Python Text Based Adventure Game Tutorial!

what's going on you guys welcome back to the channel and today's video is going to be a great beginner project I'm going to show you how to build a Choose Your Own Adventure text Adventure game in [Music] Python okay so a Choose Your Own Adventure game is basically a classic style of video game as one as the very early computer programmed games because it was so simple to create and therefore it's a really good beginner project but there's still a lot of python and object-oriented programming Concepts in it that are going to be pretty useful like understanding how to get inputs and display outputs into the console window as well as what to do with that data how to compare different answers and choose different paths and make decisions based on input basically all advanced programming is is taking different more and more complex data and determining what to do with that data so understanding the fundamentals of how to take in data and process it and make decisions based off of that is actually a really good fundamental lesson to learn and then in a text Adventure it's just fun because you get to be kind of creative and you get to kind of do some different things based on your own creativity so let's uh let's just boot this one up as a little example of what we're going to play um and let's say we want to play and let's say we want to go to the Jungle okay and we're in the rainforest and they ask us if our tour guide has been gone a while and if we want to follow him or wait here let's say we want to follow so we head off after the guide and then we there's a river there's a canoe nearby should we follow by walking or canoe let's say we're going to walk as soon as you walk into the woods a huge snake crushes you to death ending two out of six found so it may seem like a just a simple stupid little story obviously I kind of steered us directly into a quick death just to show you kind of the goal of this game um and I want to say up front a lot of what you're going to get out of this project is going to actually be based on your own creativity and where you take it because ultimately if you're just copying my adventure one for one um it's set up to be a tutorial it's not necessarily as in-depth as a full program or full project would get you so follow along let me know in the comments if you have any questions uh at any point and please be sure to leave a like on the video if you found it useful check out the channel for a ton of other great content and subscribe if you're enjoying what you're seeing all right so let's get into the tutorial and uh let's just start by asking the user for their name so to do that we'll make a variable called name and we'll just call this input um and we'll say enter your name and then we'll put it so something I like to do whenever I do inputs I end it with a space before closing out the quotation marks and you'll see now if I run this um it's going to say enter your name and it gives us one space whereas if I didn't have that space you can test it in your program if you want the name is going to be smooshed right up against the exclamation mark it's not going to look quite right so um that's why I do that but then let's make the first line after that just uh print and we'll I'm actually going to do F so in F string if you're not familiar with it if this is a really beginner project for you it's one of the um best tools to include variables with strings so uh we have that name variable and now we can just put it in these curly brackets and say Greetings name and if we want this to be grammatically correct then we'll do it this way and just so you can see why I like the F string if we were going to do it without that F before the string we'd have to do greetings and then a space and then outside of the quotation marks we'd have to do plus and then name and then if we were ever worried that this variable could be something other than um other than a string we'd also have to include this St Str so say that was age and not name and it was an integer this formatted string those curly brackets are going to turn into a string anyways whereas you would need this St Str so obviously especially by the point you get to like numerous variables in a statement um you're going to really want the formatted string so greetings name welcome to your Advent Venture there we go create a good little atmosphere here and then let's go ahead and get an input so this is going to be just like name but we'll call this variable start and uh this is going to be just the first one I use to give you an example of like choosing um so we'll say would you rather rather play the game or die and we'll use this one as it um we'll say or Parish just because it's a little less graphic maybe I don't know maybe it's more graphic um but so we'll just say if start equals play then what we're going to do is print great let's play the game and if you want to use uh quotations inside of your inside of your um individual lines of text and you use these single quotes you have two options one you could either swap these single quotes out for double quotes um or if you're just way more familiar with doing it this way and you want your strings in single quotes you can do a backs slash um single quotation and then that'll Define it as a literal um okay so we'll say let's play the game but then let's do an else which is going to be else and then we will just print lame okay you're and I'll show that now you're dead now so uh this is just an example this is the very first example of how to make a decision so what I'll show you here is we'll enter our name we'll say Pete greetings Pete welcome to your adventure would you rather play the game or perish and actually you can see I didn't put a space after uh the question there so I'll say perish lame okay now you're dead so I am going to add a space there um but what's cool is the way we wrote this is uh anything other than play is just going to kill the person right off the bat because it's like they fundamentally aren't understanding how the text game is going to work so uh this is kind of a good like vetting question to make sure the person knows how to play wants to play uh Etc so uh we'll just use that as an example to get into the game and these These are kind of the fundamentals right here of how we're going to do this so if you want to take a quick pause and try to add some um more lines before going on then this might be a good place to break but if not let's just Soldier on okay so then let's ask this second question setting equals input and we'll say want to go to the Jungle or the desert and this is kind of a common theme in text games is uh they kind of steer you in the direction of the responses they're expecting to get because they're limited by how many responses the programmer plans for so if this just said where do you want to go and we had you know Jungle Desert space uh middle of the earth like if we had all these different things programmed in it's still limited by the programmer and how many options they want to give the play player so sometimes if you're trying to limit it but you also want it to be fun to play you kind of steer the player in what their options are so what we can do from there is after our if else we can come down here and now we've got the the only way we're going to get to this rung of code um is if we do setting because what you can do anytime the code is like over so lame okay you're dead now add this quit statement and that'll finish your program so it won't go on cuz if you don't add the quit it's going to go and look for setting even if they died um so that little quit statement is useful when you're completely done with your program all right so we'll say if setting equals and we'll do the jungle first and we will say print welcome to the mighty Amazon jungle no wait we'll say rainforest but I guess it's It's a Jungle still I think your tour guide told you to wait here dot dot dot all right we'll create a little for booting and now on this second line we're going to get a response so we'll say response and it's still going to be text it's going to print out um just like that first line that was just a print statement but now we've created a second uh a second line which is going to look better in the the text game and we'll just say the response is an input that we'll say but he has been gone a long time follow him or wait here okay and now what we'll do is inside of this if statement we'll create an additional Branch so we'll say if response equals follow then we'll print oh we'll print you follow him into the trees and we'll just do that for now we'll add another layer of it later but then we'll do L if response equals weight um and then we'll print we'll print you wait another time 10 minutes and he still isn't here uh and I need that I got take my own advice and he still isn't here there we go um okay so one more thing we want to do is else and we just want to print so this means they didn't say wait or follow we just want to print invalid response you lose and then we'll um add a quit here as well so that was kind of a lot of typing because these text Adventures are kind of monotonous in terms of like putting the typing in um but now I'm just going to run it and show you what we did so we did I'm going to make that a little bigger that's better enter your name and let's say we are Indiana Jones greetings Indiana Jones welcome to your adventure would you rather play the game or perish let's play great let's play the game we're going to go to the Jungle cuz we haven't add anything for the desert yet so we go to the Jungle all right we're in the mighty Amazon rainforest your tour guide told you to wait here but he's been gone a long time follow him or wait here so we will follow and we follow him into the trees and that's all we get for now but hopefully you're understanding the methods with which we built this game um so basically we could take this if setting for the jungle and we could make an take the entire thing make an L if and now we'll do it for the desert and instead of being in the mighty Amazon rainforest we could be in the mighty Sahara Desert we could put the exact same sentence uh about waiting for the tour guide and when we follow him instead of falling him into the trees we could follow them into the dunes and when we wait we could still wait another 10 minutes and any invalid response is still a loss so this is great and then we can do another just else and then we can steal this invalid Response Code cuz this means when we asked if they would rather go to the Jungle or the desert they didn't put in Jungle or desert so really that means invalid response you lose so to look at that enter name we'll say Han Solo and Welcome to our adventure we want to play the game let's go to the desert we're in the mighty Sahara Desert now let's follow and we follow him into the dunes but if we do that again and this time went asks us where to go um enter your name Alf uh let's play the game do you want to go to the Jungle or desert what if we want to go to space invalid response you lose so this is the core concept behind any text Adventure game is just these infinitely nestable if Loops so if you're in the jungle if you choose to follow him then you could do a um another response like uh transport and you could make that an input saying you see a canoe nearby walk or take the canoe down the river and then you can make based off of that response you could say if transport is equal to walk and then do whatever here you want to um based on if they say walk and then L if transport is equal to canoe and then whatever you want to do based on if they select canoe in here and then you can always put that else in saying invalid response down here so I'm not going to do too many more layers of that um I will copy in what I had I had just a few more options in this when I was kind of demoing it in the beginning um where you kind of the one thing I put in there was the the different ways you could die in this version um I would print out what ending you had discovered so someone who was enjoying the game and really want to explore the whole thing could um could technically play it out until they found all six potential endings um so that's kind of a fun way to do it but you can see it's it really is just take a question get an input from the player back and then based on how they responded to your question that's how you want to proceed with the game so it's totally the limits of this game and how fun it is are just the limits of your creativity the basics of the programming it's an amazing way for you to get familiar with python strings get familiar with python in general how the programming reads the indentation rules as well as a lot of the if L if else statements so I really like this as a beginner uh project it's it's pretty fun and it's pretty easy um if you have any questions about how to do your own or while you're programming it you have any questions about what you saw in the video just let me know in the comments below and I'll get back to you as soon as I can if you did enjoy this video please consider leaving a like on the channel subscribe to the channel it helps me out a ton um and check out all the other great content over there if this was too easy for you then we do have a lot of really in-depth Python and Pi game game tutorials where we really create full-fledged classic games like pong space and um things like that so be sure to check the channel out for tons more like this and as always thanks for watching and good luck with your code thanks bye