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🏴‍☠️ What Does “Writing Classes” Mean?

Writing classes means creating your own custom data types in code — blueprints that describe how something in your program should behave.

A class defines two main things:

  1. What the thing is → its data (properties)
  2. What the thing does → its behavior (methods)

Once you write a class, you can create many objects from it.
Each object follows the rules defined by the class.

Why We Write Classes

Classes help you:

  • Organize your code
  • Reuse logic
  • Model real things (characters, items, enemies, ships, etc.)
  • Build larger systems in a clean, scalable way

They bundle data + behavior together so your program stays structured and easy to expand.

Inheritance (The Key Part of Your Assignment)

Inheritance lets you create a specialized version of an existing class.

Example idea:

  • Base class: Pirate → has name, health, attack()
  • Subclass: Buccaneer → a stronger pirate with heavy melee
  • Subclass: Sea Witch → a magic pirate with spells

Subclasses inherit everything from the base class but can add:

  • New abilities
  • Different stats
  • Custom behavior

This avoids rewriting the same code over and over.

A Simple Analogy

Think of a base class as:

“All pirates have names, health, and can attack.”

Then a subclass says:

“A Sea Witch is a pirate, but she also casts spells.”

Same foundation, different flavor.

Writing classes teaches you:

  • How to structure programs
  • How to think in terms of objects
  • How to reuse and extend code
  • How to model real‑world or game‑world systems

It’s one of the core skills in object‑oriented programming.

How is this demonstrated in our game?

When we see lines like this:

class Player extends Character {

It shows how “Player” inherits traits from an already established class such as character. In our pirate themed game. we see:

class Rival-Pirate extends Skeleton-Guard

Skeleton-Guard is a level 1 enemy, which we can extend upon and make a level 2 enemy such as Rival-Pirate. We can now give Rival-Pirate more traits such as higher XP and more attack damage.