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Would a version of Snake be good for a first timer?

Discussion in 'Getting Started' started by RichAllen2023, Sep 13, 2016.

  1. RichAllen2023

    RichAllen2023

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    Topic.

    This thing we're doing at my Digital Arts course is our first foray into game making, and I'm thinking of doing a kind of Snake game (even though I'm actually terrified of Snakes in general! Tonight's episode of Neighbours was pretty darn scary!).

    Would this be simple enough?

    In that book I got from eBay last week there's a version of Asteroids called Captain Blaster which looks OK, but I'd like to try something a bit more advanced even though I'm a total coding novice, apart from a bit of experience in VB.
     
    RichAllen2023, Sep 13, 2016
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  2. JoeStrout

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    Snake is actually a little hard for someone new to programming. You need to keep an array of body segment positions, create/destroy segments on the fly, etc.

    It's not awful, but there are a lot of much simpler concepts out there — Angry Birds, Flappy Bird, Asteroids (as you said), etc. Don't scoff at something because it's simple — simple is what you should do for your first game. You can work up to more advanced stuff later.
     
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  3. Ryiah

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  4. Kiwasi

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    This. Snake is deceptively difficult. I wouldn't recommend it for a first project.

    Build flappy birds or space invaders first. Build snake second.
     
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  5. tedthebug

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    Yeah, I made a snake variant in Unity. I spent about a week nutting out how to do the movement so it looked smooth & turned a sharp 90°.

    Space invaders is easy, you can then expand & start using sin, cos & tan to get interesting enemy movement. You can even make the bases out of lots of little blocks & destroy them as they get shot so it looks like they are disintegrating.

    This is it if you wanted to check it out. It was a group project for a short course, I did the game stuff, someone else did the storing of the answers etc & showing the results & the other person did the entry screens. It was meant to be usable to teach kids their times tables.

    http://gamejolt.com/games/math-snake/182648
     
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  6. RichAllen2023

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    We started working on a Boulderdash clone this morning, should be ready to show y'all in a few weeks.
     
    RichAllen2023, Sep 15, 2016
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  7. tedthebug

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    Good luck. If you're allowed, share it in the design forum on the Feedback Friday thread (it will be stickied at the top).
     
    tedthebug, Sep 15, 2016
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