Text Adventure Question

[chekovbester]

I am new to VB.net but know enough to kind of dive in. I want to make a text adventure but I am having problems in how I want to store the data for inventory items, characters and such. Right now, I have three rooms but a lot of if and then statements on how to tell if they should appear in your (listboxes) inventory or items in room box.

 

Inventory is stored in one list box and items that are in the room (if you haven't already picked it up) are listed in another. I have GET, LOOK, DROP, etc buttons.

 

Is there a class or module I can use to refer to to help look for which items you have and don't have?

 

Thanks!

[Machaira]

This is very old, but you can check out my tutorial over at Lucky's here. There shouldn't be much problem translating it to VB.NET

[chekovbester]

Well, here is what I need help with.

 

This is going to be a button oriented game. So, if I go "north", I've been coding the information about each room that can be reached by going north in the north button section of my code. I want to be able to put this somewhere else, say in a module or a class.

 

Any tips on that or links to sites?

 

Thanks,

Brian

[Optikal]

I would create a cRoom class, that contains all the data for a certain room. Inside the class have pointers for North/South/East/West that point to the instance of the cRoom class for the rooms connecting to this one.