Escape 2020

Inspiration

This past semester I have been learning C++ in order to learn more about game development. I decided to make a simple command line guessing game based on the dumpster fire of a year we just got through.

What it does

The user is displayed with three choices in order to move the next round. One of the choices should be the correct answer, but sometimes the program will choose to give the user three false choices because nothing could be more 2020 than that.

How I built it

I built it in raw c++

Challenges I ran into

I spent the bulk of my time trying to figure out how to create an algorithm that would shuffle the three answers. I ended up coming up with a rough solution of using more random numbers to assign the answers to different positions in an array. Hence how sometimes the choices might not reflect the correct answer at all.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

I created a shuffling algorithm from scratch though it's not the most elegant solution.

What I learned

Instead of fixing bugs...you can turn them into a feature.

What's next for Escape 2020

I'd like to rewrite it in a JS and make a web game out of it.

Built With

• c++