Need help with Text Based C++ games

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• Unknown

  June 1999

  : Where can i go to learn how to make text based games in c++ ?.. I would like to look at some source code too for ideas and ect.. ect. plz help thx.

  
  Here's some code for making a guy (a smiley face) walk around.

  
  #include // these includes are stdio.h and conio.h. Only conio.h is really needed, stdio.h is put there just out of habit.
  
  #include

  
  #define UP 72 // Characters the arrow keys return from keyboard.
  
  #define DOWN 80
  
  #define LEFT 75
  
  #define RIGHT 77

  
  
  
  int main () {
  
  char c;
  
  int x,y, sizex=20, sizey=10;

  
  textcolor(15);
  
  textbackground(0);
  
  clrscr();
  
  // Change background color to 0 (black), and clear screen.

  
  textbackground(1);
  
  // Change background color to 1 (blue)

  
  // This for statement draws an "arena" sizex X sizey in the upper left corner of screen.
  
  for (y=0; y
  {
  
  for (x=0; x
  cprintf("
  ");
  
  }

  
  // main loop function

  
  x=sizex/2; // Set X and Y to be at center of arena
  
  y=sizey/2;
  
  while (c!=27)
  
  {
  
  gotoxy(x,y); // Moves cursor to specified coordinantes.
  
  cprintf("%c", 0x02); //Prints out a smiley face (ASCII char #2).
  
  gotoxy(x,y); // Moves cursor under the guy (looks nicer and used for erasing).

  
  c=getch(); // Reads characters from keyboard.
  
  if (c==0) c=getch(); // Detects arrow scancodes, they have a 0 character and then another character, we use only the second character.
  
  cprintf(" "); //Erases the guy (so he doesn't leave a trail).

  
  if ((c==UP) && (y>1)) y--; //If keyboard returns UP and if the Guy (the smiley) CAN go up (as in he must stay in the arena).
  
  if ((c==DOWN) && (y
  if ((c==LEFT) && (x>1)) x--;
  
  if ((c==RIGHT) && (x
  }
  
  return 0;
  
  }
  
  
  
  
  
• Unknown

  June 1999

  The code isn't the way it was printed out. You will need to copy it out of the text box below the message and remove all the preceding ">"s.

  
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