Bear Of The West

Bear of the West is a short text adventure game where you play as a cowboy detective on the hunt for notorious outlaw Bear Jackson. After a bank robbery in the town of Cattle Point, you take the job to arrest Bear Jackson and stop his reign of terror.

I made this for my Programming 1 class Midterm. It is written in C#. I had a lot of fun writing this. I wrote a similar western choose-your-own adventure game in Java in high school, but it was nice to be able to write another one with new improvements. This is my first game in C#, so I was proud of the features I added beyond the requirements of the assignment. I made the console color changes based on location, to give each town a different feel. I also made it so that the "Press any key to continue" message is replaced by the next line of dialogue when you press a key, which I think gives a nice game feel and helps with immersion. Overall, I am very happy with how this project turned out.

Credits:

Programmed, Written, and Designed by Lane Howard

ASCII Art from https://www.asciiart.eu/buildings-and-places and http://www.network-science.de/ascii/

Menu and Scene structure based on tutorials by Mike Hadley

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