code review

i'm new to programming, would anyone mind giving this basic game a review?  it's pretty minimal, but i'd like to know if there are obvious places i can improve now

http://pastie.org/5179576

>>10
Maybe this is just taste - things like player_starting_health strike me as being somewhat long, and I absolutely wouldn't tolerate them being even one word longer.

>>12
Well that's kind of a bad example - if you can identify that the function is doing two different things, you should just break it up into two functions that do one thing each.