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A Text Adventure in Python

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Exploring the Standard Library

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Jeffrey B. Armstrong

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Approximatrix, LLC

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Introduction

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  • Build a text adventure +
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    • with only the standard library
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  • Basic steps to start a game
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  • Introduce some fun Python modules
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History

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  • Text Adventures/Interactive Fiction +
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    • Popular when graphics were a “problem”
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    • Multiple commercial entities
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  • Still enjoy “cult” following
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Follow Along!

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https://github.com/ArmstrongJ/pyohio2013

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Necessities

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  • Command prompt
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  • Locations to visit
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  • Game file(s) describing our world
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  • Puzzles, items, characters, etc.
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Command Prompts

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  • cmd module +
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    • Provides “support for line-oriented command interpreters”
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    • Absurdly simple to implement
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    • Might lack some power
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Locations

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  • Room class +
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    • Needs an id, name, description
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    • List of connected rooms
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    • List of items in the room
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    • List of NPCs in the room
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Persistent Rooms

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  • pickle +
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    • Lets us serialize our rooms easily
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    • Not editable
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  • Plain ol’ text files +
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    • Hand-editable
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    • Implies some arbitrary formatting
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Persistent Rooms

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    • Allows “serializing” our rooms
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    • Hand-editable
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    • Expandable via adding fields
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Text Wrapping

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  • textwrap +
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    • Automagically handles our wrapping needs
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Data Files

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  • sqlite3 module +
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    • Simple SQL database
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    • Store the entire game in a single file
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Data Files

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    • Make a temporary, working copy of the game
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  • shutil module +
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    • For copying the clean game file to a temp file
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    • For creating our saves
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What’s Missing?

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  • Status Bar +
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    • curses module is the key
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  • NPCs
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  • Puzzles
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  • “Advanced” text parsing
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Where We’ve Been

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  • cmd
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  • json
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  • textwrap
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  • sqlite3
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  • tempfile
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  • shutil
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Want More?

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  • https://github.com/ArmstrongJ/ +
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    • An older, actual adventure named robotadventure
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  • http://www.pyweek.org/ +
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    • A reason to write your own
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  • http://www.ifcomp.org/ +
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    • If you think yours is worthy…
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Thanks!

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@fortranjeff on Twitter

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http://jeff.rainbow-100.com

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jeff@rainbow-100.com

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