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Python Python Collections (Retired) Dungeon Game Building the Game: Part 1

matthias papsdorf
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matthias papsdorf
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dungeon game for review - any tips are welcome

This should hopefully run fine. Any tips are welcome. As for player, I kind of felt the urge of using a player class but I wait till we do classes in the course.

Question about the convention, a function that is only called within a specific function is having an underscore in it's name? I am not quite sure what the standard conventions are.

Adding my game below:

import random

CELLS = [(0, 0), (0, 1), (0, 2),
         (1, 0), (1, 1), (1, 2),
         (2, 0), (2, 1), (2, 2)]


def get_locations():
  available_coords = CELLS[:]
  pos = ()
  def _do_pos():
    pos = available_coords.pop(available_coords.index(random.choice(available_coords)))
    return pos
  monster = _do_pos()
  door = _do_pos()
  start = _do_pos()

  return monster, door, start



def move_player(player, move):
  x = player[0]
  y = player[1]
  if move == "LEFT":
      x -= 1
  elif move == "RIGHT":
      x += 1
  elif move == "UP":
      y += 1
  elif move == "DOWN":
      y -= 1
  player = (x, y)
  return player


def get_moves(player):
  MOVES = ['LEFT', 'RIGHT', 'UP', 'DOWN']
  if player[0] == 0:
      MOVES.remove("LEFT")
  if player[0] == 2:
      MOVES.remove("RIGHT")
  if player[1] == 0:
      MOVES.remove("DOWN")
  if player[1] == 2:
      MOVES.remove("UP")
  return MOVES


monsterpos, doorpos, playerpos = get_locations()

while True:
  print("Welcome to the dungeon!")
  print("You're currently in room {}".format(playerpos))  # fill in with player position
  print("You can move {}".format(get_moves(playerpos)))  # fill in with available moves
  print("Enter QUIT to quit")

  move = input("> ")
  move = move.upper()

  if move == 'QUIT':
    break

  if move in get_moves(playerpos):
      playerpos = move_player(playerpos, move)
  elif move not in get_moves(playerpos):
      print("You cannot go there")

  if playerpos == doorpos:
      print("you have won, yay!")
      input("Press any key")
      quit()
  elif playerpos == monsterpos:
      print("ZONK!!! You're dead")
      input("Press any key")
      quit()
  else:
      continue

1 Answer

Kenneth Love
STAFF
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Functions starting with an underscore are typically thought of as being private. Most of the time you'll actually see this applied more to methods in a class than functions in functions or functions in a module.