📖 Finishing the Rest of the Story

📖 Finishing the Rest of the Story 📖 Finishing the Rest of the Story

Ahh, the final chapter!

Lesson Steps

Have students navigate to the Finishing the Rest of the Story section.
Allow students some time to enter in rest of their story 'chapters', complete with choices.
Remind them to code an end-game scene so the player knows they've reached the true end of the story.
Students will share their Repl.it CYOA projects with you and each other. This is a great opportunity for peer assessment and feedback.

Keyboard Guide

Finishing the Rest of the Story

Stuck? Copy & Paste the Code into Repl.it

class TreeNode:
  def __init__(self, story_piece):
    self.story_piece = story_piece
    self.choices = []

  def add_choices(self, choice_a, choice_b):
    self.choices.append(choice_a)
    self.choices.append(choice_b)

  def tell_story(self):
    story_node = self
    print(story_node.story_piece)
    while len(story_node.choices) !=0:
      answer = int(input("Enter 0 or 1 to continue the story: "))
      if answer == 0 or answer == 1:
        choice = story_node.choices[answer]
        story_node = choice
        print(story_node.story_piece)
      else:
        print("Invalid answer! Try again!")

story_root = TreeNode("You awake in an empty room. There is a phone booth in the middle. \nDo you: \n 0 ) Investigate the phone booth. \n 1 ) Leave it alone.\n")
current_node = story_root
choice_a = TreeNode("You enter the phone booth and look around. You see a button that says 1980 and a button that says 3000. \nDo you: \n 0 ) Press 1980. \n 1 ) Press 3000.\n")
choice_b = TreeNode("You decide to leave the phone booth alone. You live out the rest of your life in boredom.\n")
current_node.add_choices(choice_a, choice_b)

current_node = choice_a
choice_a = TreeNode("You travel back to 1980 and get stuck in an arcade.\n")
choice_b = TreeNode("You travel forward to 3000 and see that not much has changed but people live underwater. \nDo you: \n 0 ) Swim into the city.\n 1 ) Stay in the phone booth.\n")
current_node.add_choices(choice_a, choice_b)

current_node = choice_b
choice_a = TreeNode("You swim into the city and meet some merpeople.\n Do you: \n 0 ) Try to talk to them. \n 1 ) Swim away in fear.\n")
choice_b = TreeNode("You stay in the phone booth and get sent back home.\n")
current_node.add_choices(choice_a, choice_b)

current_node = choice_a
choice_a = TreeNode("The merpeople welcome you to their city.")
choice_b = TreeNode("You swim out of the city and become lost.")
current_node.add_choices(choice_a, choice_b)

play_again = "y"
while play_again == "y":
  story_root.tell_story()
  play_again = input("Would you like to play again [y]/[n]?: ").lower()