Haunted House

Devlog

• Postmortem
  April 11, 2019 by MachJacob#haunted-house, #llp, #postmortem

  The game is finished. I passed, with my assessor impressed at some of my work. The feedback he gave primarily related to my use of static memory and how I didn't use enums. I did not use any dynamic... Continue reading
• Additional Functionality
  April 11, 2019 by MachJacob#haunted-house, #llp

  Since the last update, I have introduced a lot of game functionality. Getting the text input was the most significant hurdle, and now that it is complete, it has been smooth sailing. I have added the... Continue reading

  
• Text Input!
  April 07, 2019 by MachJacob#haunted-house, #llp

  I worked out a clean way of implementing the player input. After reading through the documentation for string in C++, I learned about the push_back and pop_back functions. Whenever the game receives a... Continue reading

  
• Player Location
  April 07, 2019 by MachJacob#haunted-house, #llp

  I've found a simple way to implement player location. The whole map is just an array of 64 Rooms, so the player location can be stored as an int. The movement function will simply add or subtract 1 or... Continue reading
• The port begins
  January 04, 2019 by MachJacob#llp, #haunted-house

  I have started the process of porting the game. The first thing I immediately saw needed to be done was making classes for both rooms and items. The Room class contained information on each of the six... Continue reading
• Starting Point
  November 18, 2018 by MachJacob#haunted-house, #llp

  The BASIC version of the game is complete and tested. As I worked on this, I realised how tedious it could get, but it did give me an idea of the struggles that programmers went through back then. Put... Continue reading