Author: Jason Xu, Ashley Kim, and Will Ozeas
Design: Our game is a puzzle-text adventure, where you must use information from previous runs of the game to survive a zombie-infested lab! Further spoiler details are in WALKTHROUGH.txt.
Text Drawing: Our text drawing is computed at runtime. This choice was made to have user's input also render on screen in real-time, making the game more interactive.
The text to be rendered is first parsed from respective dist/room#.txt file and each portion of the text is saved as a separate field in the current_room struct. (Checkout RoomParser.hpp and RoomParser.cpp) Then the function renderWrappedText() is called to render each portion of the text at a defined location on the screen. (Checkout TextRendering.hpp and TextRendering.cpp)
Choices: Every screen is stored as a .txt file. Each file starts with the main text, then uses brackets to denote a choice, followed by a file name in parentheses. Our code will parse this text automatically and gives us a vector of choices to render and a map of text entries to file names, and if matching text is entered, the corresponding file is loaded.
Screen Shot:
At each screen, you may type in text and then hit enter to move rooms. Numbers indicate choices, but that's not all you can type...
- User Input + real-time render of user input text on screen
- Multi-line auto text wrap on screen
- Non-linear storyline with special command inputs
- Text parsing program to separate main text, choice options, and filename to be called upon selection of a choice
- Rendering functions that support multiple font families, sizes, color, and location, as well as text fade-in.
- A secret ending, if you can find it!
Sources:
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Roboto Medium font from https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Roboto/about?query=roboto
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Rubik Dirt font from rom https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Rubik+Dirt/about?query=rubik
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Patua One font from https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Patua+One/about?query=patua+one
Reference:
Code file itself also has annotations for specific parts and references we used.
This game was built with NEST.