Thread: Beginner Help

Do the following 4 things:
1) rename int main(void) to int play_game(void)
2) add the main() function I posted to your program file
3) move the system("pause"); from the play_game() function to the main function right before the return 0;
4) put the play_game() function prototype (int play_game();) right after the #includes

That's the easiest way for right now, and it separates your game from the rest of the program. If you make any changes to how your game works, the main() function doesn't have to change at all, and changes to the main() function won't affect the play_game() function either. Keeping things separated like this makes it easier to make changes without messing things up.

For example, if you want to put up a title screen before you actually get into the game, you could write a function to do that and have your main() call it before going into the while loop that calls play_game().

There are probably a lot of other changes you might want to make, but I am only addressing "going back to the top without goto" here.

Programming can get very complicated. Don't let that discourage you though.

That's actually one of the changes I was talking about. play_game() doesn't need to return anything, so it should probably be void play_game().

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