C#•13mo ago

❔ Console RPG Game

Hello. Im currently in middle school, and our project is to make an RPG game using console. Sadly we cant use Unity or anything like that to make a graphical game. Is there any way to print things faster? Im planning to make a 2D top view game, but rendering the map takes too much time, and its like a CRT monitor, watching the map appear line by line every sec.

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Jimmacle•13mo ago

it would help to see your current code to get an idea of what might be slow some things off the top of my head would be minimizing the actual Console calls like building up your screen in a buffer beforehand, or dropping down to lower level APIs to manipulate the console buffer directly

Angius•13mo ago

Or using a package that makes it easier, should using 3rd party packages be allowed

TomyOP•13mo ago

I dont have a code yet, I'm just planning in my head, but its smt like map = "##################" "#AATAAARAAAAATAAAA# "#AAATAARAAAAATAAAA# .... A=Air T=Tree R=Road And its getting scaled to screen size So # = "███" "███" "███" And my graphic processor would be like if map[i] == "#": print(...) Im kinda new to c#

Jimmacle•13mo ago

if you don't have anything yet i'd start with building up one large string that you print to the console with one write call then if that's too slow go from there to find a more optimized solution

TomyOP•13mo ago

So print line by line, not process block by block?

Jimmacle•13mo ago

print an entire screen with one Console.Write

TomyOP•13mo ago

ooo, so whole map is 1 print?

Jimmacle•13mo ago

right

TomyOP•13mo ago

Geeeez, gonna be fun to build it But thats a good idea

Angius•13mo ago

The console isn't slow even with really large strings

TomyOP•13mo ago

Thank you soo much

Jimmacle•13mo ago

yeah, it's usually best to know something is slow before trying to optimize it otherwise you might spend time optimizing something that wasn't slow anyway

TomyOP•13mo ago

I had a project and while printing the Fox&Rabbit simulation grid I could see the things appear line by line when the simulation map size was too big

message.txt

TomyOP•13mo ago

Is there any idea how to process the scaling? Because when Map = "###" I cant print ███ ███ ███ then go back lines and print more characters after it ███ ███ ███ ███ ███ ███ Also if I want to color the wall gray, and trees green+brown, how can I do it in 1 print?

Jimmacle•13mo ago

you can using ANSI escape codes to modify the text style assuming the terminal you're using supports them, windows terminal should by default but cmd.exe doesn't

TomyOP•13mo ago

yoo Thats gonna be wild 🔥 Can u give me an example? K = character, # = wall

    public static string map1 =
        @"
##################
#                #
#                #
#       K        #
#                #
#                #
##################
";

    public static string map1 =
        @"
##################
#                #
#                #
#       K        #
#                #
#                #
##################
";

I cant get it working :/

class Palya
{
    public static string palya1 =
        @"
\x1b[31m################\x1b[0m
#                #
#                #
#       \u001B[1m\u001B[33mK\u001B[39m\u001B[22m         #
#                #
#                #
##################";

    public static string palya2 =
@"\x1b[36m################\x1b[0m
#                #
#                #
#                #
#                #
#                #
##################";

    public static void PalyaBetoltes()
    {
        Console.WriteLine("\x1b[36mSzoveg\x1b[0m");
        Console.Write(palya1);
    }
}

class Palya
{
    public static string palya1 =
        @"
\x1b[31m################\x1b[0m
#                #
#                #
#       \u001B[1m\u001B[33mK\u001B[39m\u001B[22m         #
#                #
#                #
##################";

    public static string palya2 =
@"\x1b[36m################\x1b[0m
#                #
#                #
#                #
#                #
#                #
##################";

    public static void PalyaBetoltes()
    {
        Console.WriteLine("\x1b[36mSzoveg\x1b[0m");
        Console.Write(palya1);
    }
}

I might have to look into stringbuilder idk what it is, but it seems like I cant do it with string+writeline

Omnissiah•13mo ago

oh boy, you know the casey muratori/molly rocket case, right?

BlyZe•13mo ago

If you want to use an engine like package you could use this: https://www.nuget.org/packages/ConsoleNexusEngine

ConsoleNexusEngine 2.4.0

A powerful and easy to use engine to create console games

Accord•13mo ago

Was this issue resolved? If so, run /close - otherwise I will mark this as stale and this post will be archived until there is new activity.

TomyOP•13mo ago

._.

Accord•13mo ago

Was this issue resolved? If so, run /close - otherwise I will mark this as stale and this post will be archived until there is new activity.

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