Captain Code: Unleash Your Coding Superpower with Python

Chapter 18Keep Going

You now have a functioning (albeit limited) text-based adventure game. Using libraries and functions, lists and dictionaries, and classes, you have everything you need to really build a complete and comprehensive game. In this chapter, we’ll give you some ideas about where to go next and pointers to help you get there.

Health and Lives

Many games track player lives. When players die, they lose a life and continue playing. The game is over when no lives are left. Our player class has properties and methods for using lives, and you can use them in your game.

Newer games also track player health and often combine doing so ...