People new to programming often ask for suggestions of what projects they should work on and a common reply is, “Write a text adventure game!” I think there are even some popular tutorials floating around that assign this as homework…
How to Write a Text Adventure in Python Part 4: The Game Loop
This is an abbreviated version of the book Make Your Own Python Text Adventure. The end is near, we’re almost ready to play the game! We’ll finish this series by implementing the game loop and receiving input from the human…
How to Write a Text Adventure in Python Part 3: Player Action
This is an abbreviated version of the book Make Your Own Python Text Adventure. So far we’ve created a world and filled it with lots of interesting things. Now we’re going to create our player and provide ways for the…
How to Write a Text Adventure in Python Part 2: The World Space
This is an abbreviated version of the book Make Your Own Python Text Adventure. All games take place in some sort of world. The world can be as simple as a chess board or as complex as the Mass Effect…
How to Write a Text Adventure in Python Part 1: Items and Enemies
This is an abbreviated version of the book Make Your Own Python Text Adventure. Typically, a text adventure game involves the player exploring and interacting with a world to tell a story. For this tutorial, I wanted the game to…