Thread: Help With Health in Games

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    Hey, I'm writing a Game in C that is text based. I've written almost the complete game, but it isn't going to be fully complete unless I have a way for my Character to die.

    I've looked through several books and I just can't find out how to answer my question, so I turned to here.

    My question is:

    How do I add a "health system" to my game. that deals with just numbers. Kinda like an RPG, when My character gets into battle..i need for the "bad" guy to generate a hit and take off a random amount of health..

    Do i need to set a global HEALTH variable and add a few while loops or what? .

    Please Help.
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    Code:
    player.health -= rand() % enemy.strength;
    if ( player.heath <= 0 ) {
       requiem( player, "he was a valiant warrior" );
    }
    Subtract from the player's health, some random value based on the strength on the enemy. A stronger enemy can therefore do more damage.
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    Thanks alot ..I'll try it
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    Thanks alot ..I'll try it
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    If you have a game loop (problably) , do what salem said, then make a function that checks if the characters health is 0 or less (dead) and inline it. Then, if it returns true, do something.

    since im bored and its chrissie....

    Code:
    (game loop....)
    for (;;)
        {
        Some Stuff
        Some Stuff
        if ( CharacterDead () )
            {
             cout << "hello world!"
            }
         yadda yaa....
        }
    
    inline bool CharacterDead ()
    {
        if ( Character is dead..... )
            { return true; }
       else 
            { return false }
    }
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    i have a question
    why inline?

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    Thumbs up

    Thanks I got it..game is working great..I've posted just the first little tiny section on the game submit thing on this message board. Its the game small world..its sucks right now..cause its just beta and no where near finished..it will have more and better features.

    Thanks for all your help!
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    It is supposed to be faster though in this case I would say it does not matter a cent if you inline it or not.
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    your code here....

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    inlining?

    Well, what i do if a function gets really huge ( over a screen ) is break parts of it off into inline voids (or ints or whatever) and put them directly after the other function. Is this good practice, or shocking? Maybe i should do some planning so i dont end up with such huge functions

    Maybe i should pull myself away from ut2003 long enough so i can do some art and programming.... but there's some powerful magnets in there somewhere... instagib, anyone?
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