python-sql-lessons/python/labs/lab_3.md

Castle Battle!

Summary

We're making a turn-based strategy game. Two sides take turns battling each other

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 store Peons (see below)

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. Add a peon with the correct name to the player's barracks. Set its job to 'nothing'
   • 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 of hit points from 1-5
   • The computer either repairs itself for that number of hit points or damages you for that number of hit points
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 you/repair itself directly. 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 your hit points by a random number between 1-3
4. Attacks decrease the enemy's hit points by a random number between 1-3
5. Create additional combatants (CPU or human) that can attack other combatants/repair themselves