Text-based game in Visual Basic

[fury6000]

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.

 

[Faskist]

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

 

[Swan]

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.

 

[Faskist]

.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.

 

[Stuart]

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.

 

[Faskist]

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.

 

[Stuart]

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