Thread: My First Game!!!!!!!

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    My First Game!!!!!!!

    Hi peeps, i've "completed" my first game its a DOS based version of the towers of hanoi. There are three pegs A,B+C to start with Peg A has a series of rings the smallest on top and the largest on the bottom. The goal is to acheive this same order on Peg B in the minimum number of moves possible. Two main rules exist

    1. A larger ring may not be placed on top of a smaller one
    2. Only one ring at a time may be moved.

    Please tell me what u think of it, there are obviously some things to improve upon, but ur comments would be appreciated.

    http://www.geocities.com/puterpaul2002/index.html
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    nice job for a first game! mine was a lot like it (stix).
    suggestions:
    1. make an end sequence
    2. controls aren't very good

    thats basically all, keep up to good work
    ¿Red Baron?

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    I've gotten rid of a few bugs and added a move counter, go to the same URL to download it.
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    Hey!

    Congratulations, not bad at all. At least you finished your first game (I'm still working on mine ).

    But there are quite abit of things you might want to consider tho:
    - go to www.gametutorials.com and under C++ check out how to do screen buffering (I know it might be confusing at first, but it's worth it - it's the easiest graphics get )
    - validate the entries (check if you can move B to C or C to A for example when all the numbers are in A) - to do that you can just make an array holding the number of entries in each - A,B and C.
    - the screen is not big enough to see all the numbers on Hard difficulty ... try to make the operations or input simpler, like by typing in "A-C" it will move from A to C. (you can do it via strcmp() or make a function like that yourself).

    In all, pretty good game

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    Small update, I changed the display slightly so that the user can now see all the numbers in hard. I've also included the source code and VC workspace files.

    Get it here: http://www.puterpaul.co.uk/hanoi.html
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    Just a side note, I plan on trying to get to grips with the DirectX API, pretty heavy stuff these API's. How the hell did you guys get to grips with it.

    I have to admit its quite daunting at the moment.
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