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I want a procedurally generated hunting game where you can travel between different environments and shoot stuff, with the most detail being put into animal variety. Lots of species is good, but I'm talking variants (Indian and African elephants are different!) as well as different colored fur, body sizes and everything. After you kill something you can sell the meat or craft equipment of the leather to show off your achievements. Could have some multiplayer stuff, competitive hunting and such.

Doesn't even need great graphics, I'd still play it if it was 2D topdown perspective, possibly even in ASCII if it manages to convey the feeling of variety.

Well I'm finally ready to move on from Co-op vs AI matches now and actually solo queue normal matches.

Wait, what? You mean to say you've only played Co-op from level 1 to 30? Or am I misunderstanding? 

Why is there "coastline" in the middle of the world map? I may be misunderstanding but I don't think that's how it works.

What's everyone's opinion on global warming?

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Wait, this isn't the IRC? M'bad.

Trying to learn C++, started today. I feel I understand the very basics, but I'm having trouble with while loops. The loop doesn't stop even if the player inputs a valid race. I'm not going for efficiency here, I just want to know where I made an error.

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <sstream>

using namespace std;

string Name;
string Race;
string Class;

int main ()
{
cout << "Welcome to GenericQuest!\n";
cout << "What is your name?\n";
getline (cin, Name);
cout << "What race are you?\n";
int Confirm(0);
while (Confirm==0)
getline (cin, Race);
if (Race == "Human")
Confirm = 1;
else if (Race == "Elf")
Confirm = 1;
else if (Race == "Dwarf")
Confirm = 1;

cout << "What class are you?\n";
getline (cin, Class);
cout << "You are the " << Race << " " << Class << " " << Name << "!\n";
system("PAUSE");
return 0;
}


I'd love to play this game. Problem is I never played the first Cataclysm and have absolutely no idea how to. Halp.

As for tiles, it should be very quick work if you rush it. Most people who don't like ASCII would probably prefer really bad pixel art to ASCII, so you could basically slap some dark green on a canvas and call it grass, a single generic gun icon should work for all firearms, etc.

I sort of want to learn C++ some time, but I feel all books and online tutorials assume you're already a programmer in some language. The only language I'm comfortable with is BYOND (which is simpler than even Game Maker.)

So does anyone know of any good resources for developing stuff in C++? Something that doesn't think I know what a thread or an array is, because I don't. PacmanRL will become reality.

The game is rather shallow at the moment. By that I mean that the gameplay is basically press A then hope the RNG gods bless you. You might want to introduce a stat system that makes an impact, or something along those lines - pretty standard in modern games. Additionally the text of the game is sort of a pain to read since it's mostly white and crammed together, you could color code it a bit more, I think.

Other than that, it's decent enough. A good foundation.

NOTE: Getting on the wrong side of your demographic isn't a good idea - they're the ones you want to play the game.