if your a gamer and enjoy building games what are your top achivements in making them? what are your game themes?
do you have any "words of wisdom" for a newbie?
thanks
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if your a gamer and enjoy building games what are your top achivements in making them? what are your game themes?
do you have any "words of wisdom" for a newbie?
thanks
Nothing nada zip zero zilch.
So, as one newbie to another, I welcome you the wonderful world of VB game programming!
lol!
thanks!
:D
us newbies gatta stick together!
lol
I've only written one game, and that was because I had nothing else to do. It took me ten hours and one thousand lines of code (not counting comments). It's called Space Blaster, and it's kinda like Asteroids, except the asteroids shoot back. :) It sucks though, because I had no resources on the box I did it on (no Dx, no Inet, nothing, just the tools that install with VB). All the graphics are just the graphics that ship with VB, and I used mock multi-threading (millions and millions of timers). As you can tell, I was a newb when I wrote it. ;)
here's one of the games i've made (really bad, but i dont make many games)
They're all SUPER COOL (lol) I included map editors.. Mario first, who hasn't done mario?? Uh oh.. WHERES MARIO?! I CANT FIND IT!! Ok, missile command then.
Hey, it's not too bad.. ignore the slowdown :(
well i've made both 'who wants to be a millionaire' and 'wheel of fortune' for class projects, (best in class by the way :D), i would post them, but with all the sound effects and music and graphics, they both top out at over 100+ mb each. now that i know better i'd definetely use DirectX though the next time i ever have to do it.
:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: theres definately gotta be a better way to use graphics if it gets over 100 megs!!!!!!!!!!!!Quote:
Originally posted by golgo13sf
well i've made both 'who wants to be a millionaire' and 'wheel of fortune' for class projects, (best in class by the way :D), i would post them, but with all the sound effects and music and graphics, they both top out at over 100+ mb each. now that i know better i'd definetely use DirectX though the next time i ever have to do it.
who wants to be a millionaire games have been done to hell recently :(
hey, i didn't choose the assignments, my prof did. well all those .wav files add up big time ( i wanted it to be as close to the tv show as possible, so i hunted down all the sound clips and music i could find, and some of my own for some transition screens), i'd say the sound effects made up %75+ of the game. but i've also learned quite a bit since then, it would be nowhere as big if i did it now.
*personally, i would have found the assignment more interesting if it was to make Ikari Warriors
ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA
hmm...think i'll occupy myself trying to remember how many 8bit game cheat codes i can remember...UUDDLRLRSelectStart, 107-373-5963 <--mike tyson, dear god i remember that, god damn, if i lost my cell phone with all my numbers in it i would have to wait for my girlfriend to call me, yet i remember that...
:cool:
I just finished a Crossword puzzle makers (Generates crossword with about 500 words in < 30 seconds on a 266!!!!!! ... school computers...) I got 99% on it, got marks off for documentation, lol.
I am currently working on our next project, which is checkers. I've made level 1 AI (random piece, random move) but the next level of AI, my teacher wants me to select the BEST piece and the BEST SPOT to move... quite hard if you ask me.
ABBA DOWN ABBA DOWN UP UP - Mortal Kombat 3 :cool:
Hey how were my progs? I saw that at least SOMEONE dled them, haven't gotten any input from them yet.
Yep, bored out o my mind
lol
ill DL them at school... i anit got VB at home....let alone winzip...:(
besides the school has Super fast connection! woot!
Definitely! This is where i do all of my vb!
(although i should sneak in my laptop and steal it!!)
*already has*
>>"
My best, and probably only playable, game:
www23.brinkster.com/padster/patrpg.zip
And this would probably be my best and only playable game.....hehehe
http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...hreadid=207760
By the way sql_lall, I couldn't see what attacked me, but it sure did win....hehehehe
I think you really can't be a gamer and REAL programmer at the same time...;)
How fast connection do you have at home then?Quote:
Originally posted by SmashX
lol
ill DL them at school... i anit got VB at home....let alone winzip...:(
besides the school has Super fast connection! woot!
Hey now, that's close to being heresy!!! :)Quote:
Originally posted by petrus
I think you really can't be a gamer and REAL programmer at the same time...;)
Machaira: Hehehee...but if he modify the sentence a bit and say:
"I think you really can't be a gamer and REAL programmer and have a life at the same time..."
...then it might be true...;)
You could do some kind of equation.
IQ = (GamePerformance + CodePerfomance) / Life
RealLife = 1 / (LinesofCode * DebugHours)
I wonder how many lines of code I've written and how many hours I've been debuging... That'll be the first question I ask a magician.
I made Doom 3 ya know...:cool:
Did you make Doom 3. Really ???
Carmack then?
Life = 5000 - Sqr(Sqr(Codingtime ^ 2 + Gametime ^2) + DoingStupidPointlessStuffForNoReasonTime)^3) \ PeopleBeatUp
*time is counted in minutes
So, how low does your life go?
Life = 5000 - Sqr(Sqr(946079170560000 + 186624000000) + 172800)^3) \ 0
Life =5000 - 172051728587.528 \ 0
Error: Division by zero
PeopleBeatUp = How many people I have beaten up???
PeopleBeatUp = How many people have beaten me up???
I'm confused...
Ah it's 0 anyway.
I did beat up a couple of US Marins this winter and nearly a couple of SEALS, if that counts....
Duha
Quote:
Originally posted by petrus
Duha
And what is that supposed to mean....
Don't know really..
Im not sure, but i think that samll boys from sweeden has to go to the military as well. So if you work hard you might beat up some NAVY SEALS or US Marins, or SAS by your selves some day....;)