Thread: My very first decent game ever...

Hey everyone! Thanks to the diligent replies of the members of this board, as well as the excellent books called "Windows Game Programming for Dummies", "Jamsa's C/C++/C# Programming Bible" and "Sam's Teach Yourself C++ in 21 Days", I have finally made my very first almost-almost-original (but not quite almost) game in windows functional. It's called... *drum roll * SPACE SHOOTERZ!

*note: It's functional, but not done! Please post some comments/suggestions, but no flames about the graphics... I'm not an artist.

Game.zip is both code/executable, code.zip is the code, and executable.zip is (surprise surprise!) the executable/bitmaps.

P.S. Please vote at the poll when you're done testing the game I wanna see what people think.

Here's the source...

And here's just the executable!

None. I used plain 'ol Windows GDI stuff

yeah, good job well done!

very nice, very nice...I didn't notice any bugs, either. Since I just *have* to add a suggestion, I would suggest changing the controls to use the arrow keys and maybe space and alt or something to shoot and change weapons, because it would be a little bit easier to use. Other than that, though, you're doing good.

I don't see what Govt has to do with the quality of the program in question. Please don't spam the board with this stuff.

Well... I've done Windows programming for only about a month so far... I'm probably gonna start in DirectX soon though, when I'm done tweaking/adding features to this game (I'm adding limit-breaks for when you're at low hp, and possibly making the lasers/rockets upgrades, and shield canisters that dead aliens drop.).

Originally posted by Hunter2
Well... I've done Windows programming for only about a month so far... I'm probably gonna start in DirectX soon though, when I'm done tweaking/adding features to this game (I'm adding limit-breaks for when you're at low hp, and possibly making the lasers/rockets upgrades, and shield canisters that dead aliens drop.).

Pretty good game! Here are my suggestions:

1) Port it over to DirectDraw (use DirectX 7.0) for learning the API!
2) Add parallax scrolling to the background.
3) Add animations

That's really all I can think off of the top of my head. If you need help with any of those three shoot me a PM though.

Sure, thanks! (heh, actually I was wondering what kind of game I'd make to learn DirectDraw )

Limit breaks now working! when at low hp, you keep hitting space and when it says "Limit break!" hit J! Please tell me what you think, everyone!