The Game - Final Project

2 Make small extensions

As a little exercise to get warmed up, make some changes to the code. For example:

• change the name of a location to something different.

• change the exits – pick a room that currently is to the west of another room and put it to

the north

• add a room (or two, or three, ...)

These and similar exercises should get you familiar with the game.

3 Design Your Game

First, you should decide what the goal of your game is. It should be something along the lines of: You

have to find some items and take them to a certain room (or a certain person?). Then you can get

another item. If you take that to another room, you win.

For example: You are at Pinetree Secondary. You have to find out where your computer

class is. To find this, you have to find the front office and ask. At the end, you need to find the class

room. If you get there on time, and you have found your textbook somewhere along the way, and you

have also been to the homeroom class, then you win. And if you’ve been to the Tim Hortons more than

five times during the game, your exam mark halves.

Or: You are lost in a dungeon. You meet a dwarf. If you find something to eat that you can give to the

dwarf, then the dwarf tells you where to find a magic wand. If you use the magic wand in the big cave,

the exit opens, you get out and win.

It can be anything, really. Think about the scenery you want to use (a dungeon, a city, a building, etc)

and decide what your locations (rooms) are. Make it interesting, but don’t make it too complicated. (I

would suggest no more than 5 rooms.)

Put objects in the scenery, maybe people, monsters, etc. Decide what task the player has to master.

4 Implement the Game

Decide what classes you need to implement the game, then implement and test them.

5 Levels

The base functionality that you have to implement is:

• The game has several locations/rooms.

• The player can walk through the locations.

• There are items in some rooms. Every room can hold any number of items. Some items

can be picked up by the player, others can’t.

• The player can carry some items with him. Every item has a weight. The player can carry

items only up to a certain total weight.

• The player can win. There has to be some situation that is recognized as the end of the

game where the player is informed that he/she has won.

• Implement a command “back” that takes you back to the last room you’ve been in.

• Add at least four new commands (in addition to those that were present in the code you

got from us).

Challenge tasks:

• Add characters to your game. Characters are people or animals or monsters – anything

that moves, really. Characters are also in rooms (like the player and the items). Unlike

items, characters can move around by themselves.

• Extend the parser to recognize three-word commands. You could, for example, have a

command give bread dwarf to give some bread (which you are carrying) to the dwarf.

• Add a magic transporter room – every time you enter it you are transported to a random

room in your game.