How do I receive user input for a dungeon crawler?

Asked Nov 25 '14 at 13:38

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So, I am planning on designing a dungeon crawler (like Nethack), and I was wondering how I could get the user's input for moving the player. I originally planned to get a character input (W,S,A, or D) and then when the user presses enter, the movement takes place.

However, now I'd like to implement this without the mandatory enter press, so that merely pressing W would move the player forward by one space. I don't really need syntactically correct code, just pseudo-code of a concept would suffice.

asked Nov 25 '14 at 13:38

LightMikeE

Capturing a `KEYDOWN` event won't work? – Mr. Mascaro Nov 25 '14 at 13:39
Would they work if creating a Java or C++ console file? I wasn't sure – LightMikeE Nov 25 '14 at 13:48
It depends on how you're capturing the input, but unless you're waiting for input that should work. – Mr. Mascaro Nov 25 '14 at 14:02
I am waiting, in the sense that the input for movement should work like in any FPS or RPG or whatever – LightMikeE Nov 25 '14 at 14:05
Ok. If you are using a prompt, an enter keypress is required. If you are just running your game loop you can use system events and simply capture those without a prompt. That's what most games do. – Mr. Mascaro Nov 25 '14 at 14:10
Right, that'll probably work. Thanks! – LightMikeE Nov 25 '14 at 14:50

How do I receive user input for a dungeon crawler?

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