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I want to practice programming so yesterday I did Pong in OpenGL and GLUT which turned out pretty well, but now I wanna do another game..

Could use some suggestions, I'd prefer games that does NOT need textures AND stuff that I can finish in some hours...

The standard answer(I think) would be Pong, but since I've already done it( twice actually, once in AS3 and once in C++) I'd like to move onto something else. This is only for practice so I'm not polishing them completely(collisions in my pong isn't 100% accurate).

Please give me some suggestions and I'll be very happy...

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Connect 4
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Pickin' Sticks.
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Snake.
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Teh best MMO eva with ultra graaaphics an 237983 quests

or Tetris.
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Moosader wrote:Pickin' Sticks.
:lol: I love that game Rachel.
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Moosader wrote:Pickin' Sticks.
Seriously! Have you added "Uber-Nolife" rank at 200 sticks? That was a serious let down.... :lol:

Rada wrote:Connect 4
Thanks for the suggestion, I'm starting a Tic-Tac-Toe (3x3) now, I think I'll do the bigger one later. Also plan on working on my map editor tonight...

trufun202 wrote:Snake.
Thanks a lot! I totally forgot Snake, I will make a snake version some day!



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I once wanted to make a 3d Snake game. I kicked myself in the butt for not doing it after I saw Snake360 for the Xbox Live Arcade.
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Pick your favorite game genre and then make as basic of a game as you possibly can.
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fireVein wrote:Pick your favorite game genre and then make as basic of a game as you possibly can.
ummmm, I like RTSs and FPSs soooo where should I start???? oh and RPGs....
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I suppose for RTS you could start off toying with some top-down movement. Maybe some simple strategy games... maybe ability to move more than one unit.

Just build up.

I guess for FPS you can't really jump straight in like that, so you would just make simpler 2d action games (such as a space shooter) and work up.
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Sure you can. The big starting hurdle would be the camera instead of top-down movement.
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eatcomics wrote:
fireVein wrote:Pick your favorite game genre and then make as basic of a game as you possibly can.
ummmm, I like RTSs and FPSs soooo where should I start???? oh and RPGs....
What about a Tower Defence style game? Its top-down like an RTS, but with less complexity.

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trufun202 wrote:
eatcomics wrote:What about a Tower Defence style game? Its top-down like an RTS, but with less complexity.
I love those games, even though I can't stand RTS's.. weird.

Does this have to be a full game? I like making little systems within games. For instance, you can make a battle system, and even start out text-based, and move on from there. You get practice in, and you can even use it in a full game later on.
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RyanPridgeon wrote:I suppose for RTS you could start off toying with some top-down movement. Maybe some simple strategy games... maybe ability to move more than one unit.

Just build up.

I guess for FPS you can't really jump straight in like that, so you would just make simpler 2d action games (such as a space shooter) and work up.
I could probably do it but a newb wouldn't know where to begin especially if he was still using the command line... >.>
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