Captain Code: Unleash Your Coding Superpower with Python

Chapter 16Keeping It Classy

You now have a functioning inventory system that allows players to obtain, carry, and use items. And your game can adapt based on inventory items. The next thing you need is a player management system. To create this, we’ll introduce you to classes, which are the focus of this chapter.

The Player System

In Chapter 15, you used a dictionary to create an inventory system. We used that to hide a key that the player needed to find in order to unlock the door.

But, let’s be honest, we did a pretty lousy job of hiding the key. A player can just go to the boulders, and—ta-da!—there it is. In a real game, you’d typically ...