Multiple Conversations

Sometimes we would like our characters to change their speech depending of factors throughout the game. This could be introduction text, interaction text, post-event text and so on. For this functionality we need to:

change conversation to a list of conservations
change the converation setter to append
change the talk method
create a way for the control attribute to be changed

1. change conversation attribute to a list and a index

We need a place to store the conversations and change the setter to adding the .

In charcter.py

class Character():

# Create a character

def __init__(self, char_name, char_description):

self.name = char_name

self.description = char_description

# change the conversation attribute to an empty list and add a controlling atttribute

self.conversation = None []

self.conversation_index = 0

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2. change the conversation setter to append into the new attribute

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# Set what this character will say when talked to

# change the setting of the conversation to an appending to a list

def set_conversation(self, conversation):

self.conversation = conversation

"""sets the conversation to a list of interactions

# arguments: conversation - list of entries ex [introText, secondConversation, thirdConversation]

for entry in conversation:

self.conversation.append(conversation)

# Talk to this character

def talk(self):

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3. change the talk method to speak the text in the list's index

In character.py

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def talk(self):

if self.conversation is not None:

print("[" + self.name + " says]: " + self.conversation[self.conversation_index])

else:

print(self.name + " doesn't want to talk to you")

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Extra: Make oneway passages

If we want a link to only be one way, we now need to define a new method to remove a link that we have already done.

in room.py

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def describe(self):

print( self.description )

def link_room(self, room_to_link, direction):

compliment = {

'north': 'south',

'east': 'west',

'up': 'down',

'left': 'right'

}

room_to_link.linked_rooms[compliment[direction]] = self

self.linked_rooms[direction] = room_to_link

# add a method to remove a link that exists in a room

def remove_link(self, direction):

if direction in self.linked_rooms:

del self.linked_rooms[direction]

def get_details(self):

print(self.name)

print("--------------------")

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then in main.py, remove the direction that you do not want to have linked.

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print("There are " + str(Room.number_of_rooms) + " rooms to explore.")

dining_hall.link_room(kitchen, "north")

ballroom.link_room(dining_hall, "east")

# provide the instruction to remove the link from the room. In this case removing ballroom link from the dining_hall

dining_hall.remove_link("west")

dave = Enemy("Dave", "A smelly zombie")

dave.set_conversation("Brrlgrh... rgrhl... brains...")

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