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C++ Console Games

A topic by LebbyFoxx created Sep 26, 2019 Views: 664 Replies: 3
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Hello everyone!

I have a question about uploading C++ text-based/console games. Is it possible to upload these types of games here on Itch if it is an exe file? This is probably a silly question to ask but I'd like to know what you guys think. I don't know if there are any rules surrounding this.

Thank you for your time.

- LebbyFoxx

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You can upload pretty much any type of file you want. If you're selling it you might want to compile it for Mac/Linux as well, but yeah I don't see why not.

Ok, thank you for the help!

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When it comes to console games, I did find out that running them from the app or client, they won't work. At least my game "Who is the virus?" didn't. Now that game has been written in Go and not in C++, but fact remains it runs in the console, and I think that's the evil, and not the language I used to code it. Downloading it and running it directly without this app, makes the game run fine though. Of course, there should be ways to make the client open a console window in which the game can run with some clever scripts or help programs, but for my game I didn't sort that out completely since it was only an experimental game at the time. ;)

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