RiverInvaders

[gordon]

I'm just posting to show my first 'finished' game, I say finished loosely as its only finished in the sense that it has a purpose, it still has many flaws which I will never go back and fix. I won't be making any further changes to this as when I was creating it I got quite lazy and my code is an uncommented, unmaintainable mess.

I've only compiled it for linux right now so you can try it if you are a linux user if not I'm afraid you'll have to wait until 1. I find a windows machine or 2. learn how to cross compile.

You will require all the usual SDL runtime libraries installed (SDL, SDL_image,SDL_ttf,SDL_mixer).

The game I think is similar to space invaders or at least that is the closest thing I can compare it to. It is by no means perfect for example enemies ignore each other and will happily shoot through eachother/move over and beneath one another and this is partly laziness and partly because I wanted to keep their movement and positions as random as possible.



You're welcome to criticise it but please bare in mind it was hastily cobbled together in one night. Oh and you'll notice there is a level counter, I was going to implement levels but decided not to and forgot to remove that.

Controls
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W - Move up
A - Move left
S - Move down
D - Move right
SPACE - Fire weapon

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=5ad5 ... f6e8ebb871 - Extract the archive and run the executable "RiverInvaders"

[thejahooli]

I'm a windows user so can't try it but from the screenshot it looks impressive and is great for a first finished game.

[gordon]

I'm a windows user so can't try it but from the screenshot it looks impressive and is great for a first finished game.

Thanks very much but looks can be deceiving :P . I'll try and get a version for windows compiled at some point.

[Ginto8]

I'm a windows user so can't try it but from the screenshot it looks impressive and is great for a first finished game.

Thanks very much but looks can be deceiving :P . I'll try and get a version for windows compiled at some point.

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sudo apt-get install mingw32

^ On Debian, that'll get you a windows cross-compiler for linux

[kilgariff]

Hi gordon,

Looks good, but you haven't capped the framerate.
It's way too fast

Using SDL_GetTicks() gives you the amount of time that has passed since initialization in milliseconds (providing the SDL_INIT_TIMER flag was sent to SDL_Init(), or just SDL_INIT_EVERYTHING). You can leverage that to make sure the game updates are based on time instead of the speed of the user's graphics accelerator.

[gordon]

Hi gordon,

Looks good, but you haven't capped the framerate.
It's way too fast

Using SDL_GetTicks() gives you the amount of time that has passed since initialization in milliseconds (providing the SDL_INIT_TIMER flag was sent to SDL_Init(), or just SDL_INIT_EVERYTHING). You can leverage that to make sure the game updates are based on time instead of the speed of the user's graphics accelerator.

I have noticed varying speed issues but I'm sure I messily shoved framerate capping in , maybe I accidentally compiled the wrong version.....I'll look into it. thanks.

[derbon]

BLIMEY

looks like those controls are for a left-handed person. RULEFTHANDED???

[gordon]

Yes I am indeed left handed.

[LeonBlade]

I love how the whole game is just about River Invaders lol that's just awesome...


That is a pink river dolphin... put it in your game.

[MarauderIIC]

BLIMEY

looks like those controls are for a left-handed person. RULEFTHANDED???

Say what? WASD are right-handed controls, because if you're playing, say, a first-person shooter, the mouse goes in your right hand. Left-handed controls are generally the numpad, because the mouse goes in your left hand. In short, handedness of controls is determined by what hand is free to use the mouse.