About Text Game Tutor

Are you interested in learning C++? Do you want to make a video game using only your own work? Would you like to practice writing interactive stories like those in video games? You can accomplish all of that by making text games—which are games that convey all the plot and action through text instead of graphics—and Text Game Tutor will help you learn how to do it.

Programming text games lets you:

• Learn basic programming concepts by using them.
• Make a complete game before you attempt complicated graphical programming.
• Practice writing engaging, nonlinear stories. 
• Create accessible games for a large, diverse audience.

I'm Ada Fisher, and I'm studying game design and programming at a university in Texas. To learn to program, I endured making more loan interest calculators in C++ than I care to count. C++ lets programmers do wonderful things, and C++ lessons must convey that truth to interest beginners in programming. Beginners need C++ lessons that reflect what interests them, and writing a text game indulges their inner artists, gamers, and writers while they learn C++.

Text Game Tutor exists to provide a comprehensive beginner’s guide to writing text games in C++.  This blog will feature detailed tutorials that explain each part of the process of making a text game, as well as interviews on writing text games with experienced programmers and teachers. These tutorials will include how to install the software you need to start writing C++ programs, how to create C++ programs that tell stories, and how to let players make choices in a text game. Each tutorial will improve on the program that you started with, until you have finished an entire text game. 

Subscribe to Text Game Tutor if you are a beginner who wants to learn to program in C++, if you are interested in making your own game, or if you want to make a text game to practice writing for video games. Although Text Game Tutor is a beginner’s guide, feedback from experienced programmers can help make this blog better. This blog’s tutorials will also increase in difficulty as times goes on; if you find one week’s tutorials a little too easy, you can join in later to learn more complicated concepts.