What you think of my games?

[GuitarMan]

Here are two games i have writen recently, pls have a look and tell me what you think. Oh, and pls remember these are only my 2nd and 3rd games so be gentle.

The games are:

Steroids (Asteroids) - really more like space invaders but good fun and writen in one day!

SFake (Snake) - I've been working on this over the last few weeks on and off it looks quite good and is great fun.

[Gaming_World]

Neither of them ran on my computer. Steroids gave me a runtime error (can not create auto redraw object.), and snake was just black. I didn't spend any time looking at the code though. With snake, do you make sure that you don't move too fast?

[drewski]

i had pretty much the same results, but the snake game didn't show up all black for me. it showed some of those gray blocks and an apple. Then it said i died.



there's my 2 cents worth


Drewski

[Gaming_World]

Those were the same results that I had, I just ran out of time to finish the post.

[drewski]

oh. gotch ya.

so mr. banjo man , do you have the solution to these problems or are you going to make us find em?

[Sastraxi]

Snake prob: set the form to vbMaximized before running it.
I didn't try the other game.

[Herbatic]

Both games worked fine for me

What did I think of them? Well they are basic kinds of games, which is hardly surprising (this is VB, and this you are a one-man game team?), but they work properly. Good work so far, definitely more than I've ever tried to do, now just work on them some more, modify snake to have multiple levels, and put menus/ability to restart into it. Maybe make snake read the level out of files, and make it so there can be different looking walls, then you can have a level editor. Oh, and a high-score file (and scores), then you could put them in a windows entertainment package type thingy.

I haven't looked at the code yet, I will later though.

[flufke]

the both "games" are very slow on my pc....and where is the the snake???

[Herbatic]

How to make Snake work: Resize the form a little larger (1/2 larger again maybe)

I've had a look at snake again, and I might have found a bug. I was playing, and it seemed that when i turned sometimes it had an incorrect death. I just tried to duplicate it though and I couldn't so maybe I just suck at snake.

Anyway, I had a look at the code. It's pretty good, and I've learnt a few tricks from it (mainly how to use bitblt). I am assuming that seeing as you posted it open source, comments on improvements to the code are welcome? I've got one suggestion, just a simple one to simplify code in PlaceApples:

Private Sub PlaceApples()
Randomize Timer
Dim Applecoordinates As Coordinate
Do
    With Applecoordinates
        .X = Rnd * 15
        .Y = Rnd * 15
    End With
    If CellContents(Applecoordinates.X, Applecoordinates.Y) = 0 Then
        If Rnd < 0.1 Then
            CellContents(Applecoordinates.X, Applecoordinates.Y) = goldenApple
        Else
            CellContents(Applecoordinates.X, Applecoordinates.Y) = Apple
        End If
        Exit Do
    End If
Loop
End Sub

Oh, and also now that I've read the code for snake I see that you've already made it read the level layout from a file. Well, it's as they say, great minds think alike

[Jotaf98]

I downloaded the new version and Steroids doesn't seem to work. It gives me a "Can't create Autoredraw image" error, but I'm sure I have enough memory (RamBooster says I have 58444kb available ). I tried setting everything to Autoredraw=False, but now it draws diagonal lines starting in the bottom of the screen, to the left part of the screen!