game programming youtube video

game programming youtube video

Mike Farrell

Member #248

April 2000

I got a funny idea today to put together a blitz programming youtube video. Essentially I recorded myself putting together a little 2D game using allegro.

I had no idea what I was gonna do even as I was starting to code, nonetheless I ended up with something pretty funny.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1MvnsTlJ9E

StevenVI

Member #562

July 2000

You should have shown the game in action. And sped it up. I got impatient and skipped over many many minutes of it.

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Mike Farrell

Member #248

April 2000

its a real time video, so I didn't pause it at all except to split the parts. Part 2 shows the game, as does part 1.5 (stupid youtube cut the video off for part 1)

piccolo

Member #3,163

January 2003

try doing that for a mmrpg

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Neil Black

Member #7,867

October 2006

We'll leave that up to you, piccolo. But I won't guarantee we'll watch it.

Archon

Member #4,195

January 2004

Some issues with the video: I prefer to return negative numbers for failures (eg. set_gfx_mode), 0 for success and 1 for "the end result is the same, but it's not as you expected".

Fortunately you were smart and didn't show the results of compiling your code

piccolo

Member #3,163

January 2003

Quote:

Fortunately you were smart and didn't show the results of compiling your code

i think he did show it really quick one time in vid 1.5 then he showed a quick debug

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Vanneto

Member #8,643

May 2007

What IDE is you using?

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Mike Farrell

Member #248

April 2000

I actually don't bother with IDE's for small projects.

Its just a text editor - kwrite that I personally colored with dark blue settings cause its better on my eyes, and a linux commandline for compilation.

I show the game in its entirely several times in 1.5 and in 2 towards the end.

Slartibartfast

Member #8,789

June 2007

It was interesting and amusing to watch, good job.
It was also really funny to watch you make a mistake and then think "no no no! you should have done X" or "argh! the variable is named "dead" not "alive"!", and then watch you fix it
A couple of things that did bother me enough to post here are:
Doing random()/RAND_MAX (I remember you doing it in one point, not sure if you fixed it when I wasn't paying attention) is pointless. Since both should be integers it will always return 0.
Also, doing random()%something works, but is not that great of an idea as IIRC it will give you lower quality random numbers. (I admit it doesn't really matter for a game like this.)

Also, you fiddled with the background image way too much

And some random stuff I had to say:
The game is incomplete, but looks cool enough
For these kinds of games I usually make do with the primitives since I'm too lazy to draw stuff

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Mike Farrell

Member #248

April 2000

hah! you're right. I forgot to cast the divisor to float, thus all of them are moving at the same speed to the left.

oh well. i didn't realize that til you said something.

yea the bg image was pissing me off. I just gave up and put a simple blend.

Its clearly not finished but I got bored with it. You can go off infinitely in any direction but down. But its good enough for the vid

ixilom

Member #7,167

April 2006

Best of the video was the music

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Trezker

Member #1,739

December 2001

Damnit, you stole my idea!

Just a few weeks ago I thought it'd be cool to put a video like this on youtube. But I'm just not crazy enough to actually go through with it.

[My github]

Mark Oates

Member #1,146

March 2001

Cool. I want to see more videos like this from more people! (sped up of course)

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Vanneto

Member #8,643

May 2007

What be the filming appz for filming?

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ReyBrujo

Moderator

January 2001

This could be funny for SpeedHacks

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Mike Farrell

Member #248

April 2000

I used the only video capture program for linux that doesn't utterly dissapoint me: xvidcap

Jonny Cook

Member #4,055

November 2003

That's really cool. I like looking at peoples source code because it interests me to see the way people do things. This is even better! I get to see the thought process as well! More people should do this kind of thing, it's neat.

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kenmasters1976

Member #8,794

July 2007

That's cool!. It's hard to find anything Allegro-related on youtube so, Well Done!.

nonnus29

Member #2,606

August 2002