I am compiling this from the command prompt using cl, I am having the same problems related to the unicode thing, do you know if there is a way to set this from the command line or will i have to use the IDE? thanks

Just define UNICODE and _UNICODE with your compile command

@@tommy2nes #ifndef UNICODE #define UNICODE #endif #ifndef _UNICODE #define _UNICODE #endif Before #include

sorry if I ask another easy to answer often asked question, but how is this important?

Its a good question. Simple answer is, not everyone uses a Latin alphabet. Regular character types and strings dont have enough precision to represent all languages. For hobby needs, this is less important, but professionally your customers might need additional language support. Its also easier to include from the beginning rather than engineer in later.

This comment made my day.

So true

Is it bad that I would have just said to hell with this "? 1 : 0" business and added the result of the bool directly?

​@@tylermassey5431 Nope! I was thinking exactly the same thing. In fact, bool to int conversion is implicit and is guaranteed to be 1 for true and 0 for false by the C++ standard (see the answers on stackoverflow.com/questions/5369770/bool-to-int-conversion). I guess the usage of the ternary operator was to be explicit about the assignment for readability purposes.

If it looks cool on the screen, then it's most likely very necessary.

That was kinda cool, I appreciate such introductions.

i agree. love this dude's videos even though i'm late to the party

yeah, I just gotta love it when the intro is longer than the one little piece of info that I forgot when working on a project.

Benoit Adam We all appreciate it!

thanks capt

thx a lot

God bless you

Old Way is definitely faster on a C64 in BASIC. And pre-calculating is even faster but it consumes much more memory .

i'd like your comment but i don't want to ruin your likes number

@@kuchigyz6231 Your too late... I'm sorry but your noble deed has gone unrecognised.

It, *technically*, isn't half an hour long. It's longer.

Its deserving.

@@mykyta1235 it was a joke dude, chill

You hit the nail on the head

Fucking a right

This is one of those comments you wrote specifically so that the creator might read and like it.

@@DrummerJacob I write all of my comments so that the content creators can read those... also, I write most my comments so that the content creators like those. Most of the times there are already sufficiently many they probably don't like, it's a Internet thing...

And it was read, and liked! Thanks!

Thank you Jarmam, you made a great decision to get stuck in and start coding, good luck!

This is golden advice!! Thank you my screen was wonky!

For Windows11, you need to right-click and go to settings, then in the startup tab change the launch size

I love you

Thanks you

thank you very much, this advice was very helpful

Hey thanks Robert, that's a really nice thing to say, and it's great to involve your family in the fun! Cheers!

Brilliant

I'm going to steal this trick

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotation_matrix

😂😂

Thank you

lol Daemyno, thanks man, that is much appreciated!

Exactly, it is a C program. Nice to see how difficult I find my old (and natural) way of thinking in this code. Sometimes OOP sucks (imposible vectorization operations), but sometimes saves developer's mental health.

That's great to hear Corey, I appreciate the feedback!

These videos are showing hobbyist projects which are then simplified further just so he can explain in as short amount of time as possible (he already needs over 30mins at the time to do so even when simplifying it), he writes simple code because writing simple code is how you show off an idea... It's not built nor is supposed to be robust, it's an example. We don't complicate it for fun, we think about what we will need to do with it 5 maybe 10 years later... You don't need to be old-school developer to write an example simple enough to get the point across, the problem is that bad developers think they can teach others and then shove their 3k LOC example that barely works when that could be 300 loc and have the same idea

There are so many developers out there, what do you even base your opinion on?

"Good Practices" "solid" "oop" "ddd" "hexagonal architecture", "Value Objects" "DTO's" "Patterns" "Anti-Patterns" ... these days over-engineering is completely fine...

@@jordixboy You are naming techniques, ideas and practices that are suitable, if not, absolutely mandatory for any bigger scale project. Specifically things like DDD, hexagonal architecture and value objects (and its companions entities and aggregates) were meant to make webscale architectures tracktable. So no, if you use those ideas in the way they were intended then that is not over-engineering. The definition of DDD even states when to use it's technical aspects and when not to.

So... machine-learning of today is trying to solve a simple problem? Please help me understand your wits and logic.

lol thanks Lep, I've solved many programming problems by turning the problem upside down, I hope seeing this helps the viewers understand there are many routes to the end result.

The rotation with multidimensional array could also be done without changing the array itself. You just have to change the order in which you read the array.

Thanks weltvonalex, yeah, nobody wants that....

Thanks a lot you're a savior!

Thanks man. I too had that same problem with the hash symbols everywhere.

Thanks dude.

Thanks, I was wondering why it did that.

For the window error, if you rescale the window with your mouse, it will also adjust that area and realign the grid

Thanks NutritiveApple, I hope you find some useful stuff!

exactly what I'm thinking, thanks

No! It's longer ;D

Thanks LightLord, I appreciate that!

Hey Cheers Mason! My videos will cover the basics of the techniques involved but to get the performance you might need will require some GPU help.

@@javidx9 this is actually very impressive that you still reply to old videos. It's new to somebody everyday.

Good to hear Saif!

what a what?

It's a W shaped String, duh

Apparently it's a "wide" string, because though he failed to mention it, this tutorial is Unicode compliant. Just in case.

@@thegardenofeatin5965 apparently it's because Windows.h requires wstring and wchar_t

@@inigo8740 Thank heavens Linux does Unicode as UTF-8 :P

Every body know w is stand for womboo , sly

uuahh. gross.

Hey thanks Zeke, yeah I learned a lesson there! There's very little planning on this channel. Pleased you enjoyed it though!

What I also notice is, the console window doesn't change size like yours does. Mine stays at 120x30 despite your 80x30 code. How can there be entirely different outcomes from identical raw code???!

I have to manually change the console window to 80x30 in the console window properties for it to work. Why don't we invoke a function that changes the actual size to our screen size variables? Like in C#. Also, changing the window size destroys it, and it doesn't go back to normal.

I wish this would get more attention, or at least an answer.

See "Introducing ConsoleGameE gine" and/or any of the next 50 videos or so.

Hi ella, like all things, programming requires practice and patience. It sounds like youve recognised your limitations, which is a fantastic (and often overlooked) start because now you know what to do next! Good luck with your project!

@@javidx9 thank you so much ! These are very encouraging words and I will try to educate myself as extensively as possible. This is a really great video, I'll be sure to check out your others !

Hey Thanks D Rrac! That means a lot.

Thanks MegaBro, glad the video was useful!

Hi Lucas, thanks man!

Tysm, I was so confused

@@dollopbingo5643 np

Thanks my friend!!

No problem Composing Gloves, programming certainly has its moments and frustrations! I might be looking at SFX in an upcoming video, so it would be interesting to hear your thoughts!

Composing Gloves "Because i dont want this video to be half an hour long" and its 36 min

Hey thanks alias, much appreciated! Its a windows specific way of doing these things, but enables loads of fun for those starting out with programming.

javidx9 yep! Glad I use windows so I can have fun with your engine

I'll have to look again now :D not sure you can do that without destroying it.

+Brek Martin thanks for the compliment! Rotating in the array is just as valid. I think the centre of rotation changes per piece in proper Tetris. That's a bit more fiddly though.

javidx9 I've looked again. This was in 2010, so it's vague! I copped out and defined all rotated shape combinations in a table, but I let myself off the hook because I rotated digits to display the score, the same way you rotate tetris bricks (for portrait display) :D

NIce! I hate looking at code from years ago. Firstly I can barely remember it and obviously I wrote loads of documentation, and secondly, it always looks so inexperienced compared to now. lol. I guess I'll feel the same in 10 years time looking back at these videos.

I did it again over two nights :) Bored of the actual game already :D It looks like you expanded the well array to include borders made of set bricks, which I should have done. Checking the borders takes extra code, but the borders included in the well array would be checked naturally with the normal shape collision function. What it appears we both forgot, or maybe you just didn’t want to... I think the well needs a couple of off screen rows to spawn the new shapes to, so they don’t suddenly, and unfairly appear at the top of the well. I did borrow your idea of using values for the brick elements that relate to the shape that each brick came from. It makes the game ready for a colour platform, even if it isn’t running on one.

Heh thanks Andreas, i dont script these things so i have to guess at the length :D

Thanks Eternia, I occasionally dont use the olc engines. Ive a series planned later this year which might not use them, we'll see...

@@javidx9 Many thanks, looking forward to learn more pure c++ tutorials!

While you're at it, do number 4.

it's actually easier to program Witcher 3.

In ASCII !!!

In the command line

Good stuff Jason, glad you got it resolved!

Can you help me out, Im having the same problem but I cant seem to fix it

This question was asked one year ago and since the solution was not given here let me do this. When you run the application, click on the properties bar of the console and resize it accordingly. You can set the width and height by resizing the window. If you do that make sure you click on properties and press Ok so the settings are stored.

@@webnplay If I send this project for someone else to play on a different computer, will the application launch with the terminal the correct size, or will the new computer also need to be resized.

ian reim probably needs to be resized if it is not correctly set.

Hey no problem Matti, I'm pleased its sniped you! There are many ways to implement tetris, and yes you may save some space by pre-caching all the pieces in a list. Part of me wants to go on to represent the pieces as bit streams, and use bitwise logic to mess about with them...

Yeah, there are many ways to implement the pieces. Actually, I think that saving all the pieces and their orientations using bit streams could actually take up less space in the executable instead of using matrix rotation logic. Accessing the pieces in the bit stream using modular arithmetic would actually be faster, too. I haven't coded anything so intensive that squeezing the last CPU cycles out would have been necessary (I do have an idea slowly cooking in my head actually), but as my first computer was an old and slow 386, my mantra is still "don't waste the cycles". It makes my coding a lot slower, but the results become quite snappy, if I say so myself. I remember banging my head against my code, when it was poorly constructed SQL all along... Thanks for yet another inspiring video!

Aww, thanks Guillermo!

exactly my thoughts man XD

Thanks, lol, Im pleased youve found it useful :D

Hey thanks Chico, that's very kind of you! Good luck with your project!

Thanks mate.

Thanks, was just about to look this up myself, saved me the trouble!

Thanks!

Yeah, they appear a lot of image handling.

ewww

Linear Algebra basics

You're WEAK! Build your math muscles!

lol, thanks K Parks, the console is a great and underestimated vehicle for learning even advanced topics!

my Tetris game comes much closer to the Guideline. tetrisimplementation.netlify.app/

Thanks!

i second this

Hi Phil, I've deliberately left this and FPS #1 out of olcCGE. Mainly because I did them before I created olcCGE, but also they make great exercises for other people to have a go at, which you may not be surprised is something people ask me about a fair bit!

Hi Abraham, Thanks, that's certainly one way to look at it! :D I hope your journey is long and fruitful!

Thanks for the high quality channel, I knew I could do it. Progging is fun!

I am facing the same issue , can you please post any link to the tweaked code?

@@rishabhgupta734 using namespace std::chrono_literals; right above std::this_thread::sleep_for(50ms); should do the trick if you still need aid. still not sure how it works without that in vid and in file from github

@@Ogrodnik95 I am still getting error , if u can please post your C++ code here...

@@udaythakur7464 try: std::this_thread::sleep_for(std::chrono::milliseconds(50));

Cheers buddy!

I'm pleased you've found it useful! I would use PGE for everything, and the CGE videos can be very easily implemented in PGE.