This is a very simple text game to make practice with Python classes. The basic idea of the game is to have a character (the "player") move from battle to battle, with breaks in-between to visit a shop that allows to buy a single random wearable item and some potions. It is also possible for the player to trigger a "hard battle" by sacrificing enough "illbane" to summon a stronger enemy. The player can obtain "illbane" by eniemes that drop it when defeated, or save money to buy it in the shop. The goal of the game is to survive as long as possible to get the highest score. The original game was a simple Java implementation for which someone asked a review on stackexchange. I started the review, but I noticed that I had almost entirely re-written the code. I decided to use this as an opportunity to improve my Python knowledge.

• The player starts with 100 HP, 30 strength, 20 as the maximum random damage, 1000 gold and an health potion.
• Initially the player can:
  • Start a fight. This triggers the battle choices menu. The enemy will be randomly chosen.
  • Visit the shop. This triggers the shop choices menu. Both items and potions are available.
  • Sacrifice illbane. This triggers a hard battle. The player needs to have enough illbane for this to happen.

• During the fight the player can:
  • Attack the enemy. This means that the enemy will also attack the player. The player attack damage is subtracted from the enemy's health and the enemy's attack damage is subtracted from the player's health. When either reaches zero, the fight is over. If the player's health reaches zero, the game is also over. If the enemy is defeated and the player is still alive, the enemy will drop a random amount of gold and a single unit of illbane. There is a random chance that the enemy will also drop an health potion. The score will also be updated based on the enemy value.
  • Drink a potion. Currently two kinds of potions are supported:
    • Health potion. This restores part of the player's health.
    • Strength potion. This increases the player's attack allowing to do more damage.
  • Run from the battle. This ends the current battle and sends the player back to the main actions choice.

• In the shop the player can buy either an item or a potion.
• Every item has a specific cost, armor bonus and strength bonus. These are added to the player stats when they're bought.
• Every potion has a specific value for how much health it will recover, or how much strength it will increase. The effect of strength potion is canceled when a fight is terminated, either by winning or by running away.
• Internally, to determine if the bonus should be added immediately or only on consumption, the item has a "wearable" attribute that determines the kind of item.