how i start a game

["Derold Clifford" <f_sister@hotmail.com>]

Title: Clear Day

Personally the way I start a game is to break it down into sections

type: action

 adventure

 rpg

 learning

 ect.

second I decide/determin what kind of world it will be taking place in

playfeild: boxed

 scrolling

 3D

 2D layerd

 rapped

after that I consentrate on actual programming starting with input

    How are players going to interact with this game.  I would recommend you at least put in keyboard suport for the first stages, it can allways be taken out when it is ported.   Meese, joy pad/stick and dedicated devices can be added and tested later butt keep them in mind.

    Set up the playing field, make a map(s) of all the static objects.  Create the graphic reps for said objects and display them.

    set up the action objects, make the rules they follow.  What do they react to and how?  Reachion objects.  What acts on them and what happens to it when it does?(player controlled objects fit in this catagory)

    Once the graphics are in place you'll want sound, there's only 2 sound areas I concern myself

 background

 reaction

 

    Background sound, if possible, I send to the card and loop it.

    reaction sounds I tie into the graphic reactions (arrows launch and striking home, ax hitting a tree, ect.)

 

I know the abbove leaves a lottttttttttttttttttt to be desired in axual programming, but no project is to big if you break it into enough parts.

 

thanks and don't worry about correcting my spelling

PS others may do it differently

 

 

 

Derold Clifford
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