================ Star Trek 1971

for Python

About

I recently discovered the classic old BASIC game Star Trek_ from 1971, through a post seen on Reddit_.

The post contained a version of the game rewritten in C-Sharp which I thought was quite good. I wondered if anyone had ported it to Python.

After a little bit of research, I didn't find a definitive version for Python.

This is by no means a definitive version itself; I just took the C# version and converted it to Python.

.. Star Trek: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek%28text_game%29 .. _Reddit: http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/28228/Star-Trek-Text-Game

Improvements

There's heaps that can be done with this program. A lot of implementations used global variables. I tried to fix this by encapsulating them in a global object, but this can definitely be improved further.

Here is a list of possible improvements:

• Encapsulate everything in classes
• Include help/instructions
• Add extra features;
  • new ships, celestial objects, etc
  • new weapon types
  • crew functions
• Easier navigation (using cartesian system maybe)
• Make some parts more 'Pythonic'
• ...Plenty more!