prototypes/patterns/generating-mini-games.ipynb

Generating mini-games with random.choice()¶

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from random import choice

characters = ['.', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ']
width = 100
height = 25

for y in range(height):
    for x in range(width):
        print(choice(characters), end='')
    print('')

.    .                .     .     ..            .                     .             ..              
                      .   .       . .                    . .     .   .              .  .   .        
                                                     .         .       . ..  ..    .             . .
        .                      .   .                .            .   . .   .                        
 .    .           .         . .           .           .             .              .      .         
             .   .  .           .                .   .          .       .                        .  
   .        .       .                .          .                                   .        ..     
         .                     .       .                    ..        .   .  . .   ..   .   ..      
  .           .       .         . .                              .                    . ..       .  
.            .    .     .                          .    .         . .        .. .                   
.        .              .                                                      ..         .  .      
    .       .                     .                     .  . .                   .   ..     .       
                       .                          .    .                      .       .             
        .          . .               .    .                          .        .                     
  .          .           .                  .                           .     .               .    .
.         .    .             ..               .               .              .           .     .    
                     ..                  .        .                   .              .              
   .   .   .      .                             .   .            .     . .      .              .    
          .                         .        .            .                   .        .  .    ..   
   .                                   .                   .                               .     .  
     .                .   .   .       .  .                .              .  . . .                 . 
           .  .                  .  .  .    .       .     .        .                    .   .       
  . .         .    .           .   .                         . .                   .         .      
                 .        .             .   .    .                               . .   .   .        
          .                   .        .               .            . .      .           .    .     

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from random import choice

character_set = 'gamification                                                                                 '
characters = [character for character in character_set]
width = 100
height = 25

for y in range(height):
    for x in range(width):
        print(choice(characters), end='')
    print('')

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  c               i       ag                n           o                   amf        f o        i 
         o     i      o     f                                  i         a              g     af i g
              m       i               f a       t             g     c            f            t    i
   n        o f                  a                      f       tnf       o   f                     
     a      i      i    i      i       i           t           in c                       caa       
                  t      fa   n              f       i                t                    a    i  o
  o  i              ag           ig     g                   g       a i           i     i  n   ag   
   n            m              gt  a    i    o        f i      o  ni  i i                           
  m     i          f    i    a     a  a                o i  m                        a      g   c   
     f   am     a      c o                i      f                          cna f                 mi
        t        a i      c    f              g f                           n  i  c    o o g        
      o        f t a         g         ng   i a       i  a   n      n     o a    t       oi     i it
       o t            n     o     m  f            g                a i a      m        ni           
       f i  i g  m        o    i a   n t                 a i       a   a  m       i  a    i        a
i                  a     a ac                i a   t              i                       tn t  a   
 o f  tf                     i   an                           i  n  o   f i        t          t     
              c  g        fg              i o   o     ca  i       o        o   o    m   t           
   f o         i i   i          c        i                         ta     i  ca       c      f      
                c n           aa                  g     i   m                g      m      i      c 
 c         i  c    i     f  i                n                 m       f     i     i                
                   a    o  i   g   m o   ot   a      i  a      c  f     m               i           
              i   a       a       i       f                   f            a         c      g      i
 to   in       a          t    og     im              i     o                 i            f    n c 
ao            m    g                                ii c  n          a     to  t                    

More games plz!¶

Try to make some more mini-games yourself.

You can restrict yourself to using ASCII characters only (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII) and stay in touch with early computer graphics ASCII art...

Or you can extend your pallete with Unicode characters. This is a nice website that highlights specific character sets: http://xahlee.info/comp/unicode_index.html

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