Keepy-uppy game! [resolved]

[simonp]

Hi folks,

Mildy-experience VB6 coder here who's never made a game though!

I need to (and very quickly) create a keepy-uppy game in VB6.

For those non-soccer players, keepy-uppy is a game where you attempt to keep the ball of the ground as long as possible using your legs/feet/head/etc!

The VB6 game would simply be a full screen app with a football image that bounces. Each time the user clicks on the ball they get a point and it bounces a little higher. If the user doesn't click on the ball in time, it falls to the bottom of the screen and the game is over.

You can see a Flash version of what I'm after here.

1) Has anyone seen any examples of anything like this I can adapt?

2) Failing that, how difficult do you think it would be to knock this together (it doesn't sound particurlarly complicated!)

Thanks

Simon

[Electroman]

You mentioned it would be a full screen app, does this mean you'll want to use DirectX then? I reckon it would take longer to set up the DirectX stuff than to do the code for the game, its simpley modeling the balls physics and add some DirectInput which detects when you click on the ball and gives it a boost upwards when that happens.

Is it for a school project or something? (Just you saying you need to do it quickly). I ask this because I mad ea simple Dx7 2D engine that could do the graphical stuff you need to do but if its for a school project then they will probably want you to have done the whole code and the code in the engine is rather complex .

[BodwadUK]

Easy to do but the GFX setup will take the longest

[simonp]

Thanks folks, but I've copped out.

I had a play about but know nothing about 'directx' so got someone on rentacoder to do me an app - pretty good too!

Thanks for your feedback though!

Simon

[BodwadUK]

I could have done it for free

[simonp]

Ah well - thanks anyway. But I felt my time restraints were too much to ask for a freebie

[BodwadUK]

Whats it for?