Text Adventure Game/Engine. Zork style input
This Engine is Created from a bare minimum framework provided for the Programming module I have tanken at University. The focus of this is the Input handelling which implements Natural Language Parsing. I designed the algorithm to Feel as intuitive as the input of Zork.
A full breakdown of the input algorithm is written in the Assignment 1 Report file however the short explanation is as follows:
Single word commandsare found by the splitting process which is explaned below, which will assign a command enumeration. This enum is run through a Switch block that finds the correct function to run.
Scentences go through a more complex system however. The scentence is split into simgle words by removing spaces and punctuation, then all words that immediately removable are removed such as on, at and my, followed by removing splitter words like and and the to find what words could be connected such as two part item names like glass bottle and finding exit names and commands from set listsfor the next stage. We are left with only Commands, exits and items at this point.
Commands currently in the game with matching functions are Undefined Help Inventory Look Move Take Use ERROR.
The words left over are the checked against all exit names like North, East, In, Up, all item names either in the current room or in the player's inventory and then checking for strings in a commands dictionary which let us assign an enumeration for a command. The dictionary matching strings and command enums looks like this:
Dictionary<string, CommandType> VerbCommands = new Dictionary<string, CommandType>
{
{ "use", CommandType.Use }, { "take", CommandType.Take }, { "look", CommandType.Look },
{ "move", CommandType.Move }, { "walk", CommandType.Move }, { "go", CommandType.Move }, { "help", CommandType.Help }
};
As you can see some commands are specified multiple times like Move for which move, walk and go all mean the same thing. Finally, once we have these formatted commands, they run through a switch block which will attempt to run the functions for the specified command with the item names and exits found, failing this, a message is written to the console saying that the command was no understood followed by a sarcastic comment.
The project on branch JSON-Story will load a story from a json file that can be created in my Level Editor.
I made sure to keep the code well commented and presentable, You will see that algorithms and methods are also explaned in comments allongside the code.