My Project - Hicks With Guns

[dejai]

I have been playing around with the Irrlicht engine for a while now and I have made a couple things here and there like a simulation of the solar system and a picture viewer etc etc.. And I thought it would be a nice idea to try and program something that could actually be called a game or arcade game at least. So I thought about what I could do, trying to be modest and I decided on making a game about what a typical hick from central America would do if zombies invaded his / her town. I came to the logical conclusion that they would lock themselves in a gun store in their local town and sniper zombies from the roof.

Now the irrlicht engine being so great takes care of collision, drawing images in multiple formats, zooming, animations, particle systems, line casting , gui's , events etc.. So I thought It would be a nice thing to have a go at.

I didn't want to write the whole thing in main.cpp so I decided to draw inspiration from IRRWizard an out of date framework for the engine. So I have basically rebuilt a similar system to that to make my game. The system uses a whole bunch of cool things that make it quite easy to develop and I will give the author a bunch of credit for his great framework. Anyway the game is coming a long I have just finished the events system and I have got an intro and a menu finished.

I am going to be releasing this under the zlib/libpng licensing agreement. Anyway I have not implemented screen capture just yet into the game so I will show you some pictures of the menu and intro screen. I will post updates often.

Intro Screen:
http://dejaigames.com/dump/Images/Intro.png

Menu Background:
http://dejaigames.com/dump/Images/Menu.png

3d Map + Concept:
http://dejaigames.com/dump/Images/Image.bmp

After I finish this I will probably go and learn opengl and maybe make tetris as suggested by GyroVorbis. I respect how you guys have built your own GAME ENGINE!! and LEVEL EDITOR!! from nothing but low level libraries. This is in no way to show off. I just want feed back and honest advice so I can improve my programming etc. I will release a tar.gz maybe next week after I comment and clean up some of the code.

Also the game literally will have like 4 models, no physics or real AI. So it should be achievable... If you want to crush my dreams now would be the time...

P.S I would love to help out the project in anyway, 2d graphics, code (i doubt it), web design, forum moderating. Anyway it probably won't happen but at least I tried :D

[dandymcgee]

Hey man cool idea, I'm sure whatever you come up with be great :P. I'll be sure to check back now and then to see your progress. Good Luck !