The idea to create a text adventure role playing game didn’t come to mind early on. I had many other ideas which I had to turn down and refine in order to come to my final decision.
Initially I was looking at python API’s that I could use to develop apps like messenger and a google maps client. But I steered away from them as a lot require special licenses and I found that I wouldn’t have the time and don’t have the skill to develop an application that complicated. So I switched to wanting to develop a game. My initial game ideas were a 2D battleship like game with two players and a simple turn based battle mechanic but then I thought to go even simpler and just make a simple fighting game with two players and options for weapons. But I wanted to challenge myself and make something that even I would want to play, I’d recently played this game called A Dark Room which is a text based survival game and I wanted to do something similar. So, the idea of a text based role playing game came into mind. For my game I plan to have an inventory system which players can then find and add items to it, a simple NPC system where players can talk and receive quests, and also multiple endings depending on what the player does during their time playing the game.
Here’s a document of the different ideas I thought out while picking out my final idea.
https://goo.gl/7SlRzV