The Mausoleum is an Interactive Fiction game running in Python 3
Interactive Fiction or RPG [Role Playing Game] are both names for games where the story unfolds according to decisions made by the player.
Another name for these games many years ago were Text Adventures, which I used to play on my ZX Spectrum. Famous titles were Monkey Island, The Hobbit and Colossal Adventure.
I particularly liked one called Snowball 9 from Level 9 Software.
I decided to try and write my own in Python, to run on a Raspberry Pi, mainly as a means to learn more about Python, but mostly for fun.
The project soon took up a life of its own and I wasted far too much time on it. It also resulted in me creating a companion program in Microsoft Excel which
makes it a lot easier to create these types of games. Using this, and the core code from Mausoleum, you can start to create your own adventures with
only a basic knowledge of Python. During the creation process I think you will learn intuitively and increase your Python skills.
Please feel free to download and play the game.
If you like it, or would like to know more about the process, please leave me feedback on the contacts page.
If there is enough interest, I will publish the game creator programme, and a complete tutorial about how this gamewas created and how to create your own.
Download the file from the link below. Unzip the contents to any folder, ie \home\Pi\documents\
Open a command prompt and change to the mausoleum folder.
type "python mausoleum.py" and it should work. You can also run it in Thonny but if you do, open the file world.py and near the top change the value of the variable "coloured_text" to False.
The text looks good on a black background, but terrible on a white background.