I need a bit of help. I am in a QBasic programming class at school, which I have mastered. For our final exam, we must come up with a text based game. I am having trouble comming up with an idea. I would like to stray away from RPG's, since everybody else is already doing them. I was thinking an RTS but I am not sure. Anybody have any ideas of what I could do? Is their anything to do besides an RPG or RTS? Thanks. EDIT: It also must be teacher appropriate. [edited by - Brerick on December 17, 2002 8:03:50 PM]

adventure ?
a football manager ?
a drug wars style simulation ?
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I''m going to assume that Hangman wouldn''t be good enough

You could do Scrabble. The text-based board would be easy, and you could download a text-based library file somewhere; then you just write a simple AI that looks at all possible legal moves (that is, all moves which would create a word) and picks the one that gives the best score.

It''d be text-based, but you''d get the chance to be a little more creative and artistic with things. Like, different colored letters if they''re on a points square.

Superpig
- saving pigs from untimely fates, and when he''s not doing that, runs The Binary Refinery.

chess, checkers...

board games..

card games...

a hacking simulator...

Make an rts online. Your teacher is gooing to like you if you do so

Kevin

You run smell computer corp. your trying to make the best selling PC however the largest demographic is very choosey and you have to configure a PC which appeals to them, and sell x amount of comps in x amount of days.

An idea albeit a crappy one.

I was thinking about making an rts but i am not sure how to make the random attacks work and the win condition work. i think i may have a good enough economy down but it needs some help. any ideas?

Missle command
tetris
falldown

I use QBasic sometimes (http://www.gbgames.com is my game review site), and I was thinking...wouldn''t a turn based strategy game be easier?

And I would suggest looking up text-based games on google. You might find out how they implemented the different genres outside of RPG and adventure games.

Currently I am making an Ultimate Frisbee game with a text based interface. Use |-\/ for players which give a (rough) idea of the direction of each player. Use background colors to signify different teams and use a different foreground color to show which player has the frisbee, if someone does in fact have the frisbee.


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Drew Vogel