Mutual attraction
Plenty of visitors to my site from AVRFreaks since I put up the link to my DB101 board review a few days ago – well more than usual anyway, with an average of about 40 unique users each day visiting some portion of my site. Actually, I’m quite frankly surprised that there hasn’t been much discussion of the DB101 board online, sans for a few posts in a single AVRFreaks thread. I hope that will increase once others start getting the boards into their sweaty palms, as it really is a great board.
A few days ago I posted my space game to a discussion board about an old game (now free and open source) called Star Control, from which I “borrowed” the basics of the gameplay from. The response was a little less interested that I had hoped for – and in several cases, downright hostile – but I’m continuing with it regardless. To make it more interesting I’ve just finished adding planets with gravity and collisions.
Also new is the playfield scaling, where in the graphics mode the arbitrarily sized playing field can be scaled to fit the chosen size of the applet. Both of these features are visible in the below screenshot:
A zip archive with the current game source is available for download here in case anyone wants a gander at it. It’s unfinished and my first working game, so go gentile with the criticism! Actually, I wouldn’t mind chatting with someone experienced with this sort of thing, so I can get some ideas on how to structure the game. While this is really just an exercise I want to do for myself, I’m nevertheless interested in knowing how the “real” games work under the hood.
