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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 :p 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 :D
*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! :D 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 :p But I guess it's true that generally people like arrow-keys better.
If you'd care to just step inside and take a look at my code, you can see that each star is 1 pixel :DQuote:
another suggestion i have is to decrease the size of the stars
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 :rolleyes: Plus for each large-star, it would take 4 SetPixelV's instead of just 1... and then the code looked messy:Quote:
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
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 :D
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 :D). 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.
Regardless. Definetely a good job. Perhaps I should boot to windows more to check out more of the other posters games as well :).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;
}
:) 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 :)
Thx kirdra post the link to what u did here or mail me at:
[email protected].
Thanks ALOT.
LOL nice ship!
:p and BTW, Kirdra is my artist! You stay away! :p
I was gonna put it up on my homestead page put homestead doesn't want to work for me. I'll e-mail you it in a bit.
Hey Kirdra thx alot but it looks too blurry, I will probably use it as the opponet ships :).
Got any more ship models like those?
I need a really Super cool ship for the player's one.
Thx.
I make those ships from scratch, if you want me to make you a "really cool" ship give me a few days.
'sounds like you have an new artist on the job, when are you going to get the latest graphics built in? I'm looking forward to it... Its a very good game; good graphics, lots'a weapons(lol),i don't know if there is sound(thinks its my computer), and in general... veeerry good. Cutoz.:D
I like your text editor... i just got my petzold book so I should be able to do something like that in about 2 weeks going on a month. I don't know how hard it is. Sorry, this really shouldn't be in this forum but I didn't think it required its own thread... good job.
Lol no, it's not your computer's fault. I just didn't feel like putting in sounds :) Too much thinking, might slow it down, etc. BTW, no new graphics (after the change for the ship). I'll probably just recode it in DirectX then quit at that... I wanna try making a Continuum-clone (http://www.subspacehq.com/downloads/continuum.shtml).
oooo i solved your theseus minotaur puzzle... MIND BLOWING... anyway.. i solved it, took me 13 retries... very good. the black dot doesn't remind me of a minotaur but its definetly worth playing. ;) good game.
No problem kirdra im looking forward to it.
You can email again or post here, either way is good :).
Thx again.
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Originally posted by Kirdra
I make those ships from scratch, if you want me to make you a "really cool" ship give me a few days.
lol you know, that was my first windows game ever :) It was a homework assignment.
lol you know, that was my first windows game ever :) It was a homework assignment.
The good thing about this game is that you can alter the graphics yourself by just changing or modifing the bitmaps.
:) Very good. Now try making a nested loop! :pQuote:
I made a loop!
Looping will create new possibilties for my text games, I have just created a Game Menu that loops. I think this will get me out of the newb stage, after I get randomising and stuff in.
Thats good :) randomising is fairly easy to put in. In case you're interested, this is what I know about generating random numbers:
use this to seed the random number generator at the beginning of the program
#include <time.h>
srand(time(NULL));
Or if you are making a Windows app, you can use
srand((int)GetTickCount());
use this to get just any random number
rand();
To get a random number from "start" to "end", do this:
int start = 5;
int end = 10;
int randomNumber = (rand() % (end - start + 1)) + start;
To make it easier, make a macro:
Hope it helps :)Code:#define RANDOM(start,end) ((rand() % ((end) - (start) + 1)) + (start))
Yea thanks, I am using a lot of random numbers for rare items and Enemy/Player attack damage. I've got the random thing worked out now. That clears it up at bit. :)