My first attempt at a text rpg

Hello.
I am pretty much new to programming. I decided to try my hand at programming a text rpg. It isn't that great, but I'm just starting. Please leave comments or criticisms about it. Some critiques on the bollocks story would be cool, too. Please be nice but honest. Thanks :-)



http://www.geocities.com/mysteriousy...tasmagoria.zip

Only there's no code and this is a programming forum ;)

I know :-p I'll post the hacked and slashed source later. I'm a bit pressed on a time right now:-)



EDIT: Here is the source. I know it looks horrible and disgusting, not to mention a clumsy mess. But criticism probably could help me from making more messes of code :-p

http://www.geocities.com/mysteriousy...hantsource.zip

nice job...your next step should be to break up that cpp file into muliple files.
5500 lines is alot of code to peruse all at once. :)

Break code into other files.
Put declarations in header files.
Don't use global variables (or avoid).
Fix your indentation - each block should be indented once and all indentation in the same block level should be consistent.

This is what I can figure out after a small look at the code.

Thanks for the tips guys. But do you know how I can fix the double-click problem? I use the getch() function to gather input from the keyboard, but I have to press twice in order for it to register it. How can I fix that?

With the FAQ of course :)

http://faq.cprogramming.com/cgi-bin/...&id=1043284392

Ha ha, did not see that. Thanks :-p



Edit: Someone pointed out to me the error that caused the double click. It was because I was calling the getch() function twice like

int response;
getch();
response=getch();

I just have to take out the first getch() and the program asks only for one response. Anything else I should do better?

Yeah, you could try to fix what I mentioned. Then you could re-post your code and we can take a look at it again.12
Readability comes first.