Development

[ciaranparker]

Object Oriented C# code for a game called dungeon explorer. After creating a player the user can pick up an item and battle an enemy.

[Mitchell-Nicholls]

What Went Well

• Good use of error handling for when the user is choosing the path at which they take not allowing the user to proceed until a valid input is entered (could change this to an exception statement instead) and projecting the user's inventory to inform them of the item they pick up when it is proceeded through the Player.PickUpItem()
• Intuitive structure of the code for all the files with it being easy to read and understand the flow which I appreciate as it is visually appealing in my opinion
• Creative theme of different weapon items available to the user depending on the path it which they take with the inventory taking the different weapons into account when choosing them storing them in the player's inventory as they would intend
• Getters and setters are effectively used for the player's name and health with the health being a get; set; for the value to change as evidenced by the enemy being damaged by the player and the name being a get; private set; for the value to not be changed once set

Improvements

• Some error handling required for when the user is fighting the enemy regarding a valid input for different options the user can proceed with during the fight for example typing fight to fight back or typing heal to heal your health with a potion of some form. Currently at the moment is also damaged when typing an invalid input which I'm unsure if this is what is intended to happen. Perhaps displaying in the console of the required input for these different options instead of the user being available to endless opportunities and not punishing them for this
• While inspecting the code, I have discovered that the enemies attacks have a guaranteed chance to nearly always be stronger than the players which seems unbalanced considering the introductory approach to fighting in this game which isn't fair for new users and perhaps easing the difficulty and increasing this overtime through the amount of fights the user beats
• Was unable to close the game after I died with the program looping over itself endlessly with my health still ending up in the negatives. Consider developing a way for the user's health not to proceed into the negatives even after the user has taken the final hit from the enemy they were fighting
• When the user is entering their name, they are free to type in anything they want as part of their name which while this gives them the freedom to be creative can lead to them misusing the name system to type any other data format other than strings where it is preferred for strings of characters to create real names.
• At the moment, the user doesn't have the option to constantly view the description of the room they are in or the contents of their inventory which would I believe could be considered to benefit the user to incorporate a stat on the amount of damage a weapon does or any other collectibles available to the user perhaps when defeating the enemies
• While the user takes the same path on the second round of fighting the enemy, the user is holding multiple instances of the same weapon which I don't believe was intended

Conclusion

• In conclusion, I believe that this game is compact but is simple and effective with a variety of features and concepts with a intuitive battle turn based system but believe that improvements can be made to output informative info to the user including valid inputs the user needs to enter (e.g. type 'fight' to fight the enemy for example)