How do you make a simple ASCII-style game?

[Warden]

Hello,

I'm interested in making one of those geeky ASCII-graphics games like dwarf-fortress. Any ideas on how to make one? 0_0
I know how to display and move the character around, but can someone tell me how to set the console position?

P.S.
This tutorial is really good -> http://www.kathekonta.com/rlguide/intro.html
But I can't install the console.h library that is required by the tutoral.

-Newbie Warden

[DragonDePlatino]

I've never heard of anyone using a console library to develop ASCII games. That doesn't sound very newbie-friendly either. A good alternative would be libcotd: https://bitbucket.org/libtcod/libtcod

It's a very popular and well-documented library built specifically for roguelikes. There is a detailed tutorial for it on RogueBasin and lots of newbies like you using it on /r/roguelikedev. It also has SDL support in case you ever want to make a tile-based port.

RogueBasin tutorial: http://www.roguebasin.com/index.php?title=Complete_roguelike_tutorial_using_C%2B%2B_and_libtcod_-_part_1:_setting_up
/r/roguelikedev: https://www.reddit.com/r/roguelikedev

[Thomas1965]

how to set the console position?

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms686025%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
This also looks interesting:
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/9130/Add-Color-to-Console-Projects