Attributes

Attributes

Creating a player character.

Role playing games require players to adopt a virtual character in the game. Characters often have traits recorded as numerical values for strength, dexterity, constitution, intelligence, wisdom and charisma. This program creates a simple character and saves it to a file.

Make

Write a program that asks the user to enter the name of a character, together with their health, attack and defend as numbers. The program should write the data to a file.

Use this boilerplate code as a starting point:

TRINKET MAIN.PY

Success Criteria

Remember to add a comment before a subprogram, selection or iteration statement to explain its purpose.

Complete the subprogram called `make_character` that:

  1. Asks the user to input the name of the character.
  2. Asks the user to input stats for: health, attack and defend values.
  3. Stats must be validated as numbers to be accepted.
  4. Returns a list with the name and stats.

Complete the subprogram called `save_character` that:

  1. Takes a list of attributes as a parameter.
  2. Opens a file for writing data. The name of the file is the name of the character + ".txt"
  3. Writes "[Name]" to the file followed by the character name on a new line, followed by a blank line.
  4. Writes "[Attributes]" to the file followed by each attribute on a new line.
  5. Closes the file.

Complete the `main program` so that:

  1. The `make_character` and `save_character` subprograms are called.
  2. Outputs "Character saved."

Typical inputs and outputs from the program would be:

Enter the name of the character: Elf

Enter health: 10

Enter attack: 13

Enter defend: 8

Character saved.

Knowledge Organiser

Use these resources as a reference to help you meet the success criteria.

Programming guide:
Levels 1-8
Flowcharts:
main program
make_character
save_character
Parsons:
make_character
save_character

Evaluate

Run the unit tests below to check that your program has met the success criteria.

[Name]

Elf


[Attributes]

health=23

attack=45

defend=67

Check that you have:

  • Used comments within the code to describe the purpose of subprograms, conditions and iterations.
  • Used meaningful identifier names. That means the names of subprograms and variables indicate what they are for.