Multiple .cpp files or just one

[Handge]

I'm making a text RPG game in C++, and was wondering if it would be a smart idea to have the Acts split into their own .cpp files? For example main.cpp would start and setup the game while act1.cpp would do the things I want to happen in Act I then it would go to act2.cpp etc.. How would I bring my objects (player, enemy, item, and more) into the other files?

Thanks!

[keskiverto]

How do you bring objects from one function to an another in a single-file program?
In exactly the same way as with multiple files.

The executable that you run has "no files".

See: http://www.cplusplus.com/articles/Gw6AC542/

[Handge]

Then would it be possible to have different acts be in separate files?

[keskiverto]

Yes, but ...

A program does operations on data. Is each act really a different set of operations, or simply same operation with different data?