Hello, I am writing a text based game in C# and i am trying to figure out how to structure the code. How would i impliment objects such as a chair or a torch? Any information would help! thanks!

You mean something you can interact with? You could have a .txt file with a list of objects and the text response. The objects could be denoted by a special symbol like ##, used nowhere else. Then, whenever something is inputted you could search the file for the exact string typed. I don't program in C# (yet) though so I can't give language specifics.

Thanks for the information!

Basicly, im trying to figure out what the best way to create things and be able to access and modify them.

For example:

Lets say I have a torch, a chair and an apple and i want to set atributes to each of them.

is it better to set each item as a class and create a new object for each time one is invoked?

If I were you, I'd have a single class for all items in your game. Each item can be an object of that class and the class would store all the information you need about the object such as the name, description, whether it can be taken and stuff like that.

I'd also have a single class GameObject which posesses a dictionary for the properties. Naturally, you'd have a standard propertyset (Name, Description, etc) that would be part of the main class, but any other attributes that are likely to differ across the different objects would be well stored in a custom Dictionary (just wrap the DictionaryObject and add GetValue/SetValue code). This will allow you to refer to the extended properties by name:

GameObject chair = new GameObject("Wooden Chair");

chair.Properties.SetValue("weight", 100);

Console.WriteLine("The " + chair.Name + " has a weight of " + chair.Properties.GetValue("weight") );


With this method, you could quite easily serialise the object instances to a media set for loading/saving/exchange as it's a simple case of iterating the propertyset and reading/writing into it.

You can also create some helper functions to set up an object, for example if you know you'll be creating 100 chairs, it makes sesne to write a "CreateChair" method to set up all the default property values for the object.