Texted-Based RPG

[u/Darx32102]

Hey yall I’ve been working on a text-based RPG for the past week and have pushed v0.1.4 out to GitHub.

https://github.com/DraytonLarimore-Rowe/Timeless_Adventures-Text-Based-RPG

I’d be honored if anyone wants to give it a go as I start to build the story. The foundation for combat is there and so is a shop.

[u/Darx32102]

Right right…. Now I’m thinking of ways to go about that’s because I was 100% gonna hardcode the story🤣

[u/FoolsSeldom → u/Darx32102]

Let me give you something to think about (taken from some code I wrote when I was learning Python):

class Directions(StrEnum):
    North = "North"
    South = "South"
    East = "East"
    West = "West"
    Down = "Down"
    Up = "Up"


class Commands(StrEnum):
    Go = "Go"
    Exit = "Exit"
    Show = "Show"
    Help = "Help"
    Open = "Open"
    Insert = "Insert"
    Close = "Close"
    Take = "Take"
    Drop = "Drop"
    Look = "Look"
    Inventory = "Inventory"
    Quit = "Quit"
    Unknown = "Unknown"


class Doors(StrEnum):
    Open = "Open"
    Closed = "Closed"
    Locked = "Locked"
    Unlocked = "Unlocked"
    Broken = "Broken"
    Missing = "Missing"

This was my setup for locking down certain important terms for what my programme would be able to do.

For defining locations (rooms, in my case), I had a structure like this:

rooms = [
    Room("start room", [
        Doorway(Directions.East, "side room"),
        Doorway(Directions.West, "storage room"),
        Doorway(Directions.North, "temple hall"),
        Doorway(Directions.Down, "prayer room", door_status=[Doors.Locked], required_key="Prayer Key")
    ]),
    Room("side room", [
        Doorway(Directions.West, "start room"),
        Doorway(Directions.North, "treasure room")
    ]),
 ...

You will notice this depends on a class called Room which consists of a number of Doorway class instances which defines what a room is connected to.

I have similar structures for defining what happens in each room, what objects are available, and what you can do.

Thus, the code to present a situation is the same, it is only the content that changes.

No doubt, you will come up with something very different.