benjamin805
Jun 21, 2010
Ben Jimenez
I want to share a program I am working on, I would like to post information about it here.
I am developing a small game, simple design, but since I need more programming experience anything I develop just helps give me more skill in my favorite past time. Ok, so I'm developing this game I call Color Match (the name for now, may change later). All you have to do in this game is match up 3 or more of the same color to earn points. Sounds easy huh, the catch is that the game board consist of 5 rings of colored circles that can be turned independently of each other. So instead of swapping two game pieces like in most other matching games this game requires that you rotate the rings in order to match up colors. As you progress through each level, the difficulty of the game increases as the game adds more colors to the game board. After a few levels it becomes more difficult to match up colors. You may notice that any color circles on the outer most rings will fall inward as you match up colors of the inner rings. This is by design. I thought it would make it more fun. I hope some find this game amusing and offer up some thoughts about how I may improve this game.
What I'm working on for the final release of this game.
Animation of the rotation of the rings, and animation of the movement of the colored circles when they fall inward toward the inner ring. I also want to take some time and develop some nice graphics and maybe a nice background or two. Midi music may be added, but I don't want to bog down the game so I might opt out of that idea. I am working on a prototype for the XBOX Indie game developers market place. This means I'm gonna have to re program this game inC++, C#, but it should not be too much of a challenge since this game is basic in design. I can see the final game in my head and when everything is in place I will release it on every platform I can find time to program it for.
Please post any comments or suggestions here. http://basic.wikispaces.com/message/list/Ben+Jimenez
Here is a DirectX version of the game. (see screen shot below)
I want to share a program I am working on, I would like to post information about it here.
I am developing a small game, simple design, but since I need more programming experience anything I develop just helps give me more skill in my favorite past time. Ok, so I'm developing this game I call Color Match (the name for now, may change later). All you have to do in this game is match up 3 or more of the same color to earn points. Sounds easy huh, the catch is that the game board consist of 5 rings of colored circles that can be turned independently of each other. So instead of swapping two game pieces like in most other matching games this game requires that you rotate the rings in order to match up colors. As you progress through each level, the difficulty of the game increases as the game adds more colors to the game board. After a few levels it becomes more difficult to match up colors. You may notice that any color circles on the outer most rings will fall inward as you match up colors of the inner rings. This is by design. I thought it would make it more fun. I hope some find this game amusing and offer up some thoughts about how I may improve this game.
What I'm working on for the final release of this game.
Animation of the rotation of the rings, and animation of the movement of the colored circles when they fall inward toward the inner ring. I also want to take some time and develop some nice graphics and maybe a nice background or two. Midi music may be added, but I don't want to bog down the game so I might opt out of that idea. I am working on a prototype for the XBOX Indie game developers market place. This means I'm gonna have to re program this game in
Please post any comments or suggestions here. http://basic.wikispaces.com/message/list/Ben+Jimenez
Here is a DirectX version of the game. (see screen shot below)