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Howdy all,

Well, as some of you may know, I'm currently doing a Game Development Diploma. For our first project, we were given the task of writing a 2D game using SDL (and a little bit of OpenGL too.. for rotation and transparency).

I decided to base my game on The TomatoFamily, and started proper work on it today. I might update this thread as I progress. I have 3 weeks to complete it.

The style is a top-down shooter. My design document included enemy vegetables/fruits and the background was a chopping board

I got the splash screen working today, aswell as some basic sprite animation. Heres the splash screen (I took this screenshot on my PC.. yes, its themed like a Mac):



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lol chem... the word "Worms" comes to mind for some strange reason
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Haha that looks nice. Good luck to you. Just a small criticism. Times New Roman is ugly put something cartoony to suit.
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Haha that looks nice. Good luck to you. Just a small criticism. Times New Roman is ugly put something cartoony to suit.
Its not Times New Roman Still, I'm not sure we're allowed to install fonts at school.. so that work I'll have to do at home

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Its not Times New Roman Still, I'm not sure we're allowed to install fonts at school.. so that work I'll have to do at home

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My point still stands though. Are you going to be posting programming snippets? I like to learn stuff like that.
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My point still stands though. Are you going to be posting programming snippets? I like to learn stuff like that.
SDL is completely written in C.. so most of the background stuff isn't written by me.. or anyone in my class. I could put up some stuff later? Maybe I'll attach some source later on.. when the game is looking more complete.

If you want something specific theres always MSN

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Looks awesome Chem. I reckon I could make a better one in Macromedia Flash with a little bit of Actionscript, though.

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chem man. if u do it like that old school arcade game "Raiden" that would be ****ing epic.
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Wheres the ANY Key ?!?!?!?!?
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Looks awesome Chem. I reckon I could make a better one in Macromedia Flash with a little bit of Actionscript, though.

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Yea, but you can't go from zero to hero with anything, especially programming. I'm guessing they are starting easy than working up into some real game dev.. which is actually something I need to catch you on MSN to discuss chem.
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I've written 2D games before.. in VB6. I still have my tile engine here somewhere..

Its a whole different experience with C++ and SDL/OGL. Heaps more fun

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Steal the header off our website more!!! Lol nah, its about time u had something done... GW You should use my sexy tomato in it somewhere to make your game pro
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ORSM, can't wait to play it

btw, top down shooter is like worms right?

btw2 I think this should be in game dev
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Sounds kool would love to be a trailer :P
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Howdy all,

Well, as some of you may know, I'm currently doing a Game Development Diploma. For our first project, we were given the task of writing a 2D game using SDL (and a little bit of OpenGL too.. for rotation and transparency).

I decided to base my game on The TomatoFamily, and started proper work on it today. I might update this thread as I progress. I have 3 weeks to complete it.

The style is a top-down shooter. My design document included enemy vegetables/fruits and the background was a chopping board

I got the splash screen working today, aswell as some basic sprite animation. Heres the splash screen (I took this screenshot on my PC.. yes, its themed like a Mac):





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knowing chem the whole game will be a problem...You should probably start complaining now
"fkn reGo why dA fk rNt deZe frkn TomaToz DYYYYINGZ!!1one?"

Anyway, keep us informed on your progress.
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Ewwww, god no. I don't think anyone considers anything C++ related to be scripting.. no matter how tiny.

It isn't a walk in the park, even with the SDL sitting there written for you.

Today I got the player moving properly, and created a proper "ship" sprite, aswell as tomato seeds for ammo. I also created a delay on the shots (1.0/8.0 per second).

Attached is a screenshot of the game, and a look at my bullet code. The bullet code is mostly what I've worked on today.. aswell as waste some time resizing a tomato seed picture (had to giggle as it looked like.. well, you know )

EDIT: To billy: I physically removed the clutter of soft-deletes. I don't think anyone minds, it makes this thread easier to read.

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Very nice chem Hopefully maybe when its done if you would host it so I can have a go of the tomatoes