Game Idea??

[thurst0n]

I just finished the infamous Tic Tac Toe game, and it is complete with just about anything a tictactoe game can have. Including AI and a one or two player option. I was wondering if anyone had any ideas for another game that would be challenging yet one that I would be capable of. I do not know much about graphics yet, but I'd be willing to learn. Any ideas at all would be welcome...Thanks!

[Arie]

Try the old 8-pieces puzzle...
The correct: (when winning)
1 2 3
4 5 6
7 8 _

8 pieces of a picture... you know..
At start you randomize the order...
The player can move pieces to the free space only...

Example:
4 3 1
_ 2 7
8 6 5

Player can move only the 4,2 and 8 to the free space.

That's easy to do, so try improving it by parting the picture into more pieces...

Just and idea that crossed my mind...
Arie.

[thurst0n]

That's a good idea...I do not know how do do ANYTHING with directdraw though...does anyone here know any good sites that would have a tutorial? or how else would you suggest that I do it?

[BodwadUK]

www.directx4vb.com

[NoteMe]

What language are you using. Go to directx4vb.com . If you are using VB6 then you have to use DX7 for DDraw, if you are using VB.NET then you have to use DX9. If you are using VC++ then you can choose between DX7 and DX9....

BTW I have written two tutorials at DeveloperKB.com about how to start game programming. It is two versions of the snake game. One very simple using picture boxes and one using BitBlt, might be simpler to start with then DX. Just click in the signature for a link to the site...

An other nice game you can make is two flying objects that tryes to catch a small object that is moving on on the screen. I think I have posted a DDraw game like that here somewhere....

[NoteMe]

Originally posted by BodwadUK
www.directx4vb.com

**** you....I wrote more then you....

[Arie]

You can do the game I proposed with simple BitBlt function.

Arie.

[BodwadUK]

still beat you

[NoteMe]

Originally posted by BodwadUK
still beat you

I will get you next time....and I still write more then you....

[CornedBee]

Has anyone got Managed DirectDraw to work? I can remember it being extremly buggy.

[NoteMe]

If I remember right managed code is only for .NET and I am not using it. So I suppose you are talking about DX9, since DX9 is mainly for .NET. It is suposed to work the same way as in DX7, but sorry I have never tested it.

[CornedBee]

DX9 is still mainly for C++, like any DX before it.

Managed DX is a part of DX9, a wrapper for DX in the managed world, like the DX7+8 wrappers for VB6. And its DirectDraw wrapping was terribly buggy when I tested it.

[BodwadUK]

DX9 is the first properly supported by VB.net but only really contains previous support that was found in VB6.

[Arie]

Hey thurstOn!!
Are you working on the game I proposed at first place??
How is it going?

Arie.

[thurst0n]

Lol thanks guys, I love reading your posts..and I love how my thread has become a contest of who can help the idiots(that's me) the most...

Arie no I have not started working on your game, I think I'm going to aim my sites a little higher with something else. Your suggestion wouldn't be harder than tic-tac-toe it would just take longer(not the way I'd do it anyway) I'm going to explore this BitBlt thing that I have no idea about

And for those of you who wondered I am currently learning VB.NET

Thanks again for all your help!! Any other tutorial websites would be greatly appreciated thanks!

[thurst0n]

Just incase you guys dont realize... I need the most basic of basics...

[NoteMe]

I don't think there is that many that knows anything about vb.NET here.......sorry....maybe you should try to ask in the VB.NET section just in case...