What you think about Idea to come back to console for one big project..?

Nerijus Vil?inskas · 2011-03-10T13:12:03

Although I have programmed for SDL over month and created Tic Tac Toe I still have a dream of creating C++ RPG (it is not my favourite genre, but for text based game it fits perfectly), and i mean not 300 lines of code project, I want to do big RPG from scratch with all cool things - combat system, storyline, text command processing and etc. I think this is not easy project, it will be real challenge to me cause I have programmed for several years, but i did big "not coding" periods in my programming "career", so to sum up I have programmed over year, but It is actually good idea to come back from SDL (just started, next week I plan to create Pong )to text based console? Although, I'm planning to do this after 2 or 3 weeks, cause i must to create pong in SDL first. So, basically it is my dream... What do you think about it, and it is worth doing it? Maybe I will strenghten my C++ knowledge, cause I'm not planning to do some most obviuos beginner stuff, actually I want to create whole world and system, firstly I'm planning to go in design phase and this phase will took "some" time. What's all. Thank you. I hope it may not sound silly, it is just my little dream.... PLEASE READ IT |||| P.S I'm very curiuos about learning scripting and embedding it in my C++ code, I want to try Lua, but i don't know where to start... Can you give me helping hand? I have a really silly dream what i can implement my scipts (most likely Lua) in this console RPG game, just curiuos to learn how to do it... Maybe I can edit storyline , enemy and item stats and other various things with scripting... P.S. Other way of doing it - I can also implement simple graphics in console just to represent map, highlight player choise, show stats, show this in different colors, for this i would create some sort of drawing engine, does windows have capability of doing this? I heard what <windows.h> have all needed function... Have any ideas about it, it would really nice to avoid just white text on black screen.... P.S. Storyline could be based on cyberpunk theme... Just thinking know. And definately it might have plenty of classes

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Started by kaktusas2598 March 08, 2011 06:57 PM

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kaktusas2598

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March 10, 2011 07:12 AM

Thanks for answers, I will start designing it after finish pong clone...

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wurstbrot

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March 10, 2011 07:50 AM

Since it seems like you don't know about it yet: There's a great library for creating text-based games, libtcod (a.k.a. "The Doryen Library"). Basically it provides its own text console implementation, which has lots of advantags over the "real" text console like

much faster and flicker-free
custom fonts & font sizes
built-in mouse and keyboard support
easy to use colorizing options
some built-in game mechanics algorithms (line of sight, pathfinding)
...?

I have toyed around with it before and i can highly recommend it.

kaktusas2598

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March 10, 2011 01:12 PM

Thanks for recommendation, but i already decided what i will create console in SDL and simply render text with SDL_Ttf

Deltron Zero and Automator.

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