I totally agree with this, I think a project like this would be a great asset. Thanks. shane -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 4:20 PM To: gamers@audyssey.org Subject: [Audyssey] Game programming education project.
Hi all, In the interest of everyone who wants to begin learning how to program accessible games I will be launching the USA Games game programming education project. What I plan to do is write an accessible version of Asteroids complete with saving and restoring games, standard and arcade style play, sound, music, etc... Once written I will be able to post the full source code and release versions for download. The source version will eventually include documentation explaining the audio class and it's use with Microsoft DirectSound. Another tutorial might cover working with Visual Studio Express 2005, and another might discuss saving and restoring games, etc. I don't plan for all of this suddenly to appear, of course, but if I put some time to it each week those of you out there will not only have a free game, but one with a full source written in C#.NET which will give you something to look at and to practice your programming skills with. The main reason I have decided to do this is I would like the community at large to have not only accessible games, but high quality accessible games. Most new programmers don't know how to do that. For instance, most programming books won't tell you how to save and restore a game, and you have to compile the information from two or more sources, and understand serializing an object. With a sample right in front of you it becomes pretty clear how it is done without all the explanations how it works just that it does work. Which is what we all want. Not only that there is always some trig equations needed to calculate the distance between objects, directions, and updating there location. Well, naturally I will be including them, and I will keep things at the Algebra/Trig level and won't put to much on you newbies by making everything 3D with vectors, and all that. Anyway, if you guys think this will help the community add new programmers to the rank, and help you guys learn I will be happy to donate time in the future to this end ever. Smile. _______________________________________________ Gamers mailing list .. Gamers@audyssey.org To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web. _______________________________________________ Gamers mailing list .. Gamers@audyssey.org To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web.
