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Have you ever MADE a text-based game?


Randol20

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Well, i visited a web site called http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread5758.html (oh, boy)

 

and this guy was talking about this text-based game he made and i got curious if anyone here ever made one. So if you ever have just post here and talk about whatever about it :) . Oh, i almost forgot, tell me HOW I can make a text-based game. I tried typing "text-based rpg maker" on google but get nothing interesting back!

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I made one on my graphing caculator once.

 

 

 

I think it composed of turning a few corners and fighting some monster. I kind of liked the battle system I came up with (actually had it so it would roll a random number). If I would have spent more time on it (and had not been programing it on a caculator I could have done a lot more.

 

 

 

Maybe someday if I get a C++ compiler on my PC i'll try one.

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I made a semi decent text-based RPG with the C++ programming language, with about 1 month of experience (starting from scratch). Now, I think programming is very boring and just not my style of spending time... But if you are interested in it, it's actually easy to learn. :) I don't believe the "go for the simple ones first or you can never go for C oriented languages". C++ was my first one and I had no problems with it.

 

 

 

I also made a very detailed text based DOS calculator with C++, which is probably one of the least challenging tools to write (but handy to have on your computer if you don't like the click-and-calculate version that comes standard with windows operating systems.. Or if you use Linux.

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Yep, made one on my graphing calculator when I was bored in highschool. Was good enough that more than just me and friends was playing it before it died out.

 

 

 

Yea my friends made one on a graphing calculator. It was pretty simple and you always ended up falling in a hole and dying no matter what you did.

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I made a really simple one in QBASIC when I was very little. Very simple and stupid, I don't even remember the story and it was almost impossible to complete.

 

 

 

Yeah same here. Except mine was about winning Pokemon on the Price is Right :lol:

 

Oh, to be 11 again.

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I don't use a mac anymore, but when I was 11 I wrote a fairly complicated game based in applescript! It had an engine, and you could explore different rooms and go in the compass directions and upstairs and stuff, but no combat system. That was my first ever program. I'll see if I can get a copy up here.

You act like the game community is like the stinking bowels of hell.... In all reality.. its much.. much... worse.

 

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I made one on my calculator during the week of standardized tests in 8th grade. It was about being a drug lord...

 

 

 

I also made one awful game using PHP/MySQL 3 or 4 years ago called "Pirates Don't Cry (they kill people)"

 

 

 

It was a fun way to pass time at least...

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