Color Matching Game

NoisyPerlin · Post by **NoisyPerlin** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 1:17 am

Hi, all. I did a simple color matching game to give myself an introduction to Irrlicht. I also did a post-mortem where I wrote down some game design lessons learned from the game. Both the source code and the post-mortem can be found at http://fractalspace.com/irrlicht/colormatch.zip. I hope it proves helpful to people who are just starting with Irrlicht.

Acki · Post by **Acki** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 2:38 am

Nice work !!!

Inspired by this game I also created a little clone from an old game...
I called it IrrTris (guess what's the game...

) !!!

Download: http://people.freenet.de/abusoft

CU, Acki

Midnight · Post by **Midnight** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 11:00 am

Ok you both lose points for not having a working binary.

However you both gain 3 points for the fact that it's open source.

@color match
c:\documents and settings\admin\desktop\colormatch\main.cpp(212) : error C2374: 'i' : redefinition; multiple initialization

error at least in the msvc6 version however you gain a point for having multiple project files. and you also gain a point for making a msvc6 project file since thats what i use.

Score so far 4 point color match 3 points irrtris
However since it's a tetris clone it gets a point since I'll play it.

So it's a tie!

I havent tried compiling irrtris yet so overall my rating system is shot to hell.

But adding the 0.12 irrlicht dll myself didn't make the binary run...

I give these projects both a deserved 4 out of 10 but a 2d game can't expect a better rating unless it's a hacker game of course

Thanks and be sure to purchase the home game.

Acki · Post by **Acki** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 8:41 pm

You had problems with the game/source !?!?!
Well, I uploadet the full playable IrrTris game, now...
You can now play IrrTris without having Irrlicht installed !!!

It's on the same site:
http://people.freenet.de/abusoft

CU, Acki

Midnight · Post by **Midnight** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 8:50 pm

I got color match compiled by fixing the error.

still working on irrtris though I'll try your working version... i just realised why it wouldn't run i was using the wrong dll however I'm having problems compiling it myself but i think i know why.

MikeR · Post by **MikeR** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 9:34 pm

After moving the irrlicht.dll to the bin folder it worked perfectly. too perfectly. My wife, who loves tetris complained I was taking too long.

Oh, and I beat your score.

http://g2.3dcentral.net/main.php?g2_vie ... itemId=171

Now to go try out the color game.

Thanks for lots of fun.

NoisyPerlin · Post by **NoisyPerlin** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 9:38 pm

Acki wrote:Inspired by this game I also created a little clone from an old game...
I called it IrrTris (guess what's the game... Wink ) !!!

Nice 'Tris game, Acki. Very clean code, too.

Midnight wrote:So it's a tie!

Aw, man! 1 point away from the Midnight Seal of Approval!

Midnight wrote:I got color match compiled by fixing the error.

Oh, ok, I know what the problem is. Weirdly enough, it's Microsoft's fault rather than mine (So there!

). For some reason, in VC6, the scope of the iterative variable of a for-loop extends outside of the loop, even though according to ANSI C++ standards a for-loop's variables should not be visible outside of the loop. This is fixed in VS2003, so I forgot that you can't use duplicate for loop variables in the same scope under VC6. That used to drive me nuts back when I was using VC6 as my main compiler.

Acki · Post by **Acki** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 12:13 am

@Mike: I'm glad your wife likes the game !!!

Well, Tetris is the game, I codet several times on diferent systems...
Mainly if I'm learning a new programming language...

Ahh, and my highscore is 9600 now !!!

I think the magic border are 10000 points...
I'm wondering who'll get more than 10000 points !?!?!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 4:40 pm

Binary of colourmatch game would be nice as I have a custom Irrlicht (with lots of stuff removed) so can't build it without re-downloading standard irrlicht, install, setup in VC etc.

thnx

MikeR · Post by **MikeR** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 9:42 pm

9600???

I'll have to let my wife have the computer for the day.

The only problem I had with it was when I pressed the down arrow, I got 6-10 extra objects.

NoisyPerlin · Post by **NoisyPerlin** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 10:10 pm

Anonymous wrote:Binary of colourmatch game would be nice as I have a custom Irrlicht (with lots of stuff removed) so can't build it without re-downloading standard irrlicht, install, setup in VC etc.

thnx

Ok, here's a copy of the bin and data files.
fractalspace.com/irrlicht/colormatchbin.zip

I didn't include them initially since I pretty much made this game more as practice than as something to play on a regular basis.[/url]

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 10:28 pm

thanks. yeah sure it wasnt made to be played much but its good to see it running. anything I can see running with irrlicht is good.

thanks again

Midnight · Post by **Midnight** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 12:48 am

I was wondering if the scoreboard worked... I'll smoke ya.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 1:23 am

god, this game sucked.

Millers Drillers · Post by **Millers Drillers** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 1:24 am

^^^That was Millers Drillers^^^