Re: Game Idea

["Rob Quill" <quills@madasafish.com>]

Hi,

I am willing to help, my name is Rob Quill, I am 15 and have done C stuff,
without graphics,sound etc and have started on C++. I do not really like
Visual stuff though. I am curently working on a text-based game. I have done
basic i/o, writing/reading from files etc.

Cya,
Rob.
----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Hope <phope@mcmail.com>
To: <gameprogrammer@gameprogrammer.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2001 9:13 AM
Subject: Re: Game Idea


> I have a good idea everybody who can or wants to contribute to developing
a
> game with this group, please give your name, age, and what sort of things
> you have experience in and then maybe we can organise this group and get
> some work flowing.  We could then put groups of people together working on
> key modules ie: graphics, sound, i/o, story, OS.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brian Holley" <comp_brain@hotmail.com>
> To: <gameprogrammer@gameprogrammer.com>
> Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2001 6:27 AM
> Subject: Game Idea
>
>
> > Hey people-
> >
> > Dang, forget to check email for 1 day and I have 30 or so messages...
> geez.
> >
> > Anyway, I like the idea of working cooperatively on a demo, simple game.
> > I would really like to see this become a success.  I hope that this
> project
> > can begin and end better than the AVGI (A very good idea) project did.
> That
> > might have been before some of you joined this list, but I digress.
> >
> > Anyway, writing a simple game isn't that hard.  On my webpage I have
some
> > demo programs that I wrote doing just that in DirectX.  One is a 2D RPG
> > style world demo, another is an Atari style side scrolling shooter.
Both
> > can be obtained here: http://vidgamez.iwarp.com/gameprog.html
> >
> > As for my position on OpenGL/DirectX... I have worked with both
relatively
> > extensively, and you really can't compare them for what we would be
doing.
> > OpenGL is needlessly complex if all you're doing is 2D graphics.
DirectX
> > does have a 2D API, but is only useful to those with Windows.  Since
this
> > project would be a 2D project (hopefully), we SHOULD NOT use OpenGL.
> > Neither should we use DirectDraw, because many people don't have
Windows.
> >
> > I would suggest, instead, that we use DJGPP with the Allegro library.  I
> > personally haven't worked a lot with it, but I've seen simple demos and
I
> > know it can be great.  I believe it is also a cross platform API...
> Anyway,
> > DJGPP and Allegro can both be obtained free (they are freeware) at
> > http://www.delorie.com/djgpp
> >
> > I will keep up to date on this project and would like to help as much as
> my
> > limited schedule will allow.
> >
> > Please excuse the length of this email, but I had alot to say in one
> email.
> > Thanks,
> > -Brian
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