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Beginner's Guide to Roguelike Development (Updated!)
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Craig
Jun 5, 2012, 2:17:22 PM6/5/12
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Hi all,
About a few *cough* years *cough* ago, I started a little project
called "The C/C++ Programmer's Guide to ASCII Games". In it were four
articles written starting from moving the ubiquitous @ around a black
screen and ending with a map you can walk around and open and close
doors with; with input, fixes and comments from many in this group.
A wedding, a new job and two startup ventures later, the guide sat
idle. In the past few months, I've received some emails asking me
where the rest of it is. With a swift kick in the ass by my wife and
the comments of some very encouraging people I've dusted off the
guide, added three more articles, rewrote the old articles in a more
visually appealing manner and gave it a new home for quicker updates.
If you're interested, take a peek at the new home:
http://www.kathekonta.com/rlguide/index.html
Comments and commentary are most welcome. Doubly so if you're a newbie
to programming and/or game development.
A big thank you goes out to Rachel Elizabeth Dillon who hosted the old
guide (and other RL-scene boosting projects) for so many years.
Cheers!
- Craig
About a few *cough* years *cough* ago, I started a little project
called "The C/C++ Programmer's Guide to ASCII Games". In it were four
articles written starting from moving the ubiquitous @ around a black
screen and ending with a map you can walk around and open and close
doors with; with input, fixes and comments from many in this group.
A wedding, a new job and two startup ventures later, the guide sat
idle. In the past few months, I've received some emails asking me
where the rest of it is. With a swift kick in the ass by my wife and
the comments of some very encouraging people I've dusted off the
guide, added three more articles, rewrote the old articles in a more
visually appealing manner and gave it a new home for quicker updates.
If you're interested, take a peek at the new home:
http://www.kathekonta.com/rlguide/index.html
Comments and commentary are most welcome. Doubly so if you're a newbie
to programming and/or game development.
A big thank you goes out to Rachel Elizabeth Dillon who hosted the old
guide (and other RL-scene boosting projects) for so many years.
Cheers!
- Craig
Björn Ritzl
Jun 5, 2012, 5:01:20 PM6/5/12
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On Tuesday, 5 June 2012 20:17:22 UTC+2, Craig wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> About a few *cough* years *cough* ago, I started a little project
> called "The C/C++ Programmer's Guide to ASCII Games". In it were four
> articles written starting from moving the ubiquitous @ around a black
> screen and ending with a map you can walk around and open and close
> doors with; with input, fixes and comments from many in this group.
>
--snip--
> Hi all,
>
> About a few *cough* years *cough* ago, I started a little project
> called "The C/C++ Programmer's Guide to ASCII Games". In it were four
> articles written starting from moving the ubiquitous @ around a black
> screen and ending with a map you can walk around and open and close
> doors with; with input, fixes and comments from many in this group.
>
>
> If you're interested, take a peek at the new home:
> http://www.kathekonta.com/rlguide/index.html
>
> Comments and commentary are most welcome. Doubly so if you're a newbie
> to programming and/or game development.
>
> A big thank you goes out to Rachel Elizabeth Dillon who hosted the old
> guide (and other RL-scene boosting projects) for so many years.
>
> Cheers!
Good stuff!
> If you're interested, take a peek at the new home:
> http://www.kathekonta.com/rlguide/index.html
>
> Comments and commentary are most welcome. Doubly so if you're a newbie
> to programming and/or game development.
>
> A big thank you goes out to Rachel Elizabeth Dillon who hosted the old
> guide (and other RL-scene boosting projects) for so many years.
>
> Cheers!
Why don't you put all of the articles on Roguebasin (http://roguebasin.roguelikedevelopment.org/index.php/Main_Page) as well?
> - Craig
Regards,
Björn
narf_the_mouse
Jun 6, 2012, 3:10:38 AM6/6/12
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Roguelike code.
For some reason, whenever I start doing a Roguelike, I get the urge to
vastly over-complicate things.
*Vastly*
I think it's due to the inherent experimental nature of them.
Anyway, looking foward to the rest of them. :)
narf_the_mouse
Jun 6, 2012, 4:23:59 AM6/6/12
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Anyway, I need to stop coding and get to sleep.
Craig
Jun 6, 2012, 11:50:59 AM6/6/12
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On Jun 6, 2:23 am, narf_the_mouse <lrgmo...@telus.net> wrote:
> > Just did the first four tutorials. Should be helpful for writing simpler
> > Roguelike code.
>
> > For some reason, whenever I start doing a Roguelike, I get the urge to
> > vastly over-complicate things.
>
> > *Vastly*
Ha ha, thanks! That's exactly what I was going for: get something up
> > Just did the first four tutorials. Should be helpful for writing simpler
> > Roguelike code.
>
> > For some reason, whenever I start doing a Roguelike, I get the urge to
> > vastly over-complicate things.
>
> > *Vastly*
quick and dirty and begin to get more sophisticated after.
> There are a few bugs, such as misspelled variable names.
>
> Anyway, I need to stop coding and get to sleep.
the guide better, man.
Thanks!
peczuli...@gmail.com
Jun 9, 2012, 1:08:08 PM6/9/12
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narf_the_mouse
Jun 10, 2012, 6:08:00 PM6/10/12
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However, what I remember is mostly a few mis-spelled variable names,
such as alternately TILE_NONE and TILE_EMPTY.
muresanv...@gmail.com
Jul 23, 2012, 2:15:50 PM7/23/12
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Hello,
Saddly i dont know how to install that console :(
I need some help,please!
Saddly i dont know how to install that console :(
I need some help,please!
goomb...@gmail.com
Jul 27, 2012, 12:43:30 AM7/27/12
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On Tuesday, June 5, 2012 1:17:22 PM UTC-5, Craig wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> About a few *cough* years *cough* ago, I started a little project
> called "The C/C++ Programmer's Guide to ASCII Games". In it were four
> Hi all,
>
> About a few *cough* years *cough* ago, I started a little project
> articles written starting from moving the ubiquitous @ around a black
> screen and ending with a map you can walk around and open and close
> doors with; with input, fixes and comments from many in this group.
>
> A wedding, a new job and two startup ventures later, the guide sat
> idle. In the past few months, I've received some emails asking me
> screen and ending with a map you can walk around and open and close
> doors with; with input, fixes and comments from many in this group.
>
> A wedding, a new job and two startup ventures later, the guide sat
> where the rest of it is. With a swift kick in the ass by my wife and
> the comments of some very encouraging people I've dusted off the
> guide, added three more articles, rewrote the old articles in a more
> visually appealing manner and gave it a new home for quicker updates.
>
> If you're interested, take a peek at the new home:
> visually appealing manner and gave it a new home for quicker updates.
>
> http://www.kathekonta.com/rlguide/index.html
>
> Comments and commentary are most welcome. Doubly so if you're a newbie
> to programming and/or game development.
>
> A big thank you goes out to Rachel Elizabeth Dillon who hosted the old
> guide (and other RL-scene boosting projects) for so many years.
>
> Cheers!
>
> - Craig
This is a really fantastic tutorial. First and foremost thank you for posting it.
>
> A big thank you goes out to Rachel Elizabeth Dillon who hosted the old
> guide (and other RL-scene boosting projects) for so many years.
>
> Cheers!
>
> - Craig
I have one question, do you know of an equally effective tutorial for Java? Java is my main language but I would REALLY love to strengthen my familiarity with the language by creating a Roguelike.
Thank you for any info.
funny...@gmail.com
Jul 30, 2012, 8:51:53 PM7/30/12
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Although your tutorial has been great and I've followed it through, I'm unable to compile any of the code provided, it looks to be an issue with "Console.h", as my compiler thinks that all of my console commands are undeclared. Any thoughts?
yam655
Aug 4, 2012, 10:38:59 AM8/4/12
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On Tuesday, June 5, 2012 2:17:22 PM UTC-4, Craig wrote:
> About a few *cough* years *cough* ago, I started a little project
> called "The C/C++ Programmer's Guide to ASCII Games". In it were four
> articles written starting from moving the ubiquitous @ around a black
> screen and ending with a map you can walk around and open and close
> doors with; with input, fixes and comments from many in this group.
I have one nit to pick.
> About a few *cough* years *cough* ago, I started a little project
> called "The C/C++ Programmer's Guide to ASCII Games". In it were four
> articles written starting from moving the ubiquitous @ around a black
> screen and ending with a map you can walk around and open and close
> doors with; with input, fixes and comments from many in this group.
You call it a C/C++ guide, yet all the example code is non-object-oriented C++. The library and header you provide is exclusively a C++ library and header, yet there is no object oriented design in the examples. It's the worst of both worlds.
So what you have is a non-object-oriented C++ programmer's guide to writing roguelike games.
If you were to change your example code (and convenience library) to straight C, you get implicit C++ support (you could even have a section about making it object-oriented) so such thing would be a C/C++ guide. However, if you write everything in C++, it is just a C++ guide. Shoot, with the header and helper library written for plain C, you could even have a section for converting it to D and call it a C/C++/D guide. (D supports C libraries but not C++ libraries. Even Basic and Assembly typically support C libraries easily.)
Oh, another point. The way you're writing the code is significantly different than the Curses library you mention. If you're going to recommend Curses, you should either complete your support library so you can have a Curses compatible version it or you should just have folks use pdcurses from the start.
pdcurses <http://pdcurses.sourceforge.net/> has good Windows support, but doesn't support nearly the same features as ncurses. (Only 16 colors for pdcurses, compared to the 256 colors with redefinable colors with ncurses when using a properly configured terminal.)
This also means that if you switch your examples to pdcurses you get near immediate support for other operating systems. ("conio.h" is a DOS-ism. Oops. I mean Windows-ism.)
Good luck!
Cheers,
Steven Black
sshid...@gmail.com
Nov 23, 2012, 3:17:08 PM11/23/12
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вторник, 5 июня 2012 г., 21:17:22 UTC+3 пользователь Craig написал:
Secondly, I also want to ask the same question that funny...@gmail.com did: how to compile source? I've tried MinGW and Visual Studio to do this, but both of them say me that all calls to functions is unresolved...
> About a few *cough* years *cough* ago, I started a little project
>
> called "The C/C++ Programmer's Guide to ASCII Games". In it were four
>
> articles written starting from moving the ubiquitous @ around a black
>
> screen and ending with a map you can walk around and open and close
>
> doors with; with input, fixes and comments from many in this group.
First of all, I also want to thank you for so interesting and useful tutorial! =)
>
> called "The C/C++ Programmer's Guide to ASCII Games". In it were four
>
> articles written starting from moving the ubiquitous @ around a black
>
> screen and ending with a map you can walk around and open and close
>
> doors with; with input, fixes and comments from many in this group.
Secondly, I also want to ask the same question that funny...@gmail.com did: how to compile source? I've tried MinGW and Visual Studio to do this, but both of them say me that all calls to functions is unresolved...
tehb...@googlemail.com
Nov 26, 2012, 3:27:11 PM11/26/12
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Hello Guys, Hey Craig,
I was very pleased to stumple upon this as it looks very informative and well written. Two other people asked about actually compiling the code, and I seem to have the same problem - I am using VS2010 and i can not get the console library to work unfortunately, even though I have tried everything i could come up with, using the project's properties.
I am sure there is an easy solution to this and would be happy to get one.
Thanks for your Time.
I was very pleased to stumple upon this as it looks very informative and well written. Two other people asked about actually compiling the code, and I seem to have the same problem - I am using VS2010 and i can not get the console library to work unfortunately, even though I have tried everything i could come up with, using the project's properties.
I am sure there is an easy solution to this and would be happy to get one.
Thanks for your Time.
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