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[Antone333]

So an interesting idea came to mind while watching my brother play grand theft auto 5. he was working on making a death match for him and his friends to play. so it got me thinking. what if a game was developed where the company spent all their time making weapons, characters and other items to be put into a level and then didnt make any world and put out a bunch of tools for users to make their own levels to play and share.

so i decided i would try to make a project out of that using c++. Now i am not going to be able to make a 3d world of that sort. but what i was thinking is a text based set up that allows the user to decide what exactly happens in the world.

i have been working on my own text based game and i have about 20 different items, 5 potions (still has a small glitch when getting more potions but im working on that), random occurring fight scenes and a leveling up system. so im not exactly new but im by no means good at programming. still learning.

so please no crap if you think its a stupid idea. but if you think its a stupid idea try and tell it in a nice way.

If anyone has some pointers on what i would need to keep in mind or some pages i can read into for the whole user input part of this that would be great.

and also could someone direct me to a good place to work on classes. im struggling a little bit with them. thats where my problem with the potions came up i think.

~Thanks a lot!

[iAk3T05o]

The text based part isn't that good . . .
Why not use a game engine and make it.

[Antone333]

because i thought it would be a good way to learn more about how the user can input things of his own and have the program save more complicated things then just a characters name.

[iAk3T05o]

Are you planning on doing this with the console?

[Antone333]

yeah.

[Antone333]

i wont focus on that though.

do you know where i can go for some instruction on classes?

what i was doing in my text based game was a group of if statements in a function

if(weapon == 0)
{
weaponname = no item
}
else if(weapon == 1)
{
weapon name = sword
}

something along the lines of that

i know the basics of using classes. just not so much how to apply them to an inventory system like that.

[Antone333]

void PrimaryHand()
{
if(PrimaryHandItem == 0)
{
PrimaryHandName = "No Item";
PrimaryHandHP = 0;
PrimaryHandSTEAM = 0;
PrimaryHandATT = 0;
PrimaryHandDEF = 0;
PrimaryHandLUCK = 0;
PrimaryHandAGILITY = 0;
PrimaryHandSPEECH = 0;
}
else if(PrimaryHandItem == 1)
{
PrimaryHandName = "Sword";

PrimaryHandHP = 10;
PrimaryHandSTEAM = 0;
PrimaryHandATT = 2;
PrimaryHandDEF = 1;
PrimaryHandLUCK = 1;
PrimaryHandAGILITY = 1;
PrimaryHandSPEECH = 0;
}
}

this is what i have for just a short show of exactly how i did it.

[iAk3T05o]

I'm sure it was an article on this site that said you shouldn't make text based games using the console because it's different from what applies to real games.

[Antone333]

ok. thanks. ill look into other ways of doing it.

[iAk3T05o]

If you are 'good' with c++ and want to make other sofware that isn't console like, try qt.
If you want to make this your game with c++ and think you may need or not use graphics, try sfml or sdl.

[ngbeslhang]

You can use game engines if you want to make games with a little of/no programming experience.
But if you want to build it from scratch, learn C++ completely before even thinking to do other jobs for making games.

EDIT: Hmm... I think I misread the topic...