If you ever have a problem and your game isn’t working correctly, make sure you go back and ensure that you haven’t made any of these errors. If for example you place a “echo” command and in the next line place a “cls” command, all of your text will be erased without your player getting to read it (this will make more sense later on).

This concept is what allows some of the things I’m going to teach you, to work. This means that when you run a batch file, all of your code at the top will be interpreted and will run before your code at the bottom.

The second thing I want to mention is that batch files read from top to bottom. So after you type something in, and are done with what is going to be on that line, hit the “enter” button on your keyboard to move to the next line. The first thing is that all of your commands should be kept on separate lines. I want to go over a few quick things before we get in to the actual code. Not only is it useful, but it can also be used to create amazing text-based games! What is a text-based game you ask? It’s a game (a very simple one) in which the user interacts through the use of text and choice-making.You will learn how to set up situations in which the characters will have to make choices about how they want to approach the problem. Now, it’s not even close to being the most powerful programming language out there, but it still let’s you do enough to be extremely useful to know (at least for anyone in the computer field). In this article I’m going to show you how to make a simple game using only the Notepad program and a programming language called “Batch.”īatch is a language that runs primarily out of your Windows command prompt.

Introductionĭid you know that the simple Notepad program on your computer is actually a very powerful programming tool? That’s right, and it is also very easy to learn. You probably won’t know what all of this means right now, but I’ll explain it soon.

How to use notepad++ to make a game