The Alphabet Farm
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Welcome to the alphabet farm, where we plant seeds and make money!
----Relation to Theme----
The theme was two incompatible genres, so I chose Farming and Text-Based gameplay together to make this.
----The Goal----
There could be many other goals you could make up, but the built in goals are:
1. Make 1000$
2. Make as much money as you can in 365 days.
----The Gameplay----
Gameplay is pretty simple. Each day you decide what you want to do, whether it be planting seeds or going to upgrade. You have 4 options:
1. Plant Seeds
2. Buy upgrades
3. Skip day
4. Buy seeds
Each decision is pretty self explanatory, and you can explore what all the different kinds of seeds are or all the different upgrades.
You start off with 8$ and 10 ABCDE seeds. Oh, and each day you lose 0.25$ for the farm upkeep.
----How do I get started?----
Simple, just extract the ZIP file using an extraction software (I personally use WinRar, but 7zip should work...), and then double click the GAME.EXE shortcut.
During the game, the text might be small, so i recommend right clicking on the window -> properties -> fonts, and then changing the size from there.
---- How did I make this? ----
I used C++ (using Visual Studio 2015, not sure why I used the 2015 version though) to make the game, using the blank Win32 Application (..I think!). Libraries I used were
- Iostream - Every single piece of text in the code is from the iostream library
- Array - For the different seeds, and inventory of the user
- String - for allowing text variables
----How to I fix runtime error?----
Install this: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=52685 (both x86 and x64)
----Relation to Theme----
The theme was two incompatible genres, so I chose Farming and Text-Based gameplay together to make this.
----The Goal----
There could be many other goals you could make up, but the built in goals are:
1. Make 1000$
2. Make as much money as you can in 365 days.
----The Gameplay----
Gameplay is pretty simple. Each day you decide what you want to do, whether it be planting seeds or going to upgrade. You have 4 options:
1. Plant Seeds
2. Buy upgrades
3. Skip day
4. Buy seeds
Each decision is pretty self explanatory, and you can explore what all the different kinds of seeds are or all the different upgrades.
You start off with 8$ and 10 ABCDE seeds. Oh, and each day you lose 0.25$ for the farm upkeep.
----How do I get started?----
Simple, just extract the ZIP file using an extraction software (I personally use WinRar, but 7zip should work...), and then double click the GAME.EXE shortcut.
During the game, the text might be small, so i recommend right clicking on the window -> properties -> fonts, and then changing the size from there.
---- How did I make this? ----
I used C++ (using Visual Studio 2015, not sure why I used the 2015 version though) to make the game, using the blank Win32 Application (..I think!). Libraries I used were
- Iostream - Every single piece of text in the code is from the iostream library
- Array - For the different seeds, and inventory of the user
- String - for allowing text variables
----How to I fix runtime error?----
Install this: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=52685 (both x86 and x64)