What game to create first...

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 1:06 am

What would be the best all around game to make, to learn Irrlicht, in your humble opinions?

Sorry if this is a stupid question, but search doesn't work too well.

condrula · Post by **condrula** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 1:08 am

half life 2 of course!!!!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 1:09 am

What a quick and useless response

Although it was funny

spongebob · Post by **spongebob** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 1:11 am

I suggest you of course to make Doom4.

Then make something more difficult like a simple shooter.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 1:12 am

C'mon guys, serious responses please... I don't think my question was that stupid that you have to be sarcastic.

Gav(at uni) · Post by **Gav(at uni)** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 4:28 am

make something like pong

stick to only motion in 2 dimensions (can still use 3d objects etc.) and keep it simple!

Peter Müller · Post by **Peter Müller** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 6:59 am

Gav(at uni) wrote:make something like pong

stick to only motion in 2 dimensions (can still use 3d objects etc.) and keep it simple!

Yes, pong 3d with bump mapping, real time shadows, volumentric smoke, real time phisics and many splatter effects...

insolence · Post by **insolence** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 10:12 am

Thank you very much

I'll make a very simple one, then gradually get more complicated and add more types of play.

Thank you

darkliquid · Post by **darkliquid** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 10:24 am

Simple variants on tilebased games are the way to go. personally, I'm making a clone of Mr. Driller, more so for developing my algorithm skills than developing experience with Irrlicht, but tieing Irrlicht into my algorithms will be fun, I smell custom scene nodes....

Anyway, good luck with whatever you try to do!

saigumi · Post by **saigumi** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 12:41 pm

A few months ago, I re-started trying to think of how to design games.

I started with pong, than did a gunner game (a turret on the ground shoots up at people jumping out of planes, not an FPS), then did a short tank war game, kind of like the gorilla.bas or Scorched earth.

I tried to perform everything as simple as possible.

I'm now making an object oriented boids simulation.

insolence · Post by **insolence** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 5:24 pm

Nice

I'll just have to read up on all of this terminology(sp) and pong should be a simple task.

Midnight · Post by **Midnight** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 5:27 pm

Gotta love the twits that use a 3D engine for 2D games...

LMFAO @ spongbob

saigumi · Post by **saigumi** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 5:34 pm

Irrlicht isn't just a 3D engine...

http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/tut006.html

It's nice to be able to use 3D functions to modify 2D images for things like scaling, rotating, etc... This was one of the nicer parts of D3DX.

Plus, Serg's 2D helper for Irrlicht is awesome.

http://www.dev.your3dgames.com/

insolence · Post by **insolence** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 6:11 pm

Thanks for those links, btw

Romul · Post by **Romul** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 8:35 pm

Well, im making a Battlezone style game for my first with IrrLicht. The reason being for me its easier.
I just need basic terrain then (barely animated) tanks and buildings. (probably newton later) I think the biggest advantage ive got is I know how to throw matrices around.
Then once ive got moving tanks on terrain I can get on with what im really interested in. Game dynamics, AI and random generation, (yay!)

Obviously, I want to make Dungeon Siege III but its not on the cards is it now?
BTW: Ive only been coding in C++ for like a few months

ive been using Genesis3D but im a traitor. Now im using IrrLicht.

-Romul