I know that I'm not there yet, but within some time in my life I want to WRITE a book on text based GAME making with batch, but I still have a few questions.
1. What is %%blahblahblah (I know about %how_variables_have_percent_marks_around_them% But what about %%This_is_it_a_variable)
2. How do I rig a batch game up to a server
3. How could it be possible to make a game maker out of batch (of course, making games within batch's limitations)
4. How could I make Batch AI, graphics (not ASCII), learn a language resembling batch, embed batch or embed things into batch or let characters like ALT_1 or ALT_168 come up without my program crashing.
5. Why do some people need compilers for batch but I don't?
6. Is there a way to make a language resembling batch? How?
Any books that you know of or sites (or other FORMS of reference) that I can use?1. Look at FOR /?
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3. A game maker?
4. Batch is based off of MS-DOS, a command line interface. There are no graphics. Alt characters do display properly. If you don't know if a character will display, put a ^ before it.
5. Batch files don't need compilers. Other programming languages do.
6. Make a language? Biting off more than you can chew again?You'd be SURPRISED at what languages I know (MARKUPS).
HTML
Batch (sorta)
XHTML
CSS
JavaScript
XML
Bits of C++