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simple game source
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DurhamWolf
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Hi, which direction do u want to go, Direct X or MFC?
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If you want it to work in linux as well, then I'd guess that you want to learn OpenGL
(Which is supported toa point in Windows, but MS won't be extending their OpenGL libraries directly, you'll need to learn extensions if you wnat to really get into graphics.
I don't have any source code I can offer, but what exactly is it you want to know. as this is the MS forum, I take it that you can code already in MS C++, butr to what level. Do you understand how to use MFC, or Win32. Can you use direct draw ? Do you understand linked lists etc ?
Sorry if this is all basic and patronising, but like other kinds of programming, there are a lot of basics that you need to go into a game ( I am not saying that you need all of the above, but understanding of 1 or 2 of them may help)
And for the record, Chess isn't a simple game. On other forums I am on, those new to games often start with a tetris, or a pong clone, before moving on to pacman type games to get used to the basics. If you like RPG's I'd maybe consider making a text adventure to get used to designing / coding a structured environment.
Feel free to ask some specific questions and you will find help here. other than that, for simple game source code, you can always google, but code others have written is not often as easy to understand or learn from as something you have designed yourself
(Which is supported toa point in Windows, but MS won't be extending their OpenGL libraries directly, you'll need to learn extensions if you wnat to really get into graphics.
I don't have any source code I can offer, but what exactly is it you want to know. as this is the MS forum, I take it that you can code already in MS C++, butr to what level. Do you understand how to use MFC, or Win32. Can you use direct draw ? Do you understand linked lists etc ?
Sorry if this is all basic and patronising, but like other kinds of programming, there are a lot of basics that you need to go into a game ( I am not saying that you need all of the above, but understanding of 1 or 2 of them may help)
And for the record, Chess isn't a simple game. On other forums I am on, those new to games often start with a tetris, or a pong clone, before moving on to pacman type games to get used to the basics. If you like RPG's I'd maybe consider making a text adventure to get used to designing / coding a structured environment.
Feel free to ask some specific questions and you will find help here. other than that, for simple game source code, you can always google, but code others have written is not often as easy to understand or learn from as something you have designed yourself
Hi,
However I've never used it(though I've read some doc about it in order to write a game, in another life
), I advise to take a look at SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) :
It is cross-platform and you can manage through it other aspects than video only : keyboard, joystick, audio.
It seems to be pretty powerful, and you can read some tutorials in the website. Also there are other projects around it, such as games, many of them should be packaged with their source code.
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Globos
However I've never used it(though I've read some doc about it in order to write a game, in another life
), I advise to take a look at SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) :It is cross-platform and you can manage through it other aspects than video only : keyboard, joystick, audio.
It seems to be pretty powerful, and you can read some tutorials in the website. Also there are other projects around it, such as games, many of them should be packaged with their source code.
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Globos
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