Help with text based game.

Question

SO I've just begun to make a text based game and i've already ran into a problem :/
I've made a switch statement that has cases for each of the classes in the game..for example
Output will ask what you want to be
1. Fighter
2. etc
3. etc
case 1: //Fighter
My problem is i want to be able to display the class
as in game class not java class
as Fighter
That may be a bit confusing to understand sorry if it isn't clear
Here is my code that i'm using this may help.
import java.util.Scanner;
public class main {
     public static void main(String args[]) {
          Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
          int health = 0;
          int power = 0;
          int gold = 0;
          System.out.println("Welcome to my game!");
          System.out.println("First of what is your name?");
          String name = input.next();
          System.out.println(name + " you say? Interesting name. Well then " + name + " what is your race?");
          System.out.println();
          System.out.println("Press 1. for Human");
          System.out.println("Press 2. for Elf");
          System.out.println("Press 3. for Orc");
          int Race = input.nextInt();
          switch (Race) {
          case 1: // Human
               String race = "Human";
               health = 10;
               power = 10;
               gold = 25;
          break;
          case 2: // Elf
               health = 9;
               power = 13;
               gold = 25;
          break;
          case 3: // Orc
               health = 13;
               power = 9;
               gold = 30;
          break;
          default:
               System.out.println("Invalid choice Please choose 1-3");
          break;
          System.out.println("Now what is your class?");
          System.out.println("Press 1. Fighter");
          System.out.println("Press 2. Mage");
          System.out.println("Press 3. Rogue");
          int Class = input.nextInt();
          switch (Class) {
          case 1: // Fighter
               health = health + 1;
               power = power + 1;
               gold = gold + 1;
          break;
          case 2: // Mage
               health = health + 1;
               power = power + 1;
               gold = gold + 1;
          break;
          case 3: // Rogue
               health = health + 1;
               power = power + 1;
               gold = gold + 1;
          break;
          default:
               System.out.println("Invalid choice Please choose 1-3");
          break;
          System.out.println("So your name is " + name );
          System.out.println("and your race is: " + race);
          System.out.println("and your class is: " + Class);
}Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Brushfire wrote:
So you're advising him to run his console based game on the EDT, why?Far King good question... To which I suspect the answer is "Ummm... Ooops!" ;-)
@OP: Here's my 2c... if you don't follow then ask good questions and I'll consider giving good answers.
package forums;
import java.util.Scanner;
abstract class Avatar
  public final String name;
  public int type;
  public int health;
  public int power;
  public int gold;
  protected Avatar(String name, int health, int power, int gold) {
    this.name = name;
    this.health = health;
    this.power = power;
    this.gold = gold;
  public String toString() {
    return "name="+name
         +" health="+health
         +" power="+power
         +" gold="+gold
class Human extends Avatar
  public Human(String name) {
    super(name, 10, 11, 31);
class Elf extends Avatar
  public Elf(String name) {
    super(name, 9, 13, 25);
class Orc extends Avatar
  public Orc(String name) {
    super(name, 6, 17, 13);
interface AvatarFactory
  public Avatar createAvatar();
class PlayersAvatarFactory implements AvatarFactory
  private static final Scanner scanner = new Scanner(System.in);
  public Avatar createAvatar() {
    System.out.println();
    System.out.println("Lets create your avatar ...");
    String name = readName();
    Avatar player = null;
    switch(readRace(name)) {
      case 1: player = new Human(name); break;
      case 2: player = new Elf(name); break;
      case 3: player = new Orc(name); break;
    player.type = readType();
    return player;
  private static String readName() {
    System.out.println();
    System.out.print("First off, what is your name : ");
    String name = scanner.nextLine();
    System.out.println(name + " you say? Interesting name.");
    return name;
  private static int readRace(String name) {
    System.out.println();
    System.out.println("Well then " + name + ", what is your race?");
    System.out.println("1. for Human");
    System.out.println("2. for Elf");
    System.out.println("3. for Orc");
    while(true) {
      System.out.print("Choice : ");
      int race = scanner.nextInt();
      scanner.nextLine();
      if (race >= 1 && race <= 3) {
        return race;
      System.out.println("Bad Choice! Please try again, and DO be careful! This is important!");
  private static int readType() {
    System.out.println();
    System.out.println("Now, what type of creature are you?");
    System.out.println("1. Barbarian");
    System.out.println("2. Mage");
    System.out.println("3. Rogue");
    while(true) {
      System.out.print("Choice : ");
      int type = scanner.nextInt();
      scanner.nextLine();
      if (type >= 1 && type <= 3) {
        return type;
      System.out.println("Look, enter a number between 1 and 3 isn't exactly rocket surgery! DO atleast try to get it right!");
public class PlayersAvatarFactoryTest {
  public static void main(String args[]) {
    try {
      PlayersAvatarFactoryTest test = new PlayersAvatarFactoryTest();
      test.run();
    } catch (Exception e) {
      e.printStackTrace();
  private void run() {
    AvatarFactory avatarFactory = new PlayersAvatarFactory();
    System.out.println();
    System.out.println("==== PlayersAvatarFactoryTest ====");
    System.out.println("Welcome to my game!");
    Avatar player1 = avatarFactory.createAvatar();
    System.out.println();
    System.out.println("Player1: "+player1);
}It's "just a bit" more OOified than your version... and I changed random stuff, so you basically can't cheat ;-)
And look out for JSG's totally-over-the-top triple-introspective-reflective-self-crushing-coffeebean-abstract-factory solution, with cheese ;-)
Cheers. Keith.
Edited by: corlettk on 25/07/2009 13:38 ~~ Typo!
Edited by: corlettk on 25/07/2009 13:39 ~~ I still can't believe the morons at sun made moron a proscribed word.