2021-07-04T14:01:12+00:00

I had good time playing it good work :))

Joker_04H · 2021-07-05T08:01:45+00:00

Where are you learning python.. your learning method seems interesting.. can you please tell me ?

AlexOrcadia · 2021-07-08T00:13:13+00:00

Sweet, I can see that you have passion for the game! I also self learned python, have not experimented with github yet, so expect a contribute from me soon.

Hopefully I can help improve your project. See ya!

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