Activities/Text dungeon

Text dungeon

A text dungeon game for literacy and numeracy. The file describing the dungeon is plain text, it can be edited with an editor such as Write.

File:Textdungeon1.xo install bundle, works on Sugar 0.88 - 0.92

The intention is that children would both play and create dungeons to develop math, literacy and problem solving skills:

Playing the game

• visualise 2D spaces (could extend to 3D or even 4D)
• navigate compass directions N E S W and relationship to right, left
• text literacy
• can include subject related content
• problem solving

Making/editing/reading a dungeon file

• all the above plus
• Cartesian coordinates
• variables
• word processing skills
• programming like skills
• create in any language

Dungeon file format

[l,room x,room y] your location

[i, item, item ....] your inventory

[u,room x, room y, item, room x, .....] location of items

[d,room x, room y, direction, locked, room x, .....] status of wall/door segments, unlisted segments are locked, doors can be asymmetric

[r,room x,room y,direction,item which unlocks,open text,closed text,text when opening] one entry for each unlockable door

For example, the Sampledungeon represented above is described by these strings

[u,0,0,lamp,0,1,key,1,1,sword,1,0,princess] #key in room 0,1 , sword in room 1,1 ,princess room 1,0

[d,0,0,0,0, 0,1,2,0, 0,1,1,1, 1,1,2,1, 1,1,3,0, 1,0,0,0] #room 0,0 north door open, room 0,1 south open, room 0,1 east door locked etc

Keyboard commands

h - help

f - forward

r - right

l - left

b - list backpack contents

p item - pick up item

d item - drop item

u item - use item