data-science-notes/castle.md

Castle Battle!

Classes

Player

• This is a two Player game (one human and one computer)
• Each Player has a Barracks (see below)
• Each Player starts with 10 hit points

Barracks

• A Barracks can generate a Peon (see below)
• A Barracks keeps a list of its generated peons

Peon

• A Peon has a name
• A Peon has a job, one of the following:
  • nothing (this is the initial value upon creating a peon)
  • repair
  • attack

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Flow of game:

1. At the start of player's turn, ask what the user wants to do (one of the following)
   • Create a peon
     1. If chosen, ask what the peon's name should be
     2. Have the player's barracks generate a peon with the correct name
   • Select a peon
     1. If chosen, ask which peon they want to select
     2. Once a peon is chosen, ask what action the peon should perform
        • attack
          • If chosen, set the peon's job to attack
        • repair
          • If chosen, set the peon's job to repair
2. Once this is complete, loop through the peons in the player's barracks
   • If a peon's job is to repair, increase the user's hit points by one
   • If a peon's job is to attack, decrease the computer's hit points by one
3. Once this is complete, start the computer's turn
   • Choose a random number from 0-2
   • 0: computer does nothing
   • 1: computer repairs itself
     • increase computer hit points by two
   • 2: computer attacks player
     • decrease player hit points by two
4. Evaluate the state of the game:
   • If the computer has 0 or fewer hit points, you win
   • If you have 0 or fewer hit points, the computer wins
   • If you both have 0 or fewer hit points, it's a tie
   • If you both have more than 0 hit points, start player's turn over again (step 1)

Hungry for more?

1. Make it so that the computer doesn't randomly attack/repair/do nothing itself. Instead, it will act like a player and either create a peon or, if a peon already exists, select a random peon and tell it to either attack or repair
2. Make the 2nd player optionally be either the computer (random decisions) or another human
3. Repairs increase hit points a random number between 0-3
4. Attacks decrease hit points a random number between 0-3