C++ Game Programming

[Tawa]

Originally Posted by Kingroudy

anyway, i told u that this is your choice.

Thank You

Originally Posted by Sony

and what do u do in a company when the boss told u to show the source code to some mates in order to update it ???
in the workgroup no black boxes

Well, About The Company And The Boss Question, Of Course I Would Share The Source Code To "All" My Mate In Order To Update It, Cause In A Company It's Work, And Source Codes Arn't Something Private... We're In A Different Situation In Here Dude

Originally Posted by ZeRaW

open source is gr8 but there tutorials online everywhereunless u r too lazy to follow step by step tutorials. Great work Tawa especially you are a beginner. Now what you are missing is a game loop. if you want some advanced shit try nehe.gamedev.net and you will get started with openGL. yeah everything is that easy
anways in your case you do not needmultithreading you are just missing the concept of a game loop.

Thanks For The Web, I'll Start Surfing It As Soon As I Get The Internet At Home, Oh, And It's Very Soon I Hope

Originally Posted by ZeRaW

everything is running in a while(1) loop here is a small example:
in a small way this is what is usually done for a game.
well there are lots of more stuff but hawdeh el basics. and check that neeh thing i gave you,, i know you are smart so you ll be programming an ambient occlusion shader in just a few months
while(1)
{
clearBackground();
if(escape is pressed) exit()
updatePlayerMovement();
updateAI();//if there is AI
draw()
}

I Didn't Use A while(1) Loop, I Created A Function To Check When The Game Is Over, And I Used The do{}while(!gameover(T) && !lostgame);
The gameover(const char T[22][42]) Function Checks When There Arn't Anymore Characters That The Snake Should Eat And Return A true Value When There Arn't Anymore Ones, It Is Made To Move From A Level To Another, And The lostgame Variable Turns Into true When The Snake Hits The Wall Or Hits Itself.

Originally Posted by icemaker

simply we need experince we need upgrade,
eno a very simple example if u created a gam like this one and lets say one of the members upgraded it, arent you gonna benefit ?!?!

thank you.

Thank You For Your Appreciation Budy , About The Benefits, I'm A Learn-Yourself Guy

Originally Posted by Sony

Ideas for Updates:

• option to save/load ( cs user can't play all the way ! )
• option to change controllers ( user will feel comfortable with his own controllers )
• option to change the color of the snake,the borders the food ( user may like to put Orange,yellow,green-olive,etc...)
• make it hard for the user and add some obstacles in the field ( like a rock)

PS: u train urself as programmer i train myself as tester...lol
btw they say : for each Microsoft programmer a tester

Great Ideas For Updates, I'll Start Working On Them And I Would Be Glade To Take You As The Tester Of My Programs

[Tawa]

Sorry For My Late Reply But I Was So Busy Last Week, Tawa Seniór Was In Lebanon And I Started My 2nd Semester

Anyways, I Worked On Some Of The Upgrade But There's Still A Little Bug That I'll Leave You Guys To Figure Out
I Added A Menu To The Game, I Hope You'll Like It
Here's The Link: Snake

[m0]

Personal opinion, There are a million snakes program out there which is free and no source code, and with source code which is complete. As other members here stated, this game is not a "new" game, it is already done and already polished. So why wont you post your source code so others can see how you did it? I really don't care cause googling Sake Game Source Code gives a million responses. But it is the thought that counts, and your thought states that your against it.

Technically speaking, creating a Snakes or a Tetris game isn't difficult, it is a very simple logic game. If your a new to programming, it shouldn't take you more than a couple of days doing it. But if you understand programming, it shouldn't take you more than a couple of hours. With a good design and know a bit of programming, I recall the logic of the snakes game is around ~100 LOC.

For example, http://www.strille.net/tutorials/snake/index.php is a snakes game made in Flash (action script), it is around 100 LOC and as you see it is simple conditional statements such as forloop, if, else.

So if you guys want to learn programming, it is very simple, everyone learns from others and the opensource community is there so it can teach others and others can improve it. That is how most smart programmers learn these days, by being part of an open source project and giving to the community

[xcoder]

I don't feel it would be a mistake sharing your codes with others. same thing applies on you when you download examples from the internet. note that people worked hard for them as well.
i don't mind sharing my codes for educational purposes. therefor i am for open source because it's the only way to learn fast from other's hard work and way of programming
i will start coding an important application this summer and launch it as open source so anyone can add to it, modify in it and it will be totally free of charges.

[Gilgamesh]

Man this is good....keep it up!

and concerning the source issue although I use Linux because I appreciate open source....I can understand what tawa is talking about since he can't be credited in anyway(something which the developers of linux distro's get) if he passes the code to someone else...

again nice work tawa