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Show HN: Caverns and Kobolds – A Text Based RPG in C++

#1

Post by Akshat412 » Fri, Nov 16, 2018, 5:28 AM UTC

Show HN: Caverns and Kobolds – A Text Based RPG in C++
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Re: Show HN: Caverns and Kobolds – A Text Based RPG in C++

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Post by skibz » Fri, Nov 16, 2018, 12:19 PM UTC

This is a really compelling game! Great work!

So I had a crack at porting your game to macos. [1]

Everything seems to work, except the text/background colour things which depend on some WIN32 stuff.

To make those text/background colours work on platforms other than Windows, ANSI escape codes would have to be used.

1: https://github.com/Akshat412/Caverns-Kobolds/pull/2

Re: Show HN: Caverns and Kobolds – A Text Based RPG in C++

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Post by Akshat412 » Fri, Nov 16, 2018, 1:27 PM UTC

skibz wrote: post #2

This is a really compelling game! Great work! So I had a crack at porting your game to macos. [1] Everything seems to work, except the text/background colour things which depend on some WIN32 stuff. To make those text/background colours work on platforms other than Windows, ANSI escape codes would have to be used. 1: https://github.com/Akshat412/Caverns-Kobolds/pull/2

Hey man, thank you so much for the kind words! It really made my day. Will rewriting the function I made in "resources.h" (setcolor(), from line 682)[1] using ANSI escape codes do the job?

1. https://github.com/Akshat412/Caverns-Kobolds/blob/master/Sou...

Re: Show HN: Caverns and Kobolds – A Text Based RPG in C++

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Post by skibz » Fri, Nov 16, 2018, 1:56 PM UTC

Akshat412 wrote: post #3

skibz wrote: post #2

This is a really compelling game! Great work! So I had a crack at porting your game to macos. [1] Everything seems to work, except the text/background colour things which depend on some WIN32 stuff. To make those text/background colours work on platforms other than Windows, ANSI escape codes would have to be used. 1: https://github.com/Akshat412/Caverns-Kobolds/pull/2

Hey man, thank you so much for the kind words! It really made my day. Will rewriting the function I made in "resources.h" (setcolor(), from line 682)[1] using ANSI escape codes do the job? 1. https://github.com/Akshat412/Caverns-Kobolds/blob/master/Sou...

Yes, exactly.

If you refer to the pull request I opened on your repository, I added a preprocessor conditional in that function for a Windows and non-Windows implementation of the function.

The non-Windows part of the conditional just has to be written.