Exercise 30, game over function?

Python
#1

Hi there.

I just went through the little game on exercise 30, it was fun. I would like to take it a little further and create a game over when the player selected an option.

I think I will have to make the game into a function, and also create another function for the game over.

But, I’m not there yet to do it on my own. Any ideas as to where to start making the game over function for exercise 30. Nothing fancy :smiley:

#2

Hi. I’d suggest carrying on with the book. You get to write the game a few more times :wink:

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#3

Thanks ! @gpkesley

I’m truly enjoying the book. I have been complementing it with other courses like codeacademy and it’s fun to have been learning from different approaches.

#4

If you want to just keep track of what the user is doing the simplest is to make a global dict like this:

STATS = {}

Put that at the top, then when you wan to track anything in a function do this:

STATS["hp"] = 10

The other way is to use globals, but that gets hairy after a bit.

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#5

Thanks Zed.

I was learning about dictionaries on another course. Super cool, not there yet, but I can see how they work.

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