OpenEuphoria

Re: Games

• Posted by ChrisBurch3 <crylex at g?ail.co?> Nov 11, 2007
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Al Getz wrote:
> 
> don cole wrote:
> > 
> > ChrisBurch3 wrote:
> > > 
> > > don cole wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Al Getz wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > c.k.lester wrote:
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Al Getz wrote:
> > > > > > > It's interesting that this was brought up because i always wanted
> > > > > > > to
> > > > > > > write a good pinball game where the user could have much control
> > > > > > > over
> > > > > > > the play field environment
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Did you ever play EA's Pinball Construction Set? OMG that was fun.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > >     <a
> > > > > >     href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinball_Construction_Set">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinball_Construction_Set</a>
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > I also loved Racing Destruction Set.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Hi ck,
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > No, i never tried that and this is the first i've heard of it.
> > > > > Radio Shack had a cheap pinball game back in 1980 that allowed some
> > > > > changing of the field too.
> > > > > I got my idea after playing some of the cheaper regular pinball
> > > > > games and realized that it gets pretty boring after a fairly
> > > > > short time so i thought it would be cool if you could change
> > > > > the play table whenever you wanted to, and possibly have it
> > > > > set up random also.  I've played some really incredible pinball
> > > > > games with really really great animated graphics, but they all
> > > > > suffer from the same thing, and that's that they get a little
> > > > > boring after a while, and this seems to happen no matter how
> > > > > good they are.  The 'real' tables however i used to play for
> > > > > hours way back when.
> > > > > I ended up getting more involved in chess sometime after.
> > > > > I still think it would be interesting to have a pinball game
> > > > > programmed in Euphoria of course, that we all could mod to our
> > > > > own liking.
> > > > > I do have one program in the archive which is a 'little' like
> > > > > pinball, but it's not interactive.  A whole bunch of balls
> > > > > bounce around the screen and bounce into each other and off
> > > > > of the walls.  It's cool to watch the evolution of the patterns
> > > > > that come about from the random collisions.
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > Al
> > > > > 
> > > > > E boa sorte com sua programacao Euphoria!
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > My bumper sticker: "I brake for LED's"
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > >   While we are on games. I used to have a game called "Submarine
> > > >   Command". It
> > > > was made for the 
> > > > Atari 2600. 
> > > > I had an Atari 800XL computer which also had slot for games etc... My
> > > > cartige
> > > > had problems.
> > > > 
> > > > I've looked all over the internet for this game for the PC. A lot of
> > > > sites
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> > > > all around it 
> > > > but I can't find anywhere to download it. Free or otherwise.
> > > > Don Cole
> > > 
> > > Hi
> > > 
> > > Describe it, specify it, detail its goals and objectives, link to its
> > > graphics,
> > > then
> > > lets see who can reproduce it first 
> > > 
> > > Chris
> > 
> >    Well ... it has three views.
> > 
> > [1] map view (showing land and sea and other ships) if you go too close to
> > land
> > you run a muke)
> > 
> > [2] parascope view (as you would see the other ships through a parascope) Of
> > course if you go too low you can't see anything.
> > 
> > [3] sonar view (looking at other ships a seen in a radar screen).
> > 
> > 
> > also there is instrement view that is seen all the time.
> > 
> > showing:
> > [1] depth
> > [2] direction of travel
> > [3] speed of travel
> > [4] how long you have been out (there is no limit to this)
> > [5] amount of air, if air goes too low you must surface.
> > 
> >  You start out with so many torpedoes
> >   The object is too sink as much tonage as posible
> >   Also the other ships can drop depth charges You must drop low and shut off
> > all engines. 
> > After a while you must go topside to get more air and refresh the ballasts.
> > 
> > It's been awhile I don't remember every thing. Seems it would be a lot of
> > work
> > to write in Euphoria.
> > 
> > Don Cole
> 
> 
> Hi Don,
> 
> What kind of graphics are we talking here?  Really good views or
> just minimal views like rectangles for ships?
> 
> 
> Al
> 
> E boa sorte com sua programacao Euphoria!
> 
> 
> My bumper sticker: "I brake for LED's"
> 

Hi

Euphoria should be able to handle this quite nicely. Checking on the net, they
are fairly
minimal block graphics, with character displays, and the concept is a fairly
simple large repetitive loop with strategic elements within that (balancing
resources damage etc). You should be able to produce either a fairly accurate
reproduction, or enhance it with photos of ships and explosions seen through
the periscope.

euallegro, and eusdl, would be able to handle these quite nicely.

Tell you what Don, if your up for it, you create the graphics (some ships, a
series of explosion graphics,
and the large lettering / numbers - this will determine the overall look), 
I'll source some sub sounds (pings, explosions, white noise), 
and we'll put some code together.

Al, interested?

Chris