Dark Castle Read Me

"Dark Castle" is a very simple Zork-like text adventure game. I wrote it in order to teach myself some Python. The program was developed using Pythonista and Working Copy on an iPad.

The text interpreter's linguistics are very basic. All commands are either one word (a simple command verb like "north") or two words (simple verb-noun combinations like "attack goblin"). Adjectives are directly attached to the noun they are associated with via an underscore (e.g. "rusty_key"). There are no articles, pronouns, or direct objects.

There are only four rooms and the puzzle difficulty progresses from trivial to moderate through the course of the game. The content is appropriate for kids.

I'm very much a beginner at both Python and text adventure writing so I welcome your feedback and suggestions! Also, feel free to fork my code with new or different rooms, features, and verbs. Let me know if you do - I would love to play whatever game you create! I do ask that you credit my initial work and that you clearly state in the intro if the game is no longer appropriate for kids.

Now that I've "flaskified" the app and put it on the web my goal is to get feedback on it and then use that feedback to create an object-oriented version that is backed by a database and supports better linguistics. Any advice on object oriented techniques is much appreciated!

Source code can be found here

- Tom