This seems too empty so...

My Deluxe Pacman 2 game (Allegro 5 + MinGW) was just updated with the newest Allegro 5 build (thanks Edgar) and is available along with older versions here for free, if you're curious. No strings attached, I mainly made it for my wife years ago.

http://home.cogeco.ca/~nroy15/games_index.html

Gameplay video...

Note: the above video was recorded with NVidia's Share (ALT+Z to bring up the interface), for anyone curious.

Thanks. It's been fun to work on. Did you like my Bible in there?

Yeah, you just needed to read the HELP section, it describes all of them... well... except the skull, it just says "Guess" beside it.

The reason why I threw the skull in there was because I figured with the question mark tool, which gives you one of the tools at random, I figured there needed to be some risk grabbing it. So one of the tools there is a risk of getting is the skull.

Have you tried the level editor yet? It's in there too and very simple to use, you just pick a line set and draw (left mouse button held down and drag).

I wonder if I could make a Javascript version of this? I only played around with Javascript a little one day when I follow3ed a Youtube tutorial on it.

The tutorial I already followed (and programmed myself while watching it) used canvas where he had you make a simple JS game, whack-a-mole. I did like how programming with canvas worked.

I'm mainly a C programmer (not C++, I do pure C, with a C compiler) and have always loved it. My games are all in pure C. I usually program with the 2011 C standard, which is what I did with this, though I don't think I used any 2011 specific code (using commandline "-std=gnu11" which is the 2011 C standard with gnu extensions). I am not a fan of classes, I actually enjoy seeing if I can do stuff in C that is similar to C++. I liked C++ vectors for example, and I wanted a stack style function (you know, with PUSHing and PULLing to and from the stack), so I wrote my own in C (I used it in DP2). Worked well and I was surprised at how easy it was to implement, so long as you're comfortable with pointers and allocating memory, which seems to frighten C++ programmers to no end, .

An afternoon, just a few hours maybe? I attached a Code::Blocks project I created at the time to test it out as I created it, it has the source etc... if you're curious. I modified this and simplified it for my game, but this is essentially what I use in my game.

I did get some help understanding certain aspects in these forums, so it may have been a day or two, but total time wasn't that much and I probably spent more of that time implementing it in my game, as I had to rewrite large portions of my code to accommodate this new way to do things.

The second level was one of those levels I specifically designed to be cleared a certain way. You do each corner in order. Eat a power pill, clear the ghost spawn area and dead end while they are blue. Then move to the next corner, eat a powerpill... repeat for each corner and it is easy. Pickups/powerups and blue ghosts are mostly a distraction that will kill you if you chase after those points rather than clear the level.

With that said, I suck at my own game as well!

For a challenge, play it on hard, the Ghost AI on hard is TOTALLY different. I programmed HARD mode so the ghosts actually act much like the arcade game's ghosts. There no randomness to them at all on that mode, but they all behave a certain way (based on the original arcade behaviour, which I researched). It may even be easier for some people once you understand how each ghost moves. Red will always chase you down on hard, other ghosts will come so close to you, then move away, some will try and get ahead of you and intercept you etc... it was fun to code anyhow. Also remember to press CTRL to move faster (uses the orange energy bar up). It can be handy to get out of sticky situations.

Lately I have been thinking of maybe doing an isometric Berzerk style game, but with some new twists. Not sure, my creativity seems to be wasting away these days.

Deluxe Pacman 1 = Allegro 4 (started out as an Allegro 3 game on DOS).
Deluxe Pacman 2 = Allegro 5 (current version)

Both are as complete as they will ever be.

I do have several other games I made with Allegro, but none of them are quite completed. My first Allegro game ever was "Deluxe Artillery Duel". It is playable and almost complete. I wanted to add more to it and the AI isn't the best. Two player mode is complete. You can play against teh computer, but the CPU plays a bad game, getting the AI right is a real challenge. I never did complete it, though I thought about resurrecting it and trying again as I was proud of how it turned out.

I also have a Tetris style game I made (called "Bloc!" because I suck at game titles too), with a twist. As you form each line, you reveal a little more of a picture in the background. The game being complete when you reveal the entire picture. It is playable, but doesn't have a scoring system in place.

And probably a dozen more half-done games I should probably pick one and finish one of these days. My Speedhack entry is complete too (Apollo 29)!

I have some non-Allegro 3D stuff I keep playing with, but don't know what to make with them. One is a 3D terrain program made mainly just with Windows code (winmain et all) and OpenGL. I'm a master of unfinished games!

That would be awesome, not sure where I would put it in my tiny apartment though. But I love the idea.

Maybe just make the frame for the screen and the joystick area, and wall mount it.

edit: I just saw this while watching Eric's video.

Really nice game (a bit hard for me ^^) , well polished, I love the editor too, very smart and user friendly.