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[Arrghus]

I need to make a game for my Programming summative, and I'm making a combat system.

One of the parts I wanted to incorporate was spells, and I thought a sort of spell database would be the best way to achieve this.

The thought I had was that it would look through a file for the name of the spell, and from that point read the data that makes the spell work, and then cast it using this data. An example of a spell I've made is:

Cure
1
8
-30
-3
1A
None

The format being:
Name
Level
MP Cost
Damage
Damage Threshold
Target
Status Effect

Is there a way I can do this?

[ericfourfour]

Let me get you started:

Turing:

type Spell :     record         %insert variables for the spell     end record function readSpell (fileName : string) : Spell     %Make the spell     result %The new spell end readSpell

Within the Turing Walkthrough, you will be able to find tutorials on records, functions, and file io.