This project was created for my 8th grade history class. The user plays an escapee from Libby Prison, Richmond. After the protagonist escapes, he's greeted by a negro, Jack, who offers to help him find some food. Jack guides him to a nearby house where Prince, another negro, and his wife provide him with some much needed food. After the protagonist is finished eating, Jack gives him directions to the nearby town of Slash Cottage, where he believes the protagonist will be able to find help. The protagonist decides to take his advice and venture to Slash Cottage. Unfortunately, the protagonist gets lost in the forest and must search for water. When he finally gets to Slash Cottage, he is relieved. He is then approached by a boy who asks him a few questions and eventually invites him over for supper. The protagonist spends the night with the boy and his family. In the morning, he departs to his home in Rockville. He faces many dangers along the way, but he finally makes it to Rockville where he is greeted by his wife and children who are eager to hear all about his adventures.
This project was coded in C++ using Visual Studio 2010, Sublime Text 2, and Xcode 4. The code is not very efficiently written. It was planned to create a struct that would hold the scene's text and what the next scene would be. All of the struct's instances would have their content stored in a file that would be read in a while loop to create all of the appropriate instances. Unfortunately, I did not have the time to figure out the logistics of this system and I was forced to create a storyLine() function instead. The storyLine() function is simply a bunch of std::cout statements along with switch statements to create the storyline.