GameJam 2
Raven's Call
Gameplay Programming
Requirements
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Narration with choices
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Use a pre-existing program base (not shown here)
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Made in Visual Studio in C#, for the console
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Theme: Bounty Hunter
Intentions
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Make a simple program with .txt files
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Make a long story with two narrations and multiple endings
Members
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My role: Gameplay programming
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Hélène Poulin: Narration
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Julien Nasielski: Narration
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Mylène Guindon: Bridge between Narration and Gameplay programming
Programmation - Main Program
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The .txt files are loaded in the program from the ListeContainers.txt file.
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The game starts, giving the choice of the story to the player.
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The whole story is in a eight lines long While function that reads the code name of the next story page and display it. If the story is over, it exits this While.
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If the player wants to restart, the game does. Else, the game displays a closing line before closing.
This is the Restart function from step 4
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It asks the player if he wants to restart, end returns the answer boolean to the While
Programmation - Creation of the containers
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This function creates the description files and the choices files with the code names in the .txt file.
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When called, this function writes the choices on the screen.
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It then makes the player enter an existing choice number before continuing in the main program.
Programmation - Creation of the containers
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This creates the choices and their IDs to go to.
Files - Folder
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The .txt files are in a folder in the program.
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The folder contains 211 files with the choices (ending with c) and the narration (ending with d) written
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The ListeContainers.txt is also there
Files - ListeContainers.txt
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This file contains all the names of the game files, without the last letter since the program adds it
Narration - Two stories
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The game has two stories that are interconnected
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Wolf's story is about an agent of Raven who's mission is the assassination of someone named Moose
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Moose's story is about a man trying to flee the country to save his life from a bounty hunter
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There are many endings to this story. If the player plays both stories, he should be able to make the right choices at the end of Raven's Call
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Wolf's story - First text
Moose's Story - First text
Description of the game
Ameliorations I'd like to make
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I would have liked to clean the name codes from the texts, but we use them as debug help
Challenges and solutions
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The biggest challenge was to understand how to make this a simple code, and not a never ending page. I had to make a lot of research, to talk with my teacher many times, and to think about the logic of the story's structure with my team to make it work