Inspiration
We sat down with a list of things we had done recently and also challenges we had recently encountered and brainstormed. We were feeling inspired to go on an adventure after seeing the Local Hack Day branding this year.
What it does
If we text a number and we receive an option for which game scenario we wish to play, then we play through it as we would a regular text based story, either by making multiple choice decisions or occasionally texting in a command.
How we built it
We planned on using twilio for sending and managing the sent and received text massages. The story itself was set up using python.
Challenges we ran into
One of the most significant challenges we ran into was right at the start, to sign up for a twilio account you need an active phone number (for them to either text or call you a verification code) unfortunately both of us are from India and do not have signal here. We asked around if we could borrow someone's phone and tried setting up google voice numbers. Another challenge was setting up software which would process the users texted input (not just the multiple choice answers). We found a version of this online and tried basing ours off of it.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We went from not having any ideas to brainstorming for a long time and later coming up with an idea we both liked.
What we learned
We learned that often things that would not at first appear to be problems (or problems at all) can become the greatest difficulties.
What's next for Text Based Adventure Game
Hopefully with working signal back home we can more properly implement our ideas. The text analyzing code will require a lot more time.
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