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So whenever I start a new project, I kind of like to know where I'm headed.

So let's have a look at where we're going.

Sure.

In this course, we're going to build a text-based game from start to finish.

We'll start with a player who has a name and a health.

Then we'll liven things up by adding in multiple players.

Once we have some players, we'll introduce some interesting gameplay.

Each player will take a turn, and then based on the role of a die, their health will change.

We'll also have them collect points by finding treasures.

And we'll keep players on their toes.

We'll throw in a few twists along the way.

We'll add in some unique player types, maybe a loaded die or two, just to keep things interesting.

Of course, we'll need to test our code along the way, and we'll look at our spec to help

us do that.

Then at the end of the game, we'll tally up all the scores and see which player wins.

We'll print out all the game statistics, including a list of the high scores.

Finally, we'll package it all up and distribute the game as a Ruby gem.

Now having taught a number of these courses over the years, we've learned that folks preferred

if we don't live code the solutions for them.

Right, it feels too much like a code along.

Right, so in the live coding portion of the course, we'll be building a separate application

than you will in the exercises.

We're going to build a playlist of movies.

But don't worry, the concepts will be the same.

Like you'll use a block to iterate over your players in the game, and we'll use a block

to iterate over the movies in our app.

You're going to end up with two apps at the end, the movie and the game, but you're going

to have all the fun to build the game.

Yep, that's right.

So the first step is we want to make sure that you have Ruby installed on your computer,

and also all the example code downloaded.

So the first couple exercises after this walk you through how to do exactly that.

So take a few minutes to get prepared, and then we'll meet you right back here.

See you in a minute.