Programming word games?

by **egarayblas** » Oct 22, 2003 @ 3:31pm

I'm actually considering a simple word game in my spare time while working on a bigger project.

I was just wondering, what's the best method to store all those words that I will use in my game? Will I be better off learning ADO CE and storing everything in a database? Or use a resource file? Or just use a plain "external" text file? Any advice from those who have experience working w/ these kinds of games?

Thanks in advance!

Erick

by **Dan East** » Oct 22, 2003 @ 4:33pm

by **andyclap** » Oct 22, 2003 @ 4:38pm

by **mlepage** » Oct 22, 2003 @ 11:47pm

by **egarayblas** » Oct 23, 2003 @ 3:26am

Dan: Thanks for the tip. You're right, I think I'm better off just using my own format.

Andyclap: What you mentioned is very interesting. I'll try to research on that from the net. Got any quick links where I can start with btw? Thanks!

by **okku** » Oct 23, 2003 @ 7:29am

by **andyclap** » Oct 23, 2003 @ 10:32am

by **refractor** » Oct 23, 2003 @ 12:26pm

by **mlepage** » Oct 23, 2003 @ 4:30pm

by **refractor** » Oct 23, 2003 @ 4:37pm

by **mlepage** » Oct 23, 2003 @ 4:52pm

by **egarayblas** » Oct 25, 2003 @ 2:01am

Guys, in line with this topic, how do you efficiently parse a short word into separate letters? For example I have a TCHAR variable containing the word "BOY", how do I parse it such that I can have it like my_char[0] = "B", my_char[1] = "O", my_char[2] = "Y"? Mine is working but I'm not sure I'm doing it right and there maybe a simpler way to go about this. Thanks!

by **mlepage** » Oct 25, 2003 @ 4:03am

I would just use std::basic_string<_TCHAR>.

Then, str[0] is the first _TCHAR, str[1] is the second, and so on.

Further, you have all the standard string algorithms (like searching and replacing) at your disposal.

by **mlepage** » Oct 27, 2003 @ 8:42am

Programming word games?

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