Info:
This week, I am learning about Class and OOP in Ruby.
I will make a small tamagotchi game as personal practice.
My goal is to create a “Queer Tamagotchi Interactive Game” that questions the user’s own identity and personal
beliefs on gender constructs. But of course, I don’t want to say this outright, since I want the user to grow attached to the pet first.
Specifications:
- I’d like to be able to “hatch” a new tamagotchi pet from a group of available breeds.
- I’d like to be able to be able to see the status of my tamagotchi:
is it hungry, does it have enough sleep, playtime, and does it have enought training to be disciplined. - I’d like to be able to feed my pet when it is hungry, place it in bed when it is sleepy,
and play with it when it is bored, and train it to be more disciplined. - I like my pet to give me warnings over time for its three statuses.
- If my pet is neglected over time–not enough care, food, exercise from training, or playtime, the meter decreases in points.
- If my pet is fed, sleeping, and have enough playtime, then there should be a meter to add to its status.
- If any of the 4 meter reaches 0 (out of 100 points), a spaceship will return and take the pet away.
- There should be notices to the user when the pet changes status.
Some additional specs for future expansion:
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User can pick the pet’s genders from a list of 17 (yes 17 genders and sexual orientations. But why 17? It’s to poke fun of the binary gender we have. As long as there is not 2, I am quite happy. )
- Put an event: the tamagotchi might question it later and “come out”.
- The user have to decide what to do based on several conditions.
GIST LINK FOR THE CODE: https://gist.github.com/anhkim/8684831
It’s still a work in process, but here are some screen snapshots:
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