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If you want to do a 3D game, there's plenty of free engines available... Working a modified version of the DOOM engine might actually be a good idea as it only requires 2D sprites rather than full 3D models... If we use an engine like Doomsday/jDoom we could even eventually put in 3D models if we felt like it...
I want to be sephiroth.
I have a couple of ideas:
what about a game like warcraft/command & conquer/starcraft?
you can start with the basics,getting the game done an running in single player mode
and then adding the multiplayer support. I think making it 2d like warcraft would
be easier,but if you want something more "eye candy",an isometric view like starcraft
could work.
And,why not C?,it should be easier than c++,and I think you'll get more people
involved with the project,the compiler and library set could be agreed/voted.
(djgpp,watcom,whatever).
I can't think of a way to implement emuparadise-based characters or stuff in
a warcraft-like game,but that's the job of the creativity departament :)
I suggest using c and compilling in something that supports the allegro library,
this way you won't have to worry about creating your own graphics library.
(why opengl?,why not just software rendering so everybody will be able to use it?).
And,it even offers some degree of freedom in the choice of compilers,if the
"allowed" compilers all support allegro,it won't be hard to port the code
generated for other compiler to the one you choose,so you can partipate in the
project.(in theory,I guess).
Anyway,that's my idea.
Ok,my reasons are kinda selfish:
-I know some C but not C++
-I use DOS and compilers like djgpp and turbo c
-I love warcraft :)
you:"go back to the 80s!"
-I wish I could :)
I want to fight bad guys with my large penis.
C++ is more flexable i hear and is much easier to use... or so they say... I hear they also say it runs slightly faster than C... But i have no proof to back it up and no one proved any of that to me. So... Don't hold me to it, but i wouldn't be surprised. There must be a reson people switch from C to C++.
But hey, at least you were honest at the end of your post on why you said C over C++. Most don't have the guts to do that.
Well, im composer, and also Deplhi/C++ programmer, soooo....
If you need me, youll get me %)
Well, most C code can be compiled as C++, without any losses. C++ has numerous extensions that make it easier to code in (function overloading, hell yeah!), but being a pretty object oriented language, it's usually slower than C. However, object oriented programming makes larger projects easier to comprehend in their entirety. Really. If you make an object that does it's work correctly, you usually won't have to worry about it afterwards exactly HOW it does the job. That simplifies things a lot. It won't be as fast if you'd done it without objects (and obviously not as fast as coding it in Assembler), but it works reliably.
True... but anything's better than java... No offence to the java programmers out there... but it's provent to be really slow... Just a question from some one who's not been doing much programming... exactly what makes 1 language run faster than another?
It's not the language, it's a matter of how optimised the standard functions are. Java is designed to be totally platform-independent (play the stuff in your browser or on your mobile phone, even), and therefore it's going to be slower than pretty much anything else.Quote:
Originally Posted by kohlrak
Well, I've chilled out this weekend so I haven't really done much, but I want to try and make a start on it tomorrow, so I'll have a look at the suggestions here, and see what I can come up with this week :D
If anyone else wants to try and do something they are more than welcome to, and hopefully something nice will come of it :)
Tell me if you need something in between me working on P to P (ptop.aborman.com ;P)
Hmm, can't really think of anything i can get you to do at the moment :SQuote:
Originally Posted by Borman
Well I've just installed Visual studio 2005 beta 2 that a friend passed to me (on disc, no illegal downloading :P) and I must admit this C++ is much harder :S I read up a lot on it, but it does seem a lot different, all I've done so far is a practice program and fiddled around with the icon so it looks like the Emuparadise tree :P
The program itself does sod all, I'll just try and make something resembling a game in the mean time lol
Edit: seems it won't run so I'll remove the program for the time being
That's why you don't use beta compilers. lol Visual C++ 6.0 is great, but i think i found my unicode problem. wchar_t (within the compiler) is considered a short, and to get it to work i need to convert it to a long i guess, but when i do that, it converts certain text (like the "�" will become "c"...) back to normal. I wish some one would come up with an answer to that one on the thread at the top of the boards. lol
I think I might backtrack to Visual C++ 6.0 but I cannot find my copy (lost ARGHHH) meh, I think my brother still has it back home in Ireland.Quote:
Originally Posted by kohlrak
If i were you, i wouldn't, but if you do keep the one you have. I hear that one actually does have wchar_t support that works. I don't know enough about IO to fix it. Otherwise, i would and recommend back tracking.