Nibbles (src included)

well, i got bored one night last week so i decided to write a low quality nibbles hack. I dont plan on doing anything more with the project so feel free to hack on the source if you want (just give credit to "Perspective from the cboard" or something like that in your src/readme).

Known Crappyness:
- Parts of Nibbles.cpp should be refactored into a Board class
- Colours should be associated with GraphicObject's, not hard-coded
- Game-play code is border line non-existant, this game runs and follows the general nibbles ideology, but it isnt fun.
- Theres no commenting (hey, one evening of bordom coding, what do you expect?)
- the graphics are about as basic as the possibly can get.
- no pause functionality
- key commands should be queued in a game like this, if they are entered faster than an update can execute, only the last one has any effect.
- I used an STL vector to hold the items :eek: This should be a list structure like the snake itself.

How to Do Stuff:
-press Q to quit, R to restart, and arrow keys to steer your snake.
-on linux boxes, extract source and type make to build.
-on windows, create a project with whatever it is you use, add #include <windows.h> to any file that includes GLUT and you should be set. (though i havent tried this on windows)

bon apetite! :p

ok, 23 downloads, i think its fair to poke a bit ;)

i think most of you guys use windows, anyone compiled/run it successfully on windows?
anyone planning on messing around with the source? new front end or gameplay? i have some ideas for mods of the traditional game, i was also considering writing AI for a compeditor snake. (so much for me not planning to continue with this project ;) )
any questions / comments are welcome. :)

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Originally Posted by Perspective

anyone compiled/run it successfully on windows?

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Here's a how-to for dev-cpp (windows), if anyone's interested:

1. If you don't already have GLUT then download GLUT for Mingw32 from this page. Follow the readme.txt in the glutming.zip download to add relevant headers, libs and glut32.dll to their respective directories.
2. Open up dev-cpp and create a new console, c++ or windows c++ project
3. Add Perspective's source files to your project (project menu--> Add to project). No modifications to those files are required.
4. Now add the libs: project menu --> project options, select 'parameters' tab. Add the following to the 'linker' field:
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   -lglut32
-lopengl32
-lglu32

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5. A couple of options need to be passed to the compiler; the first is mandatory the second may not be (it isn't if you build from the command line). Open the 'projects' dialog (if you have closed it) to the 'parameters' tab as described for 'libs' above and add the following to the 'C++ Compiler' field:
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   -DGLUT_DISABLE_ATEXIT_HACK
-D_WCHAR_T_DEFINED

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6. Compile the project

If you built as a console project you'll get a console and a window; the console displays some information about game progress.

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Originally Posted by Perspective

any questions / comments

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Question - Why GLUT? [/rhetorical]
Comment - I hate GLUT. :(

A score would be nice but it's very playable all the same. Good stuff. :)

edit: Made some corrections - it's ok to build as a windows project and not just as a console as I originally had.

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Originally Posted by Ken Fitlike

Here's a how-to for dev-cpp (windows), if anyone's interested:

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wow, thanks Ken.

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Originally Posted by Ken Fitlike

Question - Why GLUT? [/rhetorical]
Comment - I hate GLUT. :(

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heh, basically i used glut because 1) i wanted to keep the project simple. 2) i like linux, most users here on the game board use windows, glut is a pretty nice multi-platform solution.

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Originally Posted by Ken Fitlike

A score would be nice but it's very playable all the same. Good stuff. :)

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Hmmm, music eh? might be worth the time. thanks for the feedback ;)

>Hmmm, music eh?
I think he means keeping score, so you can compare how much you 0wnz0r vs other people on the board.

Just for your info, VS.NET 2002 complained about only const static integral data members is allowed to be initialized inside a class or struct. It is easily fixed though (if anybody else has this problem):

Code:

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// Change this in Item.h
class Item : public GraphicObject {

 protected:
  int points;
  int lifeTime;
  int creationTime;
  const static float len = 1.0f / (2*(WIDTH+5)); // 1/2 length of drawable width/height

 public:
        Item() { init(); }
  Item(Point2i p) { setPos(p.x, p.y); init(); }
  Item(int x, int y) { setPos(x, y); init(); }
 ~Item() {}

  void init() { points = 0; }
  void setPoints(int p) { points = p; }
  int getPoint() { return points; }

  virtual void draw();
};

// to

class Item : public GraphicObject {

 protected:
  int points;
  int lifeTime;
  int creationTime;
  const float len; // 1/2 length of drawable width/height

 public:
        Item():len(1.0f / (2*(WIDTH+5))) { init(); }
  Item(Point2i p):len(1.0f / (2*(WIDTH+5))) { setPos(p.x, p.y); init(); }
  Item(int x, int y):len(1.0f / (2*(WIDTH+5))) { setPos(x, y); init(); }
  ~Item() {}

  void init() { points = 0; }
  void setPoints(int p) { points = p; }
  int getPoint() { return points; }

  virtual void draw();
};

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And

Code:

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// In file SnakeBit.h change
class SnakeBit : public GraphicObject {

  SnakeBit* next;
  const static float len = 1.0f / (2*WIDTH); // 1/2 length of drawable width/height

 public:
        SnakeBit() { next = NULL; }
    SnakeBit(const Point2i p) { setPos(p.x, p.y); next = NULL; }
    SnakeBit(int x, int y) { setPos(x, y); next = NULL; }
    ~SnakeBit() {}

    SnakeBit* getNext() { return next; }


    void setNext(SnakeBit* n) { next = n; }

    void moveVertical(int amount) { pos.y += amount; }
    void moveHorizontal(int amount) { pos.x += amount; }

    virtual void draw();
};

// to
class SnakeBit : public GraphicObject {

  SnakeBit* next;
  const float len; // 1/2 length of drawable width/height

 public:
        SnakeBit():len(1.0f / (2*WIDTH)) { next = NULL; }
    SnakeBit(const Point2i p):len(1.0f / (2*WIDTH)) { setPos(p.x, p.y); next = NULL; }
    SnakeBit(int x, int y):len(1.0f / (2*WIDTH)) { setPos(x, y); next = NULL; }
    ~SnakeBit() {}

    SnakeBit* getNext() { return next; }


    void setNext(SnakeBit* n) { next = n; }

    void moveVertical(int amount) { pos.y += amount; }
    void moveHorizontal(int amount) { pos.x += amount; }

    virtual void draw();
};

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This was the only way I could get the game running (if I copied it correctly :D ) but otherwise it is nice!

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Originally Posted by XSquared

>Hmmm, music eh?
I think he means keeping score, so you can compare how much you 0wnz0r vs other people on the board.

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heh, yeah. that was my attempt at dry sarcasm ;)

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Originally Posted by Shakti

VS.NET 2002 complained about only const static integral data members is allowed to be initialized inside a class or struct

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hmm, i thought const static members were allowed to be initialized that way. gcc doesnt complain, and it looks like dev-cpp doesnt complain either. Im not entirely sure what the standard is but i think id put my money with gcc over microsoft :)

Yah so would I but just thought you would like to know.