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Easier way to make a roguelike?

facebookisgayyy (32)
This is my attempt at making a simple room in a roguelike, obviously it's very glitchy and doesn't have much logic behind it at all, but it took quite some time just to make this tiny bit.. is there any easier way to go about creating a roguelike?

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#include <iostream>
#include <conio2.h>
#include <windows.h>
using namespace std;
 
void gotoXY( int x, int y )
{
        HANDLE output_handle;
 
        COORD pos;
 
        pos.X = x;
        pos.Y = y;
 
        output_handle = GetStdHandle( STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE );
 
        SetConsoleCursorPosition( output_handle, pos );
}
 
void gotoXYZ( int cord1, int cord2 )
{
        HANDLE output_handle;
 
        COORD pos;
 
        pos.X = cord1;
        pos.Y = cord2;
 
        output_handle = GetStdHandle( STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE );
 
        SetConsoleCursorPosition( output_handle, pos );
}
 
 
 
 
int main()
{
        const int consoleWidth = 35;
        const int consoleHeight = 19;
        char navigate;
        int cord1 = 32;
        int cord2 = 12;
        int a = 0;

   do
        { 
            gotoXY(32, 12);
            cin >> navigate;
   
    gotoXY( 5, 3 );
        cout << "Welcome to the World! This is your house";
    gotoXY( 5, 4);
        cout << "Controls: ";
        textcolor(LIGHTCYAN);
        cout << "    W: Up, ";
        textcolor(CYAN);
        cout << "   A: Left, ";
        textcolor(LIGHTMAGENTA);
        cout << "   S: Down, ";
        textcolor(MAGENTA);
        cout << "    D: Right";
 

    for( int y = 10; y < consoleHeight;  ++y )
        {
                for( int x = 20; x < consoleWidth - 2; ++x )
                {
                        gotoXY( x, y );
                        textcolor(DARKGRAY);
                        cout << ':';
                }
        }
        
    for ( int y = 9; y < 10; ++y)
    {
        for( int x = 20; x < 35 - 2; ++x)
        {
            
        gotoXY( x, y);
        textcolor(LIGHTGRAY);
        cout << '@';
        }
    }
    
    for (int y = 19; y < 20; ++y)
    {
        for( int x = 20; x < 35 - 2; ++x)
        {
        gotoXY( x, y);
        textcolor(LIGHTGRAY);
        cout << '@';
        }
    }
    
    for (int y = 9; y < 19; ++y)
    {
        for( int x = 20; x < 23 - 2; ++x)
        {
        gotoXY( x, y);
        textcolor(LIGHTGRAY);
        cout << '@';
        }
    }
    
    for (int y = 9; y < 20; ++y)
    {
        for( int x = 33; x < 36 - 2; ++x)
        {
        gotoXY( x, y);
        textcolor(LIGHTGRAY);
        cout << '@';
        }
    }
    
    
    for (int y = 15; y < 17; ++y)
    {
        for( int x = 33; x < 36 - 2; ++x)
        {
        gotoXY( x, y);
        textcolor(WHITE);
        cout << '#';
        }
    }
     
        
        gotoXY( 5, 6);
        cin  >> navigate;
       
        if(navigate == 'S' || navigate == 's')
        {
        cord2++;
        gotoXYZ(cord1, cord2);
        cout << '+';
        gotoXY(5, 5);
        cout << "                                                                 " << endl;
    }
    else if(navigate == 'W' || navigate == 'w')
    {
        cord2--;
        gotoXYZ(cord1, cord2);
        cout << '+';
        gotoXY(5, 5);
        cout << "                                                                 " << endl;
    }
    else if(navigate == 'A' || navigate == 'a')
    {
        cord1--;
        gotoXYZ(cord1, cord2);
        cout << '+';
        gotoXY(5, 5);
        cout << "                                                                 " << endl;
    }
    else
    {
        cord1++;
        gotoXYZ(cord1, cord2);
        cout << '+';
        gotoXY(5, 5);
        cout << "                                                                 " << endl;
    }
   
    }
    while(a == 0);
        
        
        
        
        _getch();
 
        return 0;
}
Last edited on
Disch (13742)
I would recommend not using the console and using a lib better suited for games... like SFML.

Other than that, you shouldn't be hardcoding the drawing of a room like that. Your world/map should be stored in some kind of array, and then your drawing code should just iterate over the array and draw the appropriate tile at the appropriate position.

Here's a very simple example (but a bad implementation):

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// this should be a dynamically created/modified array containing your map
char map[][] = {
"##########",
"#........#",
"#........#",
"#........#",
"#........#",
"#........#",
"##########"
};


for(int y; ...)
{
  cout << map[y] << '\n';
}
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