First Windows game, FINALLY DONE!

Hey everyone, I'm finally done my first game! Well, minus tictactoe and some other little thing. It's written in C++, and uses Windows GDI for graphics. It's called Space Shooterz! (with the !). Try it out and tell me what you guys think! Any comments welcome, minus flames about the graphics And if it runs slow, don't blame me, because Windows GDI is slow.

Alrighty then, I'll just be waitin for the posts to start pourin' in

*sorry, forgot to attach it.

Nice! My only issue: the controls. I had some difficulties trying to move around. I may change it on my own, though, for when I play it. Other than that, very well done!

Brendan

Well, you did a good job, and the game is very well designed except...for the controls

the controls leave a lot to be desired. here are my suggestions...

Arrow Up = Up
Arrow Down = Down
Arrow Left = Left
Arrow Right = Right

Space Bar = Attack
B = Cycle Weapons
N = Activate Limitbreak
V = Previous Weapon

another suggestion i have is to decrease the size of the stars. what you outght to do is randomly create the stars and randomly create their size. then by the size of the star you can put the proper amount of pixels down. do you see what i mean? then again that would be a lot more difficult.

and you didn't put all the files into a folder, so now i have to go back and find each and every one of your game files on my desktop (no big deal really 'cause you're not the only one who does it. i think there should be a universal internet rule that you have to put all of your files inside of a folder...)

all in all, the game is good, but better controls really could make the game a lot better. i strongly recommened changing the controls.

Alrighty then, change the controls it is! And add a high-scores table, since I forgot to put it in. Looks like just about everybody hates my controls I personally have no problem with them since I'm used to playing counter-strike But I guess it's true that generally people like arrow-keys better.

another suggestion i have is to decrease the size of the stars

If you'd care to just step inside and take a look at my code, you can see that each star is 1 pixel

what you outght to do is randomly create the stars and randomly create their size. then by the size of the star you can put the proper amount of pixels down

Been there, done that. The stars are randomly generated at the beginning of the program at random positions on the screen; when they reach the bottom, they go to the top. I had different-sized stars (1 pixel, 2 pixels, 4 pixels) to start out with, but they looked like alien-dandruff Plus for each large-star, it would take 4 SetPixelV's instead of just 1... and then the code looked messy:

Code:

SetPixelV();
if(size > 1)
     SetPixelV();
if(size > 2)
{
     SetPixelV();
     SetPixelV();
}

Oh oh oh lemme do some graphics for you I love that game... oh oh please... Also a suggestion when the spaceship is going left or right you could include a different image tilting in the direction, that wouldn't take that long would it? but seriously I want to make you some graphics for that game... Maybe if you see the designs I made you'll see what my suggestion is suggesting h0h0

Shure, lemme see the graphics! But I'm not going to be putting in the tilting yet, 'cuz I'm about to start recoding the game in DirectX

BTW everyone, sorry but I can't change the controls to the arrow keys/space/stuff (at least not for my comp), because then there's problems where keypresses get blocked (i.e. if you press up and space or something, you can't go left.)

I have remade your little spaceship and Alien ship, I hope you like them they're a little blurry due to being converted into JPEGs just black out around the edges with MS paint.

http://elevenkingavaters.homestead.c...aGraphics.html

Hmm, I like the ship But the alien looks a little funny...

Anyways, I just finished my final update on the game, and I'll attach it in a sec (gotta stick in the new ship ). Sorry Kirdra, you'll have to wait for my DirectX version to remake the rest of the pics

Alrighty everyone, this is the final FINAL version of my game. It's not perfect, but it'll do until I come out with a DirectX version Until then everyone, download and enjoy!

*sorry but I can't upload the exe/bitmaps. It's too big a zip But to download it, you can click on the link in my sig... should work just as well

It's fun. When I build the project, however, it doesn't load the data correctly.

What is the difference between the beam and the laser in terms of varying effectiveness?

It seems that they are basically the same... only shoot straight up pretty much, and the damage rate is comparable. Perhaps you should make one of them split apart at a slight angle? Also, some explosive weapons could be cool.. rather than damage by contact directly, they start an explosion that damages the aliens.

Some code is redundant.. IE, the if aliens.size() > 0 condition would be handled because 0 is not less than 0, which would be the condition checked by the for loop.

Code:

bool Shot::collide(GFX& gfx)
{
	if(aliens.size() > 0)
	{
		for(int i = 0; i < aliens.size(); ++i)
		{
			int left = pos.x;
			int right = pos.x + bmpDimensions.right;
			int top = pos.y;
			int bottom = pos.y + (bmpDimensions.bottom / frames);
			int aLeft = aliens[i].pos.x + 2;
			int aRight = aliens[i].pos.x + aliens[i].bmpDimensions.right - 2;
			int aTop = aliens[i].pos.y + 2;
			int aBottom = aliens[i].pos.y + aliens[i].bmpDimensions.bottom - 2;

			if(left <= aRight && right >= aLeft && top <= aBottom && bottom >= aTop)
			{
				if(!aliens[i].damage(dmg, gfx))
					aliens.erase(&aliens[i]);
				return true;
			}
		}
	}
	return false;
}

Regardless. Definetely a good job. Perhaps I should boot to windows more to check out more of the other posters games as well .

Thanks for pointing out the redundant thingee. I didn't really notice. I'll change it, but I don't think I'll be posting it again, 'till I recode it in DX.

Hello kirdra.

Im also making a similar shooter to that one but it is already developed in opengl and directx for graphics and sound relateively . The game also has 3d effects and particles and more, but im not releasing any betas untill its completely done, its my graduation project .

The real problem are the textures. They look ugly, If you got time I will give you a link to my stupid looking ship and maybe you can re-edit it or make a new one that looks better. .

Here you go:
http://members.lycos.co.uk/r3altime/ship.bmp .
See what you can do .
Cya later.

I'll work on it