Text adventure game GUI

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10-27-2007
VirtualAce

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.
10-31-2007
Shamino

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.
10-31-2007
indigo0086

My Eyes!!!!
10-31-2007
Wraithan

Shamino, Win32 is fine with express, but MFC isn't included, and it is intended that you can't use MFC with express.
10-31-2007
abachler

Why woudl you want to use MFC anyway, all it does is bog down your performance.

P.S. I like spending a whole day implementing a stateful menu, because when its said and done my menu runs 10 times faster than yours, and performance is important, development time is (mostly) not.
10-31-2007
CornedBee

Quote:

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.
10-31-2007
Perspective

Quote:

Originally Posted by CornedBee

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.

Industry would agree with you too.
10-31-2007
TylerMoyer

It will work with Express Editions if you install the Platform SDK.
11-01-2007
CornedBee

No, it won't. The EE doesn't have MFC. Nor does the PlatformSDK.
11-01-2007
brewbuck

Quote:

Originally Posted by abachler

P.S. I like spending a whole day implementing a stateful menu, because when its said and done my menu runs 10 times faster than yours, and performance is important, development time is (mostly) not.

Good luck getting a job with that sort of outlook on things. Actually, you might -- at some crappy code house with huge turnover where priorities are set by smoking a lot of cannabis and praying to the oracle. And you certainly won't find ME working there.

If industry is not your bag, then write code however you feel like it. Just giving a piece of advice.
11-01-2007
Shamino

Quote:

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.
11-07-2007
VirtualAce

There is nothing wrong with using MFC as opposed to creating my own Win32 wrapper which would take much longer and probably would not be as good.

But if you want to reinvent the wheel then be my guest. I was not aware that text adventure games were performance oriented.