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Challenge: Add Layers to Your Adventure

Explore how to build interactive adventure stories in Python by applying functions, conditional logic, and nested decisions to create engaging, dynamic story paths. This lesson helps you practice controlling program flow and capturing user input for interactive storytelling.

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You’re building a choose-your-own-adventure game where the player’s choices decide what happens next.

You are given a starting version of the game. Your job is to add more choices and outcomes to make the story deeper and more interesting.

What’s Already There

The starter code already:

  • Defines a function called jungle_adventure()

  • Asks the player to choose a path:

    • "river"

    • "mountain"

    • "jungle"

  • Prints one outcome based on that choice

  • Calls the function so the game runs

Your Task

Modify the function so that:

  1. At least one path asks the player a second question

    1. For example:

  2. That second decision should have at least three possible choices

    1. Each choice should lead to a different printed outcome

  3. Use if, elif, and else to handle each choice

Example Flow (Conceptual)

You don’t need to copy this, it’s just to show the idea:

  • Player chooses "river"

  • Player is asked what to do next

  • Different actions lead to different endings

Rules

  • Keep everything inside the jungle_adventure() function

  • Use input() to get the player’s choices

  • Use nested if / elif / else blocks

  • Make sure the function still runs when the program starts

💡 Tips

  • You can store each choice in a variable (like path or action)

  • Don’t worry about spelling mistakes, an else case can handle unexpected input

  • The goal is clear logic, not a perfect story

# Modify the function below by adding more layers to make the story your own!
def jungle_adventure():
    # Ask the user to choose between two paths
    path = input("You find two paths: one goes to a river, the other to a mountain. Where do you go? ")

    # Check what the user typed and respond accordingly
    if path == "river":
        print("You swim with dolphins!")
    elif path == "mountain":
        print("You find an ancient temple!")
    else:
        # If the user typed something else, give this outcome
        print("You wander into the jungle and get lost.")

# Start the jungle adventure by calling the function
jungle_adventure()
Introducing the idea of nested decisions for more story complexity