NEW PROJECT: Game Engine, Iteration 1.5

So I'm working on a new project, a new game engine!

I should really have done this sooner, when I've been working on projects I've been duplicating a lot of code from project to project, and recent projects have been fairly small and simple.

I'm mainly making the engine to learn from it, but also to make a few new games for my new site, when it's launched eventually and I have some content to actually add to it!

I'm very seriously applying the iterative approach to this project, each iteration will bring new features which work well, and do the job in the simplest manner I can think of, and the review what's done, and what needs to be done in the next iteration.

Stay Tuned for more updates!


Sprites used in this video can be found at:
OpenArt.moosader.com

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Game
• Engine
• Games
• Programming
• SDL
• C++
• Program

[Deeharok]

did you design this before hand and then wrote the code or just wrote the code?

[ProgrammerInProgress]

@Deeharok I did a bit of both with this project, I had a basic design in mind, did some UML and did a little bit, realised that the code was inadequate and wrote some more.

Interestingly enough, I've started a new project, and I'm being a lot more methodical this time round, I make use of design patterns and try and leave my designs open to change, I kinda of try and design things as interchangeable parts as opposed to one big set of classes these days,

Thank you for your question :)

[TheWickedPanda]

Why do you include the Tile.h twice in the same file?

[ProgrammerInProgress]

@TheWickedPanda I never even noticed, it wasn't intentional if I did that.

[joeymjones]

great work, man! I've had a strong interest in game development for a couple years now. i'm currently trying to move from python to c++ and i'm teaching myself SDL and later on, opengl or even direct3d. i don't know if you are still developing this map edor/game, but maybe a suggestioni think would be awesome to see, is network support. where you can run 2 users on seperate computers editing the map at the same time. just a thought... good luck with your game and good luck with college!!

[ProgrammerInProgress]

@joeymjones Thank-you! for the interesting feeback!

I like to experiment from time to time, this was one of my little test tube projects, I would like to go back to it again in the near future, maybe when I have some time between uni and other projects, it's all about time management! :P

Once again, thank you for the kind comments.

Mike

[WreckSector]

Hehe I recognize that zombie. Good luck!

[Samzsite]

@ProgrammerInProgress Yeah on here you sounded a bit yorkshire but another you sounded slightly irish. Regardless, good work!

[ProgrammerInProgress]

@Samzsite oh no, I'm not from Yorkshire, but I am from the North.

I have an accent that doesn't really match where I'm from, I have what I guess you could call an "almost neutral accent"

[Samzsite]

Nice, you from yorkshire? Sound like it, if so, where abouts? ;D