Text Based Choose Your Own Adventure Game!

[lizzkats]

Description

Create an old school text-based choose your own adventure game!

Here are some examples of the types of games you can build: https://www.choiceofgames.com/category/our-games/

Here is a fun optional NPM package that you can use: https://www.npmjs.com/package/novel-js Demo: http://nanofus.github.io/novel.js/

You should be able to play this game in the browser.

Context

This goal is a fun practical application of JS.

Specifications

• [ ] The user is prompted to answer questions that determine the next part of the story. (A dragon appears! Do you fight it? Yes, No)
• [ ] Game can be played in the browser.
• [ ] User can see the history of the game from when it starts.
• [ ] You should spend some time making a beautiful and story-driven UI.
• [ ] Use CSS animations to make text appear on the screen.

Stretch:

• [ ] Game is structured as a data structure such as directed graph or linked list. (yeahhhh data structures)
• [ ] Deploy to Heroku
• [ ] Use another programming language such as Python.

Required

Do not remove these specs - they are required for all goals.

• [ ] The artifact produced is properly licensed, preferably with the MIT license.

Quality Rubric

Variables, functions, and classes/modules are clearly named: 100pts README and CONTRIBUTING files are well written: 50pts

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

[lizzkats]

@GuildCrafts/moderators can you please review this pull request?

[mantinone]

Re: Stretch Goal - There are a lot of potential uses for different data structures here. I think the overall structure of this sort of game is best represented with a Directed Graph.

[lizzkats]

@mantinone I changed it to be less specific on the data structure

[tannerwelsh]

@lizzkats it's a little light on description at the moment. Here's how you could improve it:

• Pick CLI or browser - not both. Makes the goal less ambiguous, and the outcome more clear.
• Provide an example interface and/or usage. What would a segment of the game look like?
• Link to examples, or resources for people to use when building.
• Add more technically challenging specs to the specifications. Right now the tech specs are pretty light.
• Link to or provide sample data to use as a template. It seems like this goal will involve a lot of non-coding work (i.e. coming up with the questions and the text for the game), which may be fun but takes away time from the coding challenge. Having some pre-built content to work with will help focus attention and energy to the high-value learning areas.

[lizzkats]

@tannerwelsh I updated the specs- do you have any ideas of how to make this more challenging? I think trying it in Python could be cool but I don't want to make it mandatory.

Also, i'm having trouble understanding how much of the content should be pre-built. Should I look for a JSON file containing story data?

[tannerwelsh]

Nice, looking better @lizzkats!

To make it more challenging, you could be more specific about how the UI should behave. This would be easy if it's just a series of alert() and confirm() messages, but slightly more challenging to have a running storyline, with prompts (kindof like a terminal).

You could also look at an app like https://writer.inklestudios.com/ for inspiration (or even just take a screenshot and say "build it like this").

Re: how much content. I'd say enough so that the goal could be completed without having to write your own story, but that people could add to it or use their own if they wanted to. With a little searching I came across this repo: https://github.com/jasongi/choose-your-own-adventure/. In the Story2 folder there are text files for each branch of the story, and a JPG of the flowchart that the story is based off of.

That's another thing you could do to help people jump-start: provide a few flow charts that they could rebuild as a story. That doesn't sound nearly as exciting, but maybe there are some fun ones out there.