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DarkBASIC Discussion / Project two.

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Technobabble91
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Ok I am setting up a a second challenge for myself. Make a text based trivia program.

Now I think this will be rather complex, and frankly I have No idea where to start.I Do think that for starters I will just have it as a linear program with a fixed list of questions.

I'm off to learn more, and report back success and failures as I see them.

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Technobabble91
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Ok I am running into My first problem. Big one. I can't going through the command list find anything that would help me store the answers. I think either variables or an array, but my second problem Is how do I make it choose?

Oh sheesh My second program is already off to a rocky start, and I'm not even using 3d yet.

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AcP2142
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This should be good. Sorry but I cannot help you with the game itself at all but if you ever need feedback on how it runs I am here. I am personally a noob and as a matter of fact only have a trial version of DarkBASIC at the moment. Just ask me if you ever need anything.

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Posted: 5th Jul 2009 12:25
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If you need help, you should also post the code you have written in a nice little code box so we can look at it and give you advice:



Just highlight your code and hit the "code" button in the top right corner of your post box.

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Posted: 5th Jul 2009 15:45
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As a newcomer, it might be useful for you to check out my new web site.

I've registered a new domain name and I'm in the process of building a completely new web site entirely for my Dark Basic stuff, so there's not a lot there yet.

I'm in the process of re-vamping all my old tutorials and adding some new ones. The one's you might be interested in are already there though.

TDKMan.com

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@ Technobabble91

I forgot about telling you that... Yeah, visit TDK's website. It works wonders... Even I learn new things by reading through it.

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Technobabble91
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Awesome. Thank you for all the advice.

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Technobabble91
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Ok how do I define which key to press?
Like a question is: Green is made of:
(A) Gupies
(B) Red and Blue
(C) Yellow and blue
(D) Green is not a color

How do you Get it to recogniz A B C or D? Sorry if this is a really stupid question.

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pictionaryjr
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You would do something like this, of course the answer would change depending on the question.

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Question... how come you didn't put an input command into that code? Did you figure he would know enough to do that or are you just too stupid. lol

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I did put an input command in it lol.
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Well now I feel stupid.
That was so easy!
(Sulks)
Well thankyou for the help just wish I had thought of it first.

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what? :0 that wasn't there before. lol. i guess i am the stupid one in this case. i am ashamed. hahaha.

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Pictionary gave you a nice example of the simplest way to do this, but if you're going to have multiple questions it's best to store the data somewhere or you'd have to write out the same routines again and again a hundred times!
Depending on how much you know this may go over your head but I'll introduce you to arrays.

Okay, each question has five strings: the question and four answers.
We'll make two arrays to keep this easy to follow.
We'll also need a third array to tell us which answer is correct.

Notice how "correct" doesn't have a "$", that's because it's a numerical array, while the other two are string arrays.
Also note that arrays can use location 0 to store values, remember that.

Next we'll look at how to use these arrays to store our questions...

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Now we need some data to fill those arrays with

You can put data statements anywhere in your program and read the data into single variables or arrays. There is a data pointer that moves along the list every time you read data, you can move this cursor to a label ( eg like_this: ) by using the restore command.

Now we move on to displaying the questions...

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Reading data from an array is done in the same way as writing to it, we just have to call the location in the array.


See how far you can take this code.
Can you ask multiple questions?
Can you keep score of how many correct answers are given?
For extra brownie points can you split the questions into categories that the player can choose from?

Have fun.

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Great work Obese. A lot better than pictionary's but he was just tring to make a simple one that Technobabble would understand. Anyway... I love this quote.
Quote: "For extra brownie points can you split the questions into categories that the player can choose from?"
Since when did we have brownie points on the TGC forums lol.

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I did complete this, but at the same time learned something. I am REALLY bad at logic, and trying to convey logic to a pure logic machine is downright hard. I think i'll stick to making doodles and modeling every now and then.

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