Hey guys. I finished my first game! Of course it''s tetris. :D See a screen shot here: http://members.aol.com/AdrianoValentine/pic.jpg I''m not new to programming in C\C++... i''ve been doing that for a few years now. It''s funny, because the whole reason i started programming was to make video games, however i would never complete an actual game that i started. I guess i was always trying to accomplish things way out of my league. This time i thought i would start at the bottom like every one else, and of course i got much better results. :D I chose to use OpenGL for my game because it''s EASY and it''s AWESOME if you have a 3D acceleration card. (AND YOU SHOULD!) The game looks great in full-screen mode, especially if you have full-scene anti aliasing support like Voodoo5 cards do. (I think nVidia cards do now too...) I''m not really gonna bother uploading it, cause there''s already 50 bazillion other tetris clones on the net, and because mine isn''t anything special. I just wanted to kinda talk a bit about my first completion, and maybe even encourage some new coders out there to study hard and keep trying. It isn''t easy to make games, but if you work at it enough you''ll get something done. No matter how small and dorky my tetris clone is, i''m really glad i got something done. Now to determine what my next game will be... any suggestions? -Shane Parker

hehehe...that''s nothing...my first game was a number guessing game (text only) in TI-BASIC!!!

That was on my Texas Instruments TI-994/a

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Very cool. I''m genuinely happy for you. Good luck on you next project!

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lol, my first game was also a number guessing one. only mine was on the Applle IIe.

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I just created a snake-game. But it''s written in console mode so no graphics. (you can shoot, level-editor is being built, 2 players and automatic pilot and so on..)
I think I''ll never learn DirectX8 because every month there''s a newer version and I can''t follow it anymore :-(
Else I had liked to create a game in DX8 but it''s so.. so abstract. Sprites, textuers, lightning, dxinit, dxrelease, creating lists and objects, vertices, and so on :-( If only I had a good start (I''ve seen many, many turtorials so far and I think they would be useful but.. ya it''s not getting me anywhere)
I should have to make a game with someone else
..?(anyone)..? :-)

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I''d love to try to help you, but i''m prtty much a newbie. I know a little C++, but probably not enough to help with a game.

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quote:Original post by MrShaneParker
Hey guys. I finished my first game! Of course it''s tetris. :D

See a screen shot here: http://members.aol.com/AdrianoValentine/pic.jpg

I''m not new to programming in C\C++... i''ve been doing that for a few years now. It''s funny, because the whole reason i started programming was to make video games, however i would never complete an actual game that i started. I guess i was always trying to accomplish things way out of my league. This time i thought i would start at the bottom like every one else, and of course i got much better results. :D

I chose to use OpenGL for my game because it''s EASY and it''s AWESOME if you have a 3D acceleration card. (AND YOU SHOULD!)

The game looks great in full-screen mode, especially if you have full-scene anti aliasing support like Voodoo5 cards do. (I think nVidia cards do now too...)

I''m not really gonna bother uploading it, cause there''s already 50 bazillion other tetris clones on the net, and because mine isn''t anything special. I just wanted to kinda talk a bit about my first completion, and maybe even encourage some new coders out there to study hard and keep trying. It isn''t easy to make games, but if you work at it enough you''ll get something done.

No matter how small and dorky my tetris clone is, i''m really glad i got something done. Now to determine what my next game will be... any suggestions?



-Shane Parker

Good job dude, keep it up....



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