C++ console games tutorials and thread pointers please

If you want to create dynamic game in console, minding, that you are using Windows, I recommend you to dig into windows.h header on MSDN. There are functions in it for handling cursor position, console color and etc.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa383745%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

I know some will probably consider it a waste of time, but writing games like Tetris and Snake on the console, and moving on to small Roguelikes can be a nice exercise for novice programmers IMO. There's a useful lesson about separating game logic and graphics/input systems that writing such games for the console can help make clear.

Benryves has a tutorial that covers the basics of the console over on his site. I started there and went on to write my own wrappers for console "graphics" and input. If you follow kaktusas' link and dig around you can get to http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms683175(v=vs.85).aspx which gives you the documentation on the functions in wincon.h

If you google something like "Breakout console C++" or "Snake console C++" you can also find a number of examples with code (some better than others, obviously).

thank you for this il get on it right away

I made a colorful animated boggle game in console a few years ago. I don't have a readily available executable but i have the source code for it. The code is a bit messy but i made a crude graphics and input system similar to Benryves' tutorial as what Crowseye suggested.

The game has a complete UI interface with buttons and texts and receives input from keyboard and mouse. As an added bonus there's even a mini mp3 player built-in for you to choose or switch songs and play them using fmod.

You'll also need to download fmod for the source to compile; for the music player thing.

anyone else got anything they can add to this to help me out??