Overview:
The objective of this exercise is to get your feet wet in some actual programming through the use of
choice and control elements in the C++ programming language. Along the way you will have the opportunity
to explore the complexities involved in developing a work of interactive fiction and the inherent spatial nature of such works.
The Exercise:
- Develop the basic plot of your interactive fiction. You can come up with your own idea or use a character from a game, book, movie as a starting point.
- Draw a tree diagram of your plot and the various options.
- Develop the code for the flow of the interactive fiction based on your tree diagram.
- Populate the code with the text of the story.
- The tree of the plot must be at least 5 levels deep
- Some forks can be terminated at lower levels but at least one fork must be 5 levels deep
- All forks must be terminated in a manner that fits with the plot of the story, the story may not terminate abruptly with no explanation. The end must be built into the story.
Deliverables
- A one page description of the story and plot line
- The tree diagram illustrating the various forks in the story line.
- C++ source file for the application (no need to include an exe file)
Submission Guidelines
- All written work such as the application description should be submitted in digital form as a webpage, word document or adobe acrobat (pdf) file.
- code should be well formatted, i.e. using white space, tabs and parentheses to make the code easy for the eye to see and read.
- code should be well commented, its not enough for your application to work, I want to see your thought processes
so include copious comments in your code explaining the choices you have made and the reasoning behind them.
- Application should compile on Dev-C++ IDE on Windows XP
Due date
- All files should be loaded to your folder on student-iat.ubalt.edu before the start of class on 03/02/05.
- create a folder for the class
- create a folder for assignment 2 and place all submission files there
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