Procedural Content Generation for C++ Game Development

The random potion class

For the biggest class update, we'll turn our attention to the potion class. This class currently has a fixed sprite and doesn't give the player anything. With the humanoid class, we can generate a random type and essentially create two different enemies from a single class. We're going to use this same approach for the potions.

Creating a random potion

To start, let's define an enumerator in Util.h that denotes all potion types. We'll create one for each stat, as follows:

// Potions.
enum class POTION {
  ATTACK,
  DEFENSE,
  STRENGTH,
  DEXTERITY,
  STAMINA,
  COUNT
};

To save a lot of typing, the potion class already has the member variables and the getter functions for each possible stat, we just need to use them. One thing that we ...