Mars Trail: a text adventure!

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Project Description

I was interested in pivoting to a software dev position at my current company, and they write everything in C. This project is a simple text adventure to pick back up some C syntax and use a couple other techniques too.

Post-Mortem

• pointers are good; use them frequently
• limit scope as tight as possible and just make that work, don’t make 18 events before the basic game works
  • similarly: don’t optimize too early. JUST MAKE IT WORK
• clarity for yourself and other programmers is huge:
  • heavily employ conventions where possible, like build.sh or Makefiles and standard file structures like images/ directories
  • make data as simple as possible, and collected in one place
  • clean naming conventions are huge
    • XXXX_delta for EVERYTHING
• take advantage that C initializes values to zero
  • i can afford to have lots of object attributes if most of them will be zero anyways
• separate data from actions
  • i had individual outcome functions that applied a number to a
• getting an outside set of eyes can improve things a lot
  • restructuring outcome fns → outcome data
  • figuring out a bug i had with input parsing (using 2 getchar’s)