24: OOP Game

You are now going to complete a reworking of your game into an OOP version. What I've done is created the structure for you using classes and objects, but I've left blank what goes in each room. Your job is to take this and fill in your code from your first game but keep the structure and make it all work with what I have.

You will need to study this code very carefully as it is convoluted on purpose. I am making it more convoluted that it needs to be so that you can have some practice studying code like this. You can then do this exercise and "refactor" it, which is where you take code that is not very good and attempt to improve it by redesigning it or reworking it to be better.

I recommend that you take this code very slowly and work it in chunks. Do not type all of this in in one giant go expecting it to work the first time. Nobody who is a working professional programmer writes mountains of code in one shot and expects it to work. The majority of programmers I know write their code in tiny chunks and confirm that each little chunk works as they code, by running it.

The Code

Remember this code is longer than almost anything you've encountered and it is more complicated. You are expected to take some time with this and figure out how it all works! If you attempt this and then give up after 30 minutes you are not doing it right. This code could potentially take anywhere from two days to a week.

If you want an additional challenge then you can attempt to refactor the code to be cleaner. As I said before, this code if convoluted on purpose so you can try to improve it, and so you can try to understand OOP code like this. If you want to test your understanding of the code, then try to clean it up and make it simpler.

View Source file code.js Only

const readline = require('readline-sync');

class Game {
  constructor () {
    this.hp = Math.floor(Math.random() * 10) + 1;
  }

  say(prompt) {
      console.log(prompt);
  }

  die(message) {
      this.say(message);
      process.exit(1);
  }

  ask(prompt) {
      console.log(`[[You have ${this.hp} hit points.]]`);
      if(this.hp <= 0) {
          this.die("You died!");
      } else {
          return readline.question(prompt + ' ');
      }
  }

  addRoom(room) {
    this[room.name] = room;
    room.game = this;
  }

  play(name) {
    this[name].enter();
  }

  hit(amount) {
    this.hp -= amount;
  }
}

class Room {
  constructor (name) {
    this.name = name;
  }

  enter() {
    console.log("Implement me!");
  }
}

class Door extends Room {
    enter() {
      // they have to open the door to get the gold
      // what kind of puzzle will they solve?
    }
}

class Spider extends Room {
  enter() {
    // they enter here, and the spider takes 10 hit points
    // if they live then they can run away
  }
}

class Gold extends Room {
  enter() {
    // end of the game they win if they get the gold
  }
}

class Rope extends Room {
  enter() {
    // they are at the bottom of the well
    // they can go through the door to the gold
    // or go take a wrong turn to the spider
  }
}

class Well extends Room {

  enter() {
    this.game.say("You are walking through the woods and see a well.");
    this.game.say("Walking up to it and looking down you see a shiny thing at the bottom.");
    let next = this.game.ask("What do you do?");

    if(next === "climb") {
        this.game.say("You climb down the rope.");
        this.game.rope.enter();
    } else if(next === "jump") {
        this.game.say("Yikes! Let's see if you survive!");
        this.game.hit(5);
        this.game.rope.enter();
    } else {
        this.game.say("You can't do that here.");
        this.game.well.enter();
    }
  }
}


let game = new Game();
game.addRoom(new Well("well"));
game.addRoom(new Rope("rope"));
game.addRoom(new Gold("gold"));
game.addRoom(new Spider("spider"));
game.addRoom(new Door("door"));
console.log(Object.entries(game));
game.play("well");

What You Should See

When you run this code without any of your modifications you should see this as an output:

$ node oop_game.js
You are walking through the woods and see a well.
Walking up to it and looking down you see a shiny thing at the bottom.
[[You have 10 hit points.]]
What do you do? climb
You climb down the rope.
$ node ex24-oop-game/code.js
You are walking through the woods and see a well.
Walking up to it and looking down you see a shiny thing at the bottom.
[[You have 4 hit points.]]
What do you do? jump
Yikes! Let's see if you survive!
$ node ex24-oop-game/code.js
You are walking through the woods and see a well.
Walking up to it and looking down you see a shiny thing at the bottom.
[[You have 8 hit points.]]
What do you do? asdfsaf
You can't do that here.
You are walking through the woods and see a well.
Walking up to it and looking down you see a shiny thing at the bottom.
[[You have 8 hit points.]]
What do you do? jump
Yikes! Let's see if you survive!