The first release of the Breakout clone is finally here.

The Installer will install directx and the visual studio 2010 re-distributable.

If you would prefer to run the game through a zip file, you can download it from here. You will have to make sure that you have the visual studio 2010 re-distributa…

[color=rgb(40,40,40)][font=arial][font=arial]Version 2.0 of Asteroids has been released[/font][/font][/color]

• Added Redefinable Controls
  
• Allowing Toggle FullScreen/Windowed Immediately
  
  The setup can be downloaded here

[color=rgb(40,40,40)][font=arial]Version 1.1 of Asteroids has been released[/font][/color]

• Added High Score Screen. Top 10 scores are tracked.
  
• Ship is flashed on on invinciblity for the 1st 5 seconds
  
  The setup can be downloaded here

For my next project, I have decided to make a clone of Asteroids as my second project. I would like to have a finished game by March 31st which gives me a month to finish the game. This time will include all the enhancements required in the engine so that the game is playable

[subheading]Why Asteroi…

I have decided to stop working on MPong. The reasons for this include

I have been working on MPong for so long that it was tough to find motivation to continue working on it.

Although I was continuously adding features to the engine, I was not building up my portfolio

I want to test my engine with ano…

I have a new setup on the Pong Clone that I have been working.

New features include

• Help Screen
  
• Options Screen
  
• Pause Screen (in game)
  
• Music and SFX
  
  The setup can be downloaded here
  The archive can be downloaded here

I have written a wrapper around DirectSound to take care of the sound.
I have also background music which was taken from http://www.nosoapradio.us/
I am currently working on a Options screen which allows to disable/enable the SFX and music channels and also set the respective volumes.

So I finally got around to making an installer using nsis.
The setup can be downloaded here

Edit:
The Archive can be downloaded here

ScreenShots
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I have finally got a playable prototype up and running.
The game supports both Single Player and Multiplayer Modes.

This also means that I have the following modules finished

Game Logic

Graphics

Input

UI

AI

You can see the whole list here
[entry='2254511']What does making Pong take[/entry]

Next, I will …

This snippet shows how to convert a point on screen to a corresponding point in the world. It borrows heavily from the concept of ray-tracing.

Let x and y be the point on the screen which we want to convert to the world space.
We need to create a ray which passes through the camera and the point(x, y…