New Game I'm Making

[MasterBanana]

Hey. I have an idea for a game called "Staff of Magius". It's an RPG and I have some stuff that I'm working on for it.
Here's the stuff I have for it so far:

-characters house (you can drop off your items)
-town
-dungeon you start in
-function for first official dungeon

I'm having some trouble with the house you can drop some stuff in. The function for dropping stuff off won't let me use a global array for some reason, and I wanted some tips on how to make it work.

If you could give me some ideas, that would be great.

[zb0S216C]

Ideas about what, exactly? Features?

1) Shops
2) NPC interaction
3) Make your own weapons & armour
4) Skills

_Wazzak

[MrHutch]

This would be a whole lot easier if you posted a code snippet of the function.

Also, global arrays (for that matter, global anything) are generally considered bad programming practice. Why do they need to be global?

[MasterBanana]

First, the ideas. I already got some ideas from a friend of mine for magic crystals that enhance your abilities and stuff.

Well, it needs to be global because I have two separate functions for depositing items and withdrawing items. I did not know if there was an easier way to do it, so I just went with that. And secondly, for the item dropping itself, here's an example for the code (it's not the whole thing, just a work in progress):

cout<<"Which would you like to drop?\r\n";
cin >> item_drop;
switch ( item_drop ){
case 1:
house_storage(0) = item_index1;
break;
default:
return 0;
break;
}

I don't know if this is the best way to do it (I'm still a beginner at c++), so if there's a better way to do it, please help me.