It's probably time to create a draw function, and draw different things depending on the state. Alternatively you could encode some characters in the string, and then have a function to print them as required. Probably easier for now, to just draw different things depending on the game state. In the attached source code, I have created a drawGame function, which is called every frame. I have put the first few states in for you (and removed them from the keypress/logic loop), to get you started....but there is a lot to move, so I'll leave the rest up to you!!