How'd we do?

We are going to stop working on our Hunt the Wumpus game at this point, but this isn't to say it is completely done. Quite apart from game features we might add (see the assignment for some ideas), the OO design is not as polished as it could be.

If you look again at the memory diagram of our objects you will see both solid and dotted lines. Generally¹ a direct reference (solid line) is preferred to an indirect one (dotted line). There are some dotted lines here we could replace with solid ones. For example the tunnels attributes could be lists of direct references to Room objects rather than lists of room numbers. This would simplify the syntax of using them and is semantically more accurate, but it makes initializing the cave system quite a bit trickier. Likewise, the hazard and Player location attributes could contain direct references to their respective Room objects rather than room numbers that have to be used as indices to indirectly access the rooms, but there are some initial complications in setting that up too. In sum our design may not be as OOPy as it could be, but it is as OOPy as we had the time and the skills to make it.