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Published on 15-09-2010 06:26 AM
Introduction
Welcome to the first in a series of tutorials that I hope will help new developers and fans of the genre. When I first started to learn about computers and even before I got serious about programming, one of the first PC games I ever owned was a shareware game called 'Scorched Earth'. It was a cleverly designed game where you were in a tank against up to 9 other tanks on a landscaped 2D screen, and the main idea was to try to destroy all of them and be the last one standing to win the round. Do this for a chosen number of rounds and whoever has the highest score at the end, wins the game.
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