castle-game.js

assets = {
  0: ["kitchen gardens", "courtyards", "stables", "libraries", "great halls", "armories"],
  1: ["depressed ghosts", "sarcastic cats", "opinionated teacups"],
  2: ["knights with great cooking skills", "sword-wielding ladies", "highly educated serfs"],
  3: ["golden chalices of drinking", "fluffy blankets of sleeping", "shiny rubies of coding"]
};

pests = {
  0: ["dragons", "gorgons", "flesh-eating newts"],
  1: ["children", "fleas", "overly adorable mice"],
  2: ["sucker-upers", "fawning ministers", "shrill-voiced minstrels"],
  3: ["brasseries of Great-Aunt Gwenyvere", "violent library books", "two haunted squeaky suits of armor"]
};

results = {
  true: 0,
  false: 0
};

inventory = {good: [], lessGood: []};

function introduction() {
  console.log("\nWelcome to your new castle!!" +
  "\n\nThis castle is quite wonderful with many awesome features and lots of potential." +
  "\nBut unfortunately neighboring castles are suffering from various infestations " +
  "\nof terrifying terrors like dragons, fawning ministers, and vicious library books! Oh no!" +
  "\n\nOver the next 5 days, let's see if you survive life in your new castle." +
  "\nEvery day, one new thing will be added to your castle." +
  "\nIf it's a good thing, you'll have to try to keep it by creating a happy home for it." +
  "\nBut if it's a bad thing, you'll have to try and get rid of it!" +
  "\n\nIf at the end of the 5 days you have kept more good additions than bad ones, you'll win! " +
  "\nIf not, you'll get rudely booted out of your castle, never to return!!" +
  "\n\nYour castle is being built...\n\n");
}

function generateRandomNumber(min, max) {
  return Math.floor(Math.random() * (max - min + 1)) + min;
}

function generateMove() {
  var boolean;
  var addition;

  var goodOrBad = generateRandomNumber(0, 10);
  var location = generateRandomNumber(0, 3);

  if (goodOrBad % 2 === 0) {
    boolean = true;
    if (!(assets[location.toString()])) {
      location += 1;
    }
    for (var set in assets) {
      if (set === location.toString()) {
        var x = assets[set].length;
        var subset = generateRandomNumber(0, (x - 1));
        addition = assets[set].splice(subset, 1);
      }
    }
  } else {
    boolean = false;
    if (!(pests[location.toString()])) {
      location += 1;
    }
    for (var item in pests) {
      if (item === location.toString()) {
        var y = pests[item].length;
        var subitem = generateRandomNumber(0, (y - 1));
        addition = pests[item].splice(subitem, 1);
      }
    }
  }
  return [addition, boolean];
}

function generateDay(array, day) {
      console.log("\nDay " + day + "...");
      if (array[1]) {
        console.log("You've got " + array[0] + "!!! How great!");
        console.log("Let's see if the " + array[0] + " like living in your castle...");
        var stayOrLeave = ((generateRandomNumber(1, 10)) % 2 === 0);
        pause(3000);

        if (stayOrLeave) {
          console.log("Looks like the " + array[0] + " love it here! They're staying!!");
          results.true += 1;
          inventory.good.push(array[0][0]);
        } else {
          console.log("Oh no, the " + array[0] + " don't like it in this castle!" +
          " They're packing up and leaving!!");
        }
      } else {
        console.log("Oh no!! You've got " + array[0] + "!!!");
        console.log("You're fighting them off--who's winning??");
        var stayOrLeave = ((generateRandomNumber(1, 10)) % 2 === 0);
        pause(3000);

        if (stayOrLeave) {
          console.log("Oh no, looks like the " + array[0] + " dug in! They're staying!!");
          results.false += 1;
          inventory.lessGood.push(array[0][0]);
        } else {
          console.log("Thank goodness, the " + array[0] + " don't like it in this castle!" +
          " They're packing up and leaving!!");
        }
      }
}

function checkResults() {
  if (results[true] >= results[false]) {
    console.log("\nYesss!! You've beaten the odds and now the castle is yours!");
    console.log("Live happily in your castle with these lovely and not-so-lovely denizens:");
  } else {
    console.log("\nOh no! You've been overrun by pests! Leave now and never come back!");
    console.log("Your castle will have to figure out a way to live in peace with its denizens:");
  }
  console.log(inventory);
  console.log("\nThanks for playing the Castle Game :)");
}

function pause(millis) {
 var date = new Date();
 var currentDate = null;
 do { currentDate = new Date(); }
 while((currentDate - date) < millis);
}

function runGame() {
  introduction();
  pause(13000);
  for (var i=1; i < 6; i++) {
    var array = generateMove(assets, pests);
    pause(5000);
    generateDay(array, i);
  }
  pause(1000);
  checkResults();
}

runGame();