Weekend Challenge #1

rooly · Post by **rooly** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 9:58 pm

Our first weekend challenege has started. Bitplane made the rules in the older thread, but we've decided to use a single thread for each weekend. Here are week 1's rules:

Okay, here's the plan..
make an arcade action game that you loved, before monday morning.
No restrictions on the APIs or anything used, just have lots of fun making it!

I think I'm gonna do a remake of Jetpac, which I spent a lot of my youth playing.

Some other ideas in case you're stuck-

Missile Command (easy)
Pong/Breakout (easy)
PacMan (pretty hard)
Spy Hunter (medium)
Q*Bert (easy)
Joust (easy)
Donkey Kong (easy)
Phoenix (medium)
Defender (tough!)

LET BATTLE COMMENCE!! (who's playing?)

like he said, lets play!

rooly · Post by **rooly** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 10:03 pm

I've got dibs on spy hunter.

Monkeycracks is doing pong.

Armen...ask him what he's doing.

monkeycracks · Post by **monkeycracks** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 10:08 pm

Download

Here's my multiplayer hotseat pong. The readme file explains the controls. I think before the weekend is over I'll add in sound and I MIGHT add a computer opponent

EDIT : Sorry, Windows only.

bitplane · Post by **bitplane** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 12:35 am

you've got ages left yet monkey, let's see some AI!

Armen said he was doing 'digger', I guess it's like digdug or boulderdash. Erus said he'd attempt snake in 3D, which should be pretty cool.

I'm afraid my game is gonna be a bit of a letdown, I didn't realise they'd already remade jetpac twice... my graphics are gonna suck in comparison. I'll try to keep it true to the original though

monkeycracks · Post by **monkeycracks** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 1:14 am

I'll try to get some AI done but I may have gotten bit by a brown recluse so I'm gonna wait and see the progress on that...

I updated my DL link with teh basic sound and stuff.. and I doubt your project will be as much of a letdown as Pong ;D

Lonesome Ducky · Post by **Lonesome Ducky** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 3:18 am

Ahh jetpac, sweet, sweet memories!

I actually started a pong game, but it was already taken

But anyway here is a screenshot:

I think I'll do asteroids, if thats ok.

monkeycracks · Post by **monkeycracks** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 12:40 pm

Hahah, it's better than mine

Armen138 · Post by **Armen138** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 4:19 pm

working on Digger... just started

bitplane · Post by **bitplane** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 1:03 am

any progress guys?

Here's mine:

Use cursor keys and shift. Extra life awarded at 20,000 points. The the trick is to get as many extra lives for the UFOs (5th level), you'll need em!

Download: Here

If you wanna recompile, source is in media.zip. beware! nasty code, written on the fly with no planning

JonLT · Post by **JonLT** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 1:01 am

I like it! ist a little hard but ist fun, my highscore: 11250