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[Alexhans]

Please, I want to know what exactly is this "text code" or program or whatever it is.  How do you write a program like LCS??? Do you use C++ or visual basic or what? (Excuse if Im saying something stupid but my scripting its just beggining to develop in a game creator program and I havent really got confortable with it)

Farewell

Alexhans

[Captain Mayday]

ASCII refers to the general look of the game. That is, using letters of various colours to represent different things while still maintaining a graphical interface and environment. I'm not sure writing these sorts of games is actually limited to any language in particular.

[Toady One]

Yeah, for LCS I used C and Curses -- Curses is just a way to do text a bit easier when you are programming.  You could write a game like LCS with whatever you are using probably.

[Harlander]

There's curses ports for Java and Python, and probably many other languages.

[Toady One]

Are you still writing your game?

[Alexhans]

No, im just experimenting with scripting and various little projects or goals that I intend to accomplish.  When Im ready and have a good project I will take more seriously, till then I take my time.

[Toady One]

It's good to go in small steps so you don't get discouraged.  And the smallest games can still be fun...  although perhaps my examples aren't the best...

[Toady One]

For those that asked, you can grab curses Here.
I haven't tried this implementation though.

Also, I can't reply to private messages if the profile doesn't have "allow members to send private messages" checked "yes".

[ctrlfrk]

I'm stuffing around with ruby at the moment, making a little server that listens on port 23.
So far i can have as many people connected to it as i like, and while they're connected they can draw lines or write text onto the terminal and it updates what is being displayed on all the screens. (Kinda like multiplayer paint, but in ascii, using telnet.exe)
My next goal is to make a little multiplayer "snake" game, but i'm a little stuck with how to do it.
If there was a... wait, i just found a ruby port for ncurses... I wonder if it will work on windows...
Either way, until i've tested, do you think it would be best to keep going as i am, building up my own library of ANSI functions, or try to get this port working? Is curses like super awesome?

[Toady One]

If what you are doing is working for you, there probably isn't much need.  I used curses originally because the other console methods that I knew for Windows had trouble with flicker and locating the cursor.  Back when I was using an old Borland compiler in DOS, I didn't need to download curses because I didn't need an external library to get an acceptable display going.  It was all bundled in with the Borland compiler, whatever it was.