Yeah I did the same thing on a program of mine only i used the keys E=left, D=down, E=up, and F=right. In my program I put it in it's own function so I only had to type PLAYER(); in the main() function. The code is this.
Code:
void player()
{
/* int X and Y tell where the player is
int oldX and oldY tell where the player moved from (to clear that spot)
int X=1, Y=1, oldX, oldY;
char move;
while(1)
{
/* This is where the computer knows where to put
the player and set it up to clear the last place
the player was so you don't see a trail of O's. */
gotoxy(X,Y);
oldX=X;
oldY=Y;
printf("O");
/* This is the part where it gets the input
and sees if they moved left, right, up, or down. */
move=toupper(getch());
switch(move)
{
case 'S':
X--;
points--;
break;
case 'D':
Y++;
points--;
break;
case 'F':
points--;
X++;
break;
case 'E':
Y--;
points--;
break;
default: //if they hit keys other then EDSF print this
gotoxy(1,24);
printf("Move with E, D, S, F\n");
printf("Make your next move.");
move=toupper(getch());
}//end switch
// puts a space where the player was after they moved
gotoxy(oldX, oldY);
printf(" ");
}//end while loop
}//end player
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