Originally Posted by TwitcH

a text based MMORPG is normally called a MUD, what you are looking for is a MUD Codebase, you can find alot of them here:

http://www.mudconnect.com/resources/..._Snippets.html

and as for the problem with your code, you are going to need to either run it through the command prompt or try adding

after the line which prints hello world.

but don't trust me completely on that since i've never touched c++, opening through the command prompt should definately work though.

Originally Posted by Deceth

You didn't do anything wrong. The reason the screen closed is because it has finished executing your program and so it exits.

It's actually displaying the Hello World then closing really fast.

Your best bet is to run your program through the Command Prompt so that the window does not close after execution. To do this:

Go to start, run, type cmd

You'll then need to navigate to the location of your exe file. Once you are in the correct folder just type name.exe and it will run and display your text!