Text-based game in Visual Basic

Okay, so im not good enough yet to work on a real kind of game in Visual Basic 2005 express. But i am curious- is it possible to make a text-based game WITHOUT a lot of trouble in vb 2005 express?

 

I made one in VB6, and .NET and VB6 are...Sort of...Similar. So yeah, I guess you could.

 

You'd probably find this kind of thing easier in C, or Python, or any of the other good languages.

 

.Net is semi-decent considering you use Windows, darby. However, Linux users would indefinitely use C, Java etc.

Or REALBasic *shudders*

fury, its no trouble at all to make text based games. Drag a couple of text boxes, maybe a button or two and you're halfway there.

 

I use the loonix. It actually depends on what you mean by text-based game -- "You are in a square room" and it's ilk are trivial in C, whereas Roguelikes are trivial (Or at least, not as difficult, depending on how complex you make the system) in Pascal.

 

All you vb haters GTFO he asked for help not you saying which programming language and operating system is better.

Ill make an example of how you can make a text based game.

 

Making a text-based game in VB would be more roundabout than making it in another language, and harder for a newbie.

 

It would be the same ammount of work in another language...

Here is an example I made on how to load a map into a multidimensional array from a text file and how to move around the map.

http://www.naruto-uk.co.uk/vb/TxtGame.zip