Games in VFP...

[Neil Toulouse]

Slightly off the beaten track this one!!

I was having a 'discussion' with my housemate about how powerful an OO language VFP had become, and to show him I started to write a copy of the old Nintendo Game & Watch game 'Turtle Bridge'. I then thought I could add this as a hidden feature in an application

I managed to add the graphics (looked very much like the original) and the buttons and got as for as coding the movement of the sprites before I got bored and gave up! (I couldn't be bothered to work out the game logic).

But I was very impressed with what you could achieve if you put your mind to it!!

Has anyone else written a game, or more specifically something that VFP wasn't desgined to be used for? "I love work. I could sit and stare at it for hours..."

 

[rgbean]

While you might have some trouble with a lot of "action" games, my company currently sells a number of video games that are based on BINGO and Poker, that run on touch screen setups in BINGO halls and Casinos across the U.S. I dare say that none of the players know that they are running a Visual FoxPro application on Win98!

Rick

 

[Neil Toulouse]

Hi Rick!

Did you choose to use VFP for the job or was it determined by your VFP skills?

I am glad to see you are earning money from VFP gaming! I might get around to finishing off the Game & Watch, but as no-one is paying for it, it stays on the back burner!

Neil "I love work. I could sit and stare at it for hours..."

 

[rgbean]

We choose VFP because our staff of 10 programmers has mostly VFP experience and other than the obvious visual front end, most of the functionallity is data oriented. However because it's actually made up from a number of COM servers that "talk" to each other, it would be easy to replace the pieces if another platform provided more capabilities in any of the required tasks. We've aready talked about replacing the actual database storage with SQL server in larger installations. But right now this design seems to be able to handle all we can throw at it.

Rick