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Wanted: Simple game made

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Yzzerdd

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I am wanting a game made...simple game....
basis for game: ICE CREAM VENDOR SIMULATION.. .
like the ones who go neighborhood to neighborhood
in their ice cream vans selling stuff to poor
unsuspecting kids and sometimes parents...text based
not point and click based....

WHEN ALL ELSE FAILS, HIT IT WITH A HAMMER!!!
 
There used to be a few text based games like Lemonade, in which you operate a lemonade stand. Based on a weather forecast, you have to decide how much concentrate, sugar and cups you should buy, and once the exact weather is known, you set your daily price for a cup of lemonade. If you sell too cheap, you may run out of one ingredient, but if you are too expensive, hardly noone will buy. The game goes on for a number of weekends and in the end you get your accumulated profit and perhaps a reward.

I'm sure the game concept has been implemented on many computers, with small variations in what the gameplay is about. From your description, it sounds like this type of game, but I don't understand the comment about using a hammer.
 
I'v been looking for one like that, my middle school had it, Hotdog Stand or something.
 
What platform

What platform

So what platform do you want the game designed for?
 
This is a great project for a first time programmer to pick up. You should grab a nice old book on basic and try coding it yourself, it's really not that hard (especially w/o graphics). You're just doing a bunch of if this then goto 20, etc.

You'd be using a random statement probably to get some random results from the sale (and of course add some small mischeif like the kid throwing the icecream in your face, trying to run for it, reaches for candy while you weren't looking, etc). Other than that it's all if, then, goto, print "bla", and another loop or return back to the main function that goes back to the random actions. Keep track of money in the top right or something.. not sure if you'd care enough for inventory (that's more of a pain).

Check out a crappy old mischeif game called "Barney Splat". It was an old dos text-based game basically torturing barney and friends (when I was young I found it humorous) despite the drugs, etc that are in the game but it's a great example of a pointless entertaining random text game. I heard it was a bbs game although I don't think it ever was especially since it has speaker music playing during the game (also quite easy in basic).

If you want a better challenge try writing it in pascal (although it's a little more touch to learn on your own). A great challenge is coding it in C (check out turboC from borland since it has great help files) or pick up C for dummies at a used bookstore which is a nice book. Then of course if you're ridiculously bored you could code it in assembly or ML but in this case you probably wouldn't have posted it for others to do here ;o)

Have fun,
- John
 
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