For this tutorial, we will be using our Raspberry Pi and a programming language called Python to create our very own text adventure, with our own game world and some characters to inhabit that world.

That’s how to create a file in Python, update it, rename it, and destroy it. The circle of life! Of course, this is only really scratching the surface of what you can accomplish with Python.

Coding tells the game what to do Coding is like telling a computer what to do, and in games, it’s how you make stuff happen. Imagine code as a conversation between the creator and the game.

This post explains what a Python module is and how to use it to drastically extend the capabiltiies of your code. Plus: how to make your own!