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[CodenStuff]

Going Retro


I've been spending too much time on PHP and HTML coding recently and wanted to get away from it, so I fired up Visual Studio and set to work on something else. I have to say I've absolutely missed programming in VS, just sitting here typing away and seeing what I can conjure up has been amazing and it feels like the good old days

Anyway, after messing about for several hours I finally decided to try my hand at making a fun little text adventure game - some of you probably won't even know or remember what these are lol. I know a lot of you have asked about how to make a text adventure game in the past though.

Basically its a game you play by typing commands and telling your "character" what to do, no fancy graphics involved but good clean imagination fuelling fun like an interactive storybook.



Yes its pretty basic at the moment with only a few areas to play around in and the "engine" is a bit buggy but I'm working on it and hopefully will have something substantial soon.

The hardest thing about this type of game is figuring out a way to make it all work. Most text adventure type games are written in pure code with thousands and thousands of IF statements checking what you type and then doing the appropriate action, but that is just too much code. I've been trying to come up with a way to simplify it all that will hopefully just let me type my adventure in to a text file or something and then load it and have the app do all the hard work without having to type out lots and lots of code. AND it would make it easy to completely change the story and create different adventures

TextAdventure.zip

You play by typing commands like:

Look at table
Take the pencil
Open door
Go East



Its all in the name of fun cooll;

[clanc789]

The image is currently not showing for me, though I am at the university now, rather than at home, it might be blocked here.

I really like the idea and I hope you can find enough time to finish it from WIP to a full complete program It is something like 'Scribblenauts' right? As I understand it, atleast.

[CodenStuff]

I'm still working on this and have the main game code working quite well, now I'm working on the editor to actually create the game data which is proving a little harder to do lol



Its getting there boogy;

[CodenStuff]

Any Stargate fans?

I've pretty much finished my editor and main game code for the text adventure game.

Now I'm working on actually creating my first game using it all (all this coding and I haven't even made an actual game yet lol). I've decided to base my first game on my favourite TV show and although it will obviously be mainly a text adventure, it will actually include some graphical elements like a gate dialler and interactive puzzles to solve along the way.






Been having lots of fun with this and using a lot of old code and GDI to create a nice UI with animation and stuff to make it look less generic form like. You have no idea how fecking hard it was to make that gate spin in the right spot :lol:

I'll post a demo when its ready and I'll release a basic editor and application for anyone who wants to make their own little adventure game.

Coding is fun

[Usman55]

Seems good. I'd like to know how you coded a code which can be used to code a code.

[clanc789]

Seems good. I'd like to know how you coded a code which can be used to code a code.

Codeception right there :O

[CodenStuff]

A little demo.

You can have a play with the dialling screen but nothing else works yet...still working on it

SGDialDemo.zip

File is large because of the graphics and sound files included.

I can't stop playing with it :lol:

[Usman55]

The UI is amazing. Somehow it reminds me of Iron Man.

[CodenStuff]

Glad you like it

You've discovered my secret identity..I am Iron Man :lol:

[Usman55]

Lol

Where did you find all those symbols?
Did you dissect a frog and copy his bones?