Whats the best way to go about doing this in a Textbased Fighting Engine

[struntz]

Hello everyone!!


My question is about how am i suppose to make this work, i just need simple things in my fighting engine, its all texted based....

I need monsters, but where do i place them in memory? im using VB 6.0 by the way....

and i need a place to show whats going on, like for instance, you have been hit by Lancer for 30 points(meaning u lost 30 health points)

now where could i display this?

and where do i place the monsters/weapons in memory?

do i make a moduel?
or what?

IF u can post a small code to get me started i would be very thankfull!


Thanks for yoru time :D

[SteveCRM]

I would always have it in the corner somewhere (Im guessing your whole screen isn't a textbox)...by the way, how do you make a text based fighting game? :confused:

I would store it in a variable, and put that into a file if you ever close the game.

[HarryW]

Do you mean like in text-based MUDs? Where you just type 'kill chicken' or something and then you start getting beaten up by said chicken? ;) (That's what always heppened to me anyway)

Are there any graphics whatsoever, or just text, and once the fighting starts in there any user input about the fight, except for 'run away'?

[SteveCRM]

sounds like you have to type fast...how does it understand every command? (imagining one loooooooong select case) :)

[kedaman]

naah Steve, big select case would be plain stupid :) Maybe you use some kind of script engine ;)

I guess you can make ascii graphics with colors, that would rock for a text based game :) I don't like command lines too much, maybe you could have a list of commands instead to choose from..

[da_silvy]

So is it going to be like a mud?

No offense but i don't really like MUDS, they take too long and are dumb

[HarryW]

No offence but I think you smell and your taste in games sucks ;)

Sorry I just think it's funny when people say "no offense but..." :)

I don't mean what I said btw, so no offense :D

[kedaman]

no offence, hehe, usually you offend people, i've seen it many times and as soon as it starts with "no offence but.." then you probably get offended ;)

[da_silvy]

ok, well i think i better stop offending ppl then

ok |>?

goodbye