Name: PYTHON TEXT ADVENTURE, WRITTEN BY CHAT! - CS50 Live, EP. 52
Uploaded: 2020-03-28T17:16:31.000Z
Duration: 2 h 37 min 38 s
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My name is I'm still in the habit of saying this is CS 50 on Twitch.

My name is Colton Ogden, in case anybody is brand new to this sort of ecosystem.

See, City is Harvard's sort of introductory computer science course, and we now have a presence on Twitter and YouTube and Facebook doing a live stream where we do from scratch implementations of projects we cover.

Well, yesterday we covered Callie Lennox, which was sort of a completely different single together where we kind of go into hacking and cyber security.

But today we're going to go more into the former category of projects.

Today, stream is focused around a text adventure in python.

Normally, I code in lieu and love to d making games, and this is a game.

But we're gonna do it in Python because I think more people are actually familiar with Python.

More people might be interested in python.

Ah, command line focused version of a game, especially for folks that are sort of Newark to programming and to python more generally speaking, on.

I want to shout out as Lee Tea is in the chat today for actually bringing this idea sort of to my attention.

In the past, she and I talked about a text adventure it she was sort of working on and creating.

And I think she actually has a text adventure that she created herself.

And she may be plugging that in the chat at some point.

Today's stream is very experimental in that we're actually gonna do everything based on what the chat has to say.

So this text adventure I'm not going to write any of this on.

And I'm hoping that the folks in the chat are participatory enough so that we have a corpus of potential avenues to explore today during the stream.

But we're going to essentially make sort of what you might have seen in a choose your own adventure style game, Um, or even the old books.

I'm gonna switch to my screen here, and I'm gonna pull up a Google image.

Time to see if they have the choose your own adventure book.

Yeah, these sort of like seventies eighties Isaac Asimov style.

These were cool because you would read these And you can actually say, you know, if you wantto perform this action, go to page like 87.

The word is off hand, but not asynchronous.

But it was sort of not sequential nonlinear, that that's the word I was looking for.

It was non linear way of reading a book and actually sort of diving into the narrative and having an effect on how it transpired ultimately is very interesting.

I used to read these as a kid, and I think these are kind of the actually sure if these came before the first sort of text adventures like, was it cold?

Siri's and I actually think I own these games, but I haven't played them.

I have been astounding number of games that haven't played, but these are text adventure games that you play at your command line or whatever, and I think some of them had a graphical interface and you would choose sort of how you want to actually play out the game.

And if you made the right choices, you would eventually win and beat the game.

And if you made a wrong choice, um, you would probably die in some gruesome faction.

Actually, Bandersnatch came out fairly recently on Netflix, and this was a, um, black Mirror episode That was a very similar style.

So choose your own adventure piece of fiction on Lee.

This was implemented in a brand new format sort of through Netflix through streaming video where using, You know, if you're using an Apple TV or using your TV, your smart TV's remote, you could actually navigate through Netflix the different options in the narrative to change the flow of the story and this, like choose your own adventure games and, like choose your own adventure books had sort of the effect of potentially leading you down gruesome and sort of savory paths.

This is gonna be an interesting I think way for us to take this format and actually apply it to, I guess, twitch and make it a community driven thing.

So We'll see how it works out, Woman As Lee plugged her thing, they're in the chat.

Of course, if you're watching this on YouTube, you will not have taken part in the creation of this.

And if you're watching this on Facebook or on YouTube, I would recommend going to twitched, at least for today's episode, because the Leighton see on Twitch is less than Facebook and YouTube and I will ideally like to be able to read people's responses so that we can keep the flow going.

Twitch dot tv slash CS 50 TV If you wantto suggest options for today's chat Eastland and has some suggestions that I'm probably not going thio plugin because I do not know what that means, Mrs.

Something to show good pictures, very good interactive fiction and Russian.

I'm gonna have to take your word on that East London That sounds like it could be a slippery slope and is missing again.

Usually my streams are about three hours long.

We may cut it a little bit shorter, Mom, it likes Whip, Streak said.

90 minutes is kind of the lower bound, three hours being the upper bound, but we'll see how we'll see how things go.

And I have actually no sort of preconceptions as to how the stream should go.

Other that, other than that it will be a interactive text adventure in Python and that you guys will be sort of leading the way.

So I have ah, visual studio code project already up and running.

It's just called text adventure in my Streams folder.

I'm gonna create a A, um, file called main dot pie.

And this will probably honestly be all that we need for today because we're not going to super crazily engineer project.

It's just gonna be basically one file with a bunch of like, textural options.

We'll have some conditional logic, and they're depending on how fancy we get with it.

Depending on how people what people want to do, we might end up tweaking things a little bit, but we'll see how things go.

It's OK main dot pie, and then python extension is recommended for this file type it is.

And I'm just going to say if name is equal to Maine, and then we'll just say made Let's have a function called Main Death Maine, whose goal in life is to print Hello, Twitch or both.

See, City lights were not streaming exclusively to twitch.

Where were streaming to a bunch of service is and I'm gonna open up my command.

I'm gonna go into Dev Streams and then text adventure.

And then if I go Python three Main dupuy, this will indeed output.

Life's not a terribly interesting adventure so far, but I think the first thing that we should do is we should decide on the title of the game.

I think this will be a nice a way for us to get some inspiration.

And so I'm gonna choose people in the chat to give me one word at a time.

This will be interesting, uh, sort of like that.

Choose a sentence in pieces, were in a start with choose the title in pieces.

So since, as Lee is the sort of star of the show today because she recommended what we do as Lee.

I want you to recommend the first word of the title of this text adventure, and hopefully there's not enough light and see it where this gets to be a little bit sluggish, But we'll see.

Good to see you as he's saying, Um, it's a lot of pressure, A lot of pressure.

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