WILL's Artillery Game Tutorial

[paul_nicholls]

Part 3 is just about done now.

I've gotten all the code and the write-up done. I just have to run it by my small team of proof-readers and check to make sure that I haven't missed anything.

Should have it published sometime this weekend. Maybe tomorrow...

Thanks again for all the feedback, it really helps! :thumbup:

Great tutorials Will!
I love these sort of games :-)

I have been fiddling with the code so it works for 320x240 mode so I can get it ready to run on the GP2X (hopefully) :-)

If it helps, you can download one of the first artillery games for the PC: Tank Wars by Kenny Morse (1990, 1991?).

http://www.flashback-aw.net/files/t/tank_wars.zip

I used to play this heaps :-)

Scorched Earth was inspired from this game...

It requires dosbox, the dos emulator program to run properly on modern systems.

cheers,
Paul.

[WILL]

Hey cool!

Send me some pics of it working on an actual GP2X if you can get it working.

I'll probably end up making a list of artillery games down the road.

Sascha Willems sent me a link to a pretty cool tutorial on how to make a Worms-like battlefield. It's a bit off from the direction that I'm going, but it is pretty interesting how he does it.

KTB Tutorial 1: 2d randomly generated terrain for Worms style game

[size=9px]WARNING: It's also a bit more advanced than I go in my tutorial series too.[/size]

[WILL]

Part 3 is now released!

Might take a little more time before I do Part 4, but it's coming next.

Part 3 - Placing The Tanks

[jdarling]

Looking good WILL. Can't wait till you can actually do something

[WILL]

Thanks. That'll be the next one.

It might be a bit big so I'm taking my time with it.

I've gotta get out my old CS papers from highschool too. Though I can't believe that I actually kept them.

Basically you're looking at a mini trig. lesson, a tiny bit of faked physics and a primer on look-up tables.

[paul_nicholls]

Part 3 is now released!

Might take a little more time before I do Part 4, but it's coming next.

Part 3 - Placing The Tanks

Looks great so far chief!
cheers,
Paul.

[paul_nicholls]

Part 3 is now released!

Might take a little more time before I do Part 4, but it's coming next.

Part 3 - Placing The Tanks

Bump :-)

Hi Will, I'm curious as to whether you had done part 4 of your artillery tanks tutorial?

I remembered about your tutorials after playing worms today on my GP2X GBA emulator and thought I'd ask

cheers,
Paul

[WILL]

Hey Paul. Thanks for the renewed interest in my tutorial series. I was actually inspired to work on it a little bit last weekend.

Can't say exactly when I'll be done, but it should be almost double the size of the last one. I'm about 3/4 of the way through it, but thats before adding in illustrations and proof-reading.

For those that have followed the series it covers the aiming and firing of shots in the game. After reading you should almost be able to make a full game from it.

[paul_nicholls]

Excellent! Keep up the great work Will

cheers,
Paul

[WILL]

Well I've just finished the tutorial today at about 9 pages.

I have to add illustrations and have it proof-read, but for all other considerations it's completed. Check back for it in about a week or so.