I''m just wondering, how many lines of code are in a standard simple text RPG (not Rogue-style)? Mine seems to be so long, and I''ve hardly got anything done. It has like 600 lines of actual code, commenting..., and only the opening menu (pure text) is usable. I have made character setup, and started on items, though. The source is viewable at www.angelfire.com/wizard/qotf How long should I expect the code to be, including spaces and comments??

Keep counting buddy. If you intend to hard-code the whole thing, and include a decent sized story, I suspect it will be much longer.

This is more of an implementation thing, but you may want to hard-code only the engine, which then reads from separate data files written in plain text combined with simple scripting tags. That way, you can write scenarios, locations etc. separate from the game code itself and have more flexibility in writing them. Having to recompile every time you find a spelling mistake can get to be tiresome. Or are you already doing this?

At any rate, 600 lines of code isn''t much as programs go. Even relatively simple text games can require some pretty fancy coding, and depending on the complexity of the game''s options, it may get up there in length. Keep pluggin'', though... it''s probably going to be hard, but it looks like you''ve chosen a doable project. I mean, not to name names or anything, but nobody is going to create a full 3D MMORPG by himself.

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Thanks for the help + support.

Anyway, right now, the structure is coming together, so there isn''t much output, but once that''s done, things will come quickly.

Check back some time!

Yea man. I started one but didn't finish (although I should have) and I barely got any of the story done, but I had shops, fighting, cities, and even a innovative little "world map" so you could go back to places you've already been, but that was very simple and I could think of a few things right now to fix it, and all that was over 1300 lines of badly written code (it was my first attempt at a game, waddaya expect?) I actually just found it, and I just might start back on it again, it's better than I remember.

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[edited by - Hibiki_Konzaki on October 1, 2002 11:00:30 PM]

Cool! If you don''t mind, could I maybe take a look at your code for some guidance?

You get to a point with coding Text Based RPGs where your ability to think is more useful than your knowledge in C++.