A simple c++/ncurses game where you wander around and do stuff HURR DURR
What can you do in this game? Well, not a whole lot. You can walk around, pick up '$' characters to increase your score, look at the '*' creatures walking around, view the popup help menu, and that's about it.
This game is really just a fun coding exercise for me, but someone who has a bit of experience in C might be able to expand on this to make a simple game with a little more to it, without having to deal with all the complexity of a real graphical framework.
On the other hand, there is something to be said for diving in and trying to learn something like Qt, or SFML, or WxWidgets, or whatever. But I've worked with Qt, which I really like, and done a little bit with SFML, and I have to say that ncurses is easier, smaller and simpler to get started with. To each his own.
This game is mostly C, with a few C++ features used for convenience (like strings and vectors). The wandurr1 game is entirely contained in the file wandurr1.cpp, the other .cpp files in this repository are just examples that help illustrate some basic things like how to use clock_gettime(), how to pass a struct for writing and so on.
The following compile instructions work on Ubuntu, which is a flavor of Debian, which is a type of Linux.
If you don't have an Ubuntu machine, you can either install Ubuntu on your computer at home by learning here: https://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/install-ubuntu-desktop ...or you can create a virtual Ubuntu host at somewhere like digitalocean.com or vultr.com for a few dollars a month. I do not have instructions for how to build on Windows or OS X machines, sorry. :-(
To compile this program on Ubuntu, first install the tools you will need by typing the following command at the shell prompt (you need sudo access):
sudo apt-get install build-essential git libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev
If you don't have sudo access, google "get sudo access ubuntu" in order to run the previous sudo apt-get command.
Then run these commands at the linux shell prompt:
cd ~
mkdir code
cd code
git clone https://github.com/isc1/wandurr.git
cd wandurr
g++ -std=c++11 -Wall -g -o wandurr1 wandurr1.cpp -lncurses
Then run the game by typing this:
./wandurr1
Thanks for stopping by! :-)