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#1 nitrogenfingers

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Posted 12 February 2013 - 07:19 PM

I've been playing with gameutils a lot recently, seeing what I can do with it and trying to push it to it's limits. The thing I love most about it is how much work it saves me, making my core programs easier to write and faster.

This is a bit of a demonstration of the capabilities of this engine, inspired by a few other isometric racers like Night Driver and Enduro for the 2600, or some of the old Test Drive games, if you're old enough to remember any of them.

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This screenshot is a little outdated, the striped lines (which were a standard for most racers of the time) were added to help produce a sensation of motion, however this was adaquetely done by road lines so it has been removed. It's not got much game play yet but here are the basics:

Up/Down: Acceleration and brakes
Left/Right: Turn car
Q: Quit

The game itself is somewhat interesting but I find the project specs themselves more interesting. The artwork took me about an hour to mock up, and the source code took about 2 hours. It has 12 image files total (one of them since made redundant), and the source code is about 120 lines long, most of that either managing game logic or calling commands from gameutils. Compressed, it's about 8kb all up.

I don't know what I'll do with this. If it's considered "interesting" here on the forums I'll add a few more elements, like scaling traffic, a day/night cycle (which will allow me to demonstrate the "repaint" feature), and a more definite goal. But for the moment, it's just a sort demo.

Oh, you can download it from here: http://www.mediafire...nxie0b0clrg0cy4 . If clicking the link doesn't work, try pasting it into the URL field of your web browser.
Alternatively, you may use the installer NDF Jay was kind enough to host: http://pastebin.com/fYrJd1G2

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Posted 12 February 2013 - 07:23 PM

Cool! But I would like a pastebin link too, with an installer or something.

#3 nitrogenfingers

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Posted 12 February 2013 - 07:26 PM

I'm working on some sort of project management system at the moment, but realistically that's 14 pastebin uploads, which I don't want to do right now. Just play in SSP, you sort of need to anyway.

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Posted 12 February 2013 - 09:34 PM

View PostShnupbups100, on 12 February 2013 - 07:23 PM, said:

Cool! But I would like a pastebin link too, with an installer or something.

I took the liberty of making an installer for you

http://pastebin.com/fYrJd1G2

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Posted 12 February 2013 - 11:01 PM

View PostNDFJay, on 12 February 2013 - 09:34 PM, said:

View PostShnupbups100, on 12 February 2013 - 07:23 PM, said:

Cool! But I would like a pastebin link too, with an installer or something.

I took the liberty of making an installer for you

http://pastebin.com/fYrJd1G2

D: You're alive! :P When's NDF-UI coming out?

On-topic: Epic game nitrogen! Truly brilliant program once again!

#6 nitrogenfingers

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Posted 13 February 2013 - 02:44 AM

View PostNDFJay, on 12 February 2013 - 09:34 PM, said:

View PostShnupbups100, on 12 February 2013 - 07:23 PM, said:

Cool! But I would like a pastebin link too, with an installer or something.

I took the liberty of making an installer for you

http://pastebin.com/fYrJd1G2

Much obliged NDF Jay!

Just had a play with the installer. You and I, we need to do more work together :)

Edited by nitrogenfingers, 13 February 2013 - 02:53 AM.


#7 Kingdaro

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Posted 13 February 2013 - 03:23 AM

The installer doesn't work in any directory other than the root directory.

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Posted 13 February 2013 - 08:31 AM

View PostGravityScore, on 12 February 2013 - 11:01 PM, said:

View PostNDFJay, on 12 February 2013 - 09:34 PM, said:

View PostShnupbups100, on 12 February 2013 - 07:23 PM, said:

Cool! But I would like a pastebin link too, with an installer or something.

I took the liberty of making an installer for you

http://pastebin.com/fYrJd1G2

D: You're alive! :P When's NDF-UI coming out?

On-topic: Epic game nitrogen! Truly brilliant program once again!
NDF r u back? u kinda dropped off the face of the forums after the NDF os fiasco

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Posted 13 February 2013 - 08:45 AM

View PostGravityScore, on 12 February 2013 - 11:01 PM, said:


D: You're alive! :P When's NDF-UI coming out?


I am alive :D my laptop killed its self, just got a replacement so started coding the UI again, started on a boot loader for custom multi-os support :)

View Postnitrogenfingers, on 13 February 2013 - 02:44 AM, said:


Much obliged NDF Jay!

Just had a play with the installer. You and I, we need to do more work together :)

yeah the installer was a quick write up, left a lot to be updated lol but it does the job :) let me know when your free

View PostSkullblade, on 13 February 2013 - 08:31 AM, said:


NDF r u back? u kinda dropped off the face of the forums after the NDF os fiasco
yeah sorry about that, im back now :) and ready for action

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Posted 13 February 2013 - 08:53 AM

View PostNDFJay, on 13 February 2013 - 08:45 AM, said:

-snip-

View PostSkullblade, on 13 February 2013 - 08:31 AM, said:

NDF r u back? u kinda dropped off the face of the forums after the NDF os fiasco
yeah sorry about that, im back now :) and ready for action
great to see that you didn't give up on us (i thought u did) after your prob, cant wait to see how NDF UI turns out

Also nitro another great game :D

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Posted 13 February 2013 - 09:24 AM

View PostSkullblade, on 13 February 2013 - 08:53 AM, said:

great to see that you didn't give up on us (i thought u did) after your prob, cant wait to see how NDF UI turns out

i'd never give up on this community :) and thanks :)

#12 ETHANATOR360

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Posted 19 February 2013 - 03:53 PM

+1 for making a 3D game that looks great

#13 AnthonyD98™

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Posted 19 February 2013 - 04:55 PM

I haven't tried it yet but this looks great. Nice work!

#14 TheOddByte

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Posted 25 February 2013 - 03:52 AM

Looks nice!
Reminds me of some games to SEGA.. (No I'm not old just that I played SEGA games when I was like 4-8 since my brother had one.. SEGA games is fun =) )

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Posted 14 April 2013 - 06:14 AM

Please Can I Include It In CraftdowsOS

#16 Kingdaro

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Posted 14 April 2013 - 06:44 AM

View Postrhysjack7, on 14 April 2013 - 06:14 AM, said:

Please Can I Include It In CraftdowsOS
It's a nice little program, but I wouldn't include something that's imcomplete/a demo in an OS.

#17 wilcomega

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Posted 14 April 2013 - 09:46 AM

awesome 3d effects, maybe you could make this a 3d engine

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Posted 15 April 2013 - 03:51 AM

This is awesome.

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Posted 15 April 2013 - 05:20 PM

Nice work nitrogenfingers on the 3-D program really like everything you have there





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