Thread: My first Direct X game

You are welcome to try it. Just unzip the files in any directory and it (should) work.
Source included for those who are interested .
Post comments and bugs if you like.

(If the links doesn't work, try to Copy and Paste them)

http://www.geocities.com/magos818/Files/Ball.zip (321 kb)

Seems like you need this DLL too:
www.geocities.com/magos818/Files/cw3220.zip (101 kb)

Controls:

LEFT/RIGHT -Move paddle left and right
ESC -Exit
ENTER -Start/Restart a game
SPACE -Randomly select another level (there are 8)

Hmm, sorry about that. You can download the DLL from here:

www.geocities.com/magos818/Files/cw3220.zip

Unless someone can recommend something better, I have to put up with geocities

Originally posted by jdinger
What *.lib's did you include when you compiled it?

ddraw.lib

A site I recommend (it's free) is 0catch.com (that is a 0 not an O). You get 150mb of free storage. The only thing you need to do to keep your site from being closed is to just by following the rules, which aren't that restrictive.

EDIT: Now I'm able to download it...

Originally posted by TechWins
A site I recommend (it's free) is 0catch.com (that is a 0 not an O). You get 150mb of free storage. The only thing you need to do to keep your site from being closed is to just by following the rules, which aren't that restrictive.

EDIT: Now I'm able to download it...

I checked it out, but the ad-banner covers half the screen
Could be nice for file-hosting though.

As ErionD pointed out, there are certain bugs in the balls movement, especially in high speeds. If someone knows some site where good "ball-bouncing-movements" are explained, plz tell.

Nice Game...

one day I may even understand the source code naah...maby not...

Originally posted by ErionD
Well since you must have a loop or something that moves the ball. Cant you just check if its limits are inside the others and then move it according to that

That's what I did. This is a representation of the blocks:

Code:

+--------+
|\   1  /|
| \    / |
|  \  /  |
|2  \/  3|
|   /\   |
|  /  \  |
| /    \ |
|/   4  \|
+--------+

If the ball overlaps the block (which isn't hard to calculate ), I check which part of the block the ball is in. If it's in (1), the ball bounces upwards, if it's in (3) it bounces to the right (and so on).

However, if the ball enters the block at the edge from below in high speed, it will enter region (2) or (3) directly, instead of (4), causing it to bounce irregular...