Elysian Shadows

You're probably looking for something like this: Obliterating "The Grid"

These are some that he's using: http://lazyfoo.net/SDL_tutorials/index.php


More tutorials and links here: http://elysianshadows.com/phpBB3/viewto ... art=999999

Here's another link: Roguelike Dev FAQ

If your head doesn't explode from reading all that, you should be good to go.

Looks pretty competent. You're getting there, keep going. :) Just remember that it takes quite a while to become a master at anything, and don't get discouraged if it seems like it's taking too long. If you really want to program for a living then you should read this, it should give you a good idea...

Read this it's very relevant and interesting.

Which kind of text based rpg did you have in mind?

There's this kind:
Wrath Lands

Or this kind...
Rogue

John Romero made a free text library for C++ to make rogue-like games:
Here is the page for it.

Common problem.

Line 56:

Not really you'd still be using an std::list just accessing it like an array. Oh really? I didn't know you could do that. I might have to use that. Please excuse my ignorance, but as far as I know you can't access a linked list like an array. There's no guarantee that the elements in a list will sh...

Someone was making a Doom RTS, but they gave up. They used the same graphics from the original game.

Check it out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0bI9Gh-afw

Stanford CS Education Library -- Lots of good documents on Pointers, Memory, Lists, Trees, Perl, and other stuff.

Eternally Confuzzled -- Advanced stuff on trees, sorting, hashing, lists, and more.

Edit: Added to OP --Mar

dandymcgee wrote:Thanks, Andrew.

Glad to provide helpful information.

This article is pretty old(1996), but I'm sure you'll find it to be exactly what you're looking for.
http://www.gamedev.net/reference/articl ... cle744.asp

Here's another link that will also help if you haven't already found it.
http://www.gamedev.net/reference/list.asp?categoryid=44

I've been in this city for a very long time and I've only seen it snow like 4 times.

Sure is turning out really good for a quick project.

I found this java remake of ugh on google code:
http://code.google.com/p/ugh/source/bro ... piraya/ugh

It's where I got the graphics.