PGDmC: 2-bit Racer

[czar]

I don't see a link. You mention an FTP site but where do I find that?

[Ingemar]

I don't see a link. You mention an FTP site but where do I find that?

That was to the competition FTP site, but I also uploaded it here:

http://www.ragnemalm.se/lightweight/...submission.zip

[Ingemar]

A little project summary:

- Writing games in FPC is great fun, and can be done quite efficiently if you are focused.
- Use the modern features of FPC to your advantage! We have the best programming language but only if we use it properly.
- Game physics is hard. If you try faking it, the shortcuts get highly noticable.
- Game AI can be tricky too. It can often be hacked, but then it gets pretty dumb.
- 3D requires a lot of tools, but once you have a decent set of tools (3D modeler like Wings 3D or Blender, paint program like Pixelmator, model loading code, texture loading, linear algebra code, collision detection) then 3D is managable.
- One reason for me to write this was to make a project like the ones my students do. I don't want to get stuck teaching but never doing, only telling people to do fun things but never doing them myself. You always learn by doing.
- Trenkti y g??rble!

[Ingemar]

A little project summary:

- Writing games in FPC is great fun, and can be done quite efficiently if you are focused.
- Use the modern features of FPC to your advantage! We have the best programming language but only if we use it properly.
- Game physics is hard. If you try faking it, the shortcuts get highly noticable.
- Game AI can be tricky too. It can often be hacked, but then it gets pretty dumb.
- 3D requires a lot of tools, but once you have a decent set of tools (3D modeler like Wings 3D or Blender, paint program like Pixelmator, model loading code, texture loading, linear algebra code, collision detection) then 3D is managable.
- One reason for me to write this was to make a project like the ones my students do. I don't want to get stuck teaching but never doing, only telling people to do fun things but never doing them myself. You always learn by doing.
- Trenkti y g??rble!

Oh yes, two more conclusions:
- I got up to speed with Wings3D again and learned how to do texture mapping with it (which wasn't supported in the past).
- I learned about Cfxr, nice little utility.

[Traveler]

Sadly I cant play your game either. I wanted to make it a point to try and play the games you all made, but in this case I cant. Perhaps you or someone else is able to create a video so we can at least see your game in action?

[Ingemar]

Sadly I cant play your game either. I wanted to make it a point to try and play the games you all made, but in this case I cant. Perhaps you or someone else is able to create a video so we can at least see your game in action?

I'll try to make a video. However, it should be piece of cake to port it to Linux or Window with a computer with FPC installed. I might do that myself, but there is a startup time on that for me. (And I am also a bit busy trying to add the music.)

[Ingemar]

Now with music: http://www.ragnemalm.se/lightweight/...with-music.zip

and a video: http://www.ragnemalm.se/lightweight/twobitclip.mov
(A bit weak sound, short part of a race.)