Escape Room Program – Part 3: escaping the room

Step 5 – Over to you

You now, probably, have a working escape room.

So, what next?

Here are some ideas:

  1. Have a look at your descriptions. Can you add a bit more atmosphere to them?
  2. Can you use concatenation to use the player's name a bit more – see Part One – Step 5 to remind yourself how to do that
  3. Can you add more options in to your IF - ELSE blocks? Are there other things the player might do that are reasonable?
  4. How about more hints?
  5. Or giving them things to pick up and use?
  6. Or more peril and danger? Using lives?
  7. Or something else?

Once you can program the basics you can take this as far as you want to. Within reason.

You can use a tool like Online Python to code at home. Or on the bus (google "Python online" – there are loads of tools out there). You just need to copy and paste your code into a text file to keep it saved.

That's it. It's up to you now.