=Project Outline=* Zork-like adventure game* '''Type:''' text-based game* '''Possible platform:''' Web/XHTML/HTML5, Terminal* MMORPG-ish (killing, leveling, etc. involved) , but text-based game and it's all about statistics** No maps! =Team Members= {| class="wikitable sortable" border="1" cellpadding="5"|-! First Name !! Last Name !! Seneca Id !! wiki id !! IRC nick|-|[[User:Nmayuranathan | Natesh]]||Mayuranathan||[mailto:nmayuranathan@learn.senecac.on.ca?subject=unx511 nmayuranathan]||[[Special:Contributions/Nmayuranathan |Nmayuranathan]]||Tesh_|-|[[User:Rainulf | Rainulf]]||Pineda||[mailto:???@learn.senecac.on.ca?subject=unx511 Rainulf]||[[Special:Contributions/Rainulf |Rainulf]]||_Rainulf|-|[[User:??? |Lucas]]|| Alba Bresso|| [mailto:ljalbabresso@learn.senecac.on.ca?subject=unx511 Lucas] ||[[Special:Contributions/Lucas |Lucas]]||N/A|-|[[User:aali83 |Ahmad]]||Ali|| [mailto:aali83@learn.senecac.on.ca?subject=unx511 Ahmad] || [[Special:Contributions/aali83 |Ahmad]] || N/A|} =Development Plan (Rough)=* Project planning (Jan 11)* Game interface/interaction planning (Jan 18)* Game design/technical programming design (Jan 25)** C++/OO design** Socket OO design - accepting connections** Main game design** Putting the socket and the main game design together =Useful Code Snippets=<pre>/** * Runs a linux command, reallocates memory for whatever the command outputs * @author Rainulf * @return character pointer to the allocated memory * @note needs to be free()'d after use */char* runCmd(const char* cmd){ FILE* fp; char* out = NULL; char* more_out; char ch; int count = 0; /* Open the command for reading. */ fp = popen(cmd, "r"); if (fp == NULL) { printf("Failed to run command\n" ); return 0; } /* Read the output a line at a time - output it. */ ch = fgetc(fp); while(ch != '\n' && ch != EOF){ more_out = (char*) realloc(out, ++count); // no need to free more_out if(more_out != NULL){ out = more_out; out[count-1] = ch; } ch = fgetc(fp); } pclose(fp); return out;} /** * Concatenates two strings by allocating memory for the two * @author Rainulf * @return concatenated string - dynamically allocated * @note needs to be free()'d after use */char* concat(const char* a, const char* b){ char* tmp = malloc(snprintf(NULL, 0, "%s %s", a, b) + 1); sprintf(tmp, "%s %s", a, b); return tmp;} /** * Gets input from STDIN character by character until '\n' or MAXLEN is reached, puts into the character pointer str * @author Rainulf * @return n/a * @note MAXLEN have to be defined */void getInput(char* str){ int charCount = 0; char ch; // get input from user ch = getchar(); while( (ch != '\n') && (charCount < MAXLEN) ) { str[charCount++] = ch; ch = getchar(); } str[charCount] = 0;}</pre>
