Thread: Text adventure game GUI

Since there has been a rash of recent questions about text games I decided to cook up a little framework in MFC that will greatly aid in the presentation of the game. Since presentation is really not about the game this can let you concentrate on the game and story rather than the nitty gritty of displaying information.

It is currently setup as an MFC SDI doc/view application with a splitter window. The top pane is controlled by the RespView class and the bottom view is controlled by the ParserView class.

I'll provide basic text functions and some other utility functions but the parser code and display code will be up to the programmer.

Here is a screenshot illustrating the two views.

If anyone is interested in using this you must at the bare minimum have the standard edition of MSVC 2005. This will not work with Express. Please let me know if you are interested in using this and I will explain more about how to use this framework. It's actually quite simple.

I'd like to play around with that, I need something to get me motivated to program again, making a simple text game would be fun. The thing is I only have the express edition of VC2005..

I have modified settings to make it work with win32 apps tho, it may work.

Shamino, Win32 is fine with express, but MFC isn't included, and it is intended that you can't use MFC with express.

Originally Posted by abachler

performance is important, development time is (mostly) not.

Funny, that's exactly the opposite of what nearly all my university courses (including the one about efficient programming), plus nearly all the things I've read on the web, say.

It will work with Express Editions if you install the Platform SDK.

No, it won't. The EE doesn't have MFC. Nor does the PlatformSDK.

Originally Posted by brewbuck

-- at some crappy code house with huge turnover where priorities are set by smoking a lot of cannabis and praying to the oracle.

Sounds like fun to be quite honest.