{"id":551,"date":"2020-08-31T15:45:29","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T15:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mipython.magwebdesigns.net\/WP\/?p=551"},"modified":"2020-08-31T15:45:41","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T15:45:41","slug":"journey-with-the-python-text-adventure-empire-fable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mipython.magwebdesigns.net\/WP\/2020\/08\/31\/journey-with-the-python-text-adventure-empire-fable\/","title":{"rendered":"Journey With the Python Text Adventure Empire Fable"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

PLAY THE WORK IN PROGRESS GAME EMPIRE FABLE<\/a> HERE:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/PYTHONTEXTADVENTURE.mandrews85.repl.run<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hey everybody, I’ve seen some questions lately. I would like to share my methods (pun intended) that helped me better understand what I want to do with my programs . <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think Python is an excellent language for a text adventure. If I want to scale it up later with graphics and menus. Tkinter is an easy option or of course Pygame. For this project though I wanted to stick with pure Python. I didn’t want to have a bunch of dependencies. I want to make my own text adventure frame work eventually. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A cool Ascii font for a text adventure in Python is the Efti Wall font here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

http:\/\/patorjk.com\/software\/taag\/#p=display&h=2&v=3&f=Efti%20Wall&t=H%0A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wanted to do Ascii for the room, character and player “avatars”. I’m calling them “portraits”. Eventually it would be cool to have ascii “images” for the items too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was always into D&D (Dungeons and Dragons) and was fascinated with text adventures back in the day. So the next logical step for me would be to write a simulation that encapsulates the basic algorithm from D&D that Gary Gygax developed. I’ve simplified the THAC0 system a little bit but a more faithful reproduction would be cool to do. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve refactored this many many times now looking for the simplest, logical way to execute this. For player movement. I’ve come up with a “grid” method. The grid method passes the player in with a list of “rooms”. The rooms are the areas of the game. Rooms are stored as objects in a 1 dimensional array. Each room has an x and y positional attribute. The grid method loops through the list of rooms. If the players position X and position Y attributes = the rooms position x and position y attributes. The player see’s that rooms status. I’m always looking for more efficient ways of doing things though. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let’s get to the code.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

GAME CLASS<\/strong>:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Below, we initialize the game class. The other objects, Player, Rooms, Characters and Items are imported into the “main.py” file. With the grid method we are passing the player object in with a list of rooms. We then loop through the rooms. If the players pos x and pos y = any room pos x and pos y, that rooms status is printed. If enemies are in the room.enemies list the game.battle_options() method is triggered. Enemies position x and position y = the rooms position x and position y.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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from Player import *
\nfrom Room import *
\nfrom Character import *
\nfrom Item import *
\n
\nclass Game():
\n  def __init__(self):
\n    self.name = "GAME"
\n
\n  def status(self):
\n    print(self.name + " IS INITIALIZED")
\n
\n
\n  def grid(self,player):
\n
\n    
\n    print("INITIALIZE GRID")
\n    rooms = &#91;start_room]
\n
\n    for room in rooms:
\n      if player.pos_x == room.pos_x and player.pos_y == room.pos_y:
\n
\n        room.status()
\n
\n        for enemy in room.enemies:
\n          enemy.pos_x = room.pos_x
\n          enemy.pos_y = room.pos_y
\n
\n          if enemy.pos_x == player.pos_x and enemy.pos_y == player.pos_y:
\n            while enemy.hp >= 0:
\n              self.battle_options(player,enemy)
\n              
\n
\n    ###   PLAYER OPTIONS ON TEH GRID
\n    self.options(player)
\n 
\n
\n  def options(self,player):
\n    print("MOVE: (N), (E), (S), (W)")
\n    ###   PLAYER USER INPUT 
\n    user_input = input(" >>> ").upper()
\n
\n    if user_input == "N":
\n      player.pos_y += 1
\n    elif user_input == "E":
\n      player.pos_x += 1
\n    elif user_input == "S":
\n      player.pos_y -= 1
\n    elif user_input == "W":
\n      player.pos_x -= 1
\n    else:
\n      print("INVALID CHOICE")
\n    return
\n
\n  def battle_options(self,attacker,defender):
\n
\n    ###  TO HIT ROLL PHASE
\n  
\n    attacker_roll = attacker.roll_die(100)
\n    defender_roll = defender.roll_die(100)
\n
\n    if attacker_roll >= defender_roll:
\n      print(attacker.name + " HITS " + defender.name)
\n      defender.hp -= attacker.dmg
\n    else:
\n      print(attacker.name + " MISSES " + defender.name)<\/div><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\n\n<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Now lets create our objects that will appear in the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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PLAY THE WORK IN PROGRESS GAME EMPIRE FABLE HERE: https:\/\/PYTHONTEXTADVENTURE.mandrews85.repl.run Hey everybody, I’ve seen some questions lately. I would like to share my methods (pun intended) that helped me better understand what I want to do with my programs . I think Python is an excellent language for a text adventure. If I want to scale it up later with graphics and menus. Tkinter is an easy option or of course Pygame. For this project though I wanted to stick with pure Python. I didn’t want to have a bunch…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mipython.magwebdesigns.net\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mipython.magwebdesigns.net\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mipython.magwebdesigns.net\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mipython.magwebdesigns.net\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mipython.magwebdesigns.net\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mipython.magwebdesigns.net\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":553,"href":"http:\/\/mipython.magwebdesigns.net\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions\/553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mipython.magwebdesigns.net\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mipython.magwebdesigns.net\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mipython.magwebdesigns.net\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}