notes:comporg:spring2024:projects:mpg0
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| ====Game loop==== | ====Game loop==== | ||
| + | For this project, you will be making a Snake game. | ||
| + | The game loop for Snake is simple: you will control a snake around the screen to eat pieces of food. Once a piece of food has been eaten, your score will increase, and the snake will get longer. | ||
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| + | The game ends when the head of the snake runs into either a wall, or another part of its body. | ||
| ====Sprites==== | ====Sprites==== | ||
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| * R = W | * R = W | ||
| * Start = Enter Key | * Start = Enter Key | ||
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| + | ==Using controller== | ||
| + | For those out there who want the whole experience of gaming, therein lies the ability to plug in a real video game controller, if your system allows (some laptops will at least). To that end, the controls are pretty straight-forward. Either console controller will rely upon the D-pad for movement, and the buttons should map to the controllers as well. For example, ' | ||
| ==Arrow Key Setup== | ==Arrow Key Setup== | ||
| - | If you ar just trying to make the input based off of your arrow keys you can simply copy the same setup: | + | If you are just trying to make the input based off of your arrow keys, you can simply copy the same setup: |
| <code C> | <code C> | ||
| // Buttons to move up, down, left, and right | // Buttons to move up, down, left, and right | ||
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| </ | </ | ||
| - | NOTE: Youll want to do this in your game loop (the while loop) and make sure inside of main but outside of you game loop have the following: | + | NOTE: You' |
| <code C> | <code C> | ||
| // Selects keyboard as gamepad to use for input | // Selects keyboard as gamepad to use for input | ||
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| <code bash> | <code bash> | ||
| if( var == 1 ) { | if( var == 1 ) { | ||
| - | Snake.X -= PlayerSpeed; | + | Snake[0].X -= PlayerSpeed; |
| } | } | ||
| </ | </ | ||
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| The screen on vircon32 is 640 by 360, however, you do not have to type these out every time you make a game in vircon32 as they are stored in the screen_width and screen_height variables respectively. One way of bounds checking is to see where you are about to spawn the snake' | The screen on vircon32 is 640 by 360, however, you do not have to type these out every time you make a game in vircon32 as they are stored in the screen_width and screen_height variables respectively. One way of bounds checking is to see where you are about to spawn the snake' | ||
| ====Handling motion==== | ====Handling motion==== | ||
| + | To handle motion you could do: | ||
| + | <code c> | ||
| + | int SnakeX; | ||
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| + | if( Right) | ||
| + | { | ||
| + | |||
| + | SnakeX = SnakeX + 20; | ||
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| + | |||
| + | } | ||
| + | </ | ||
| ====Score Display==== | ====Score Display==== | ||
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