Forum :: Lounge :: My First Allegro Game (Pong/Snake)

Yesterday I decided to learn how to use the Allegro library because everyone else is making cool games and things. Today I decided to make a pong game because its a simple game. What I ended up doing was making a snake game (also simple), so the .exe is named pong but it is actually snake!

Move using the arrow keys, pause using 'p', quit by losing, clicking the X or hitting 'esc'.

For some reason it won't let me run it without the .dll in the same directory, I figure there's a way around this but I'm not sure how to do it. It was created on a windows 7 64-bit machine in Visual Studio 2010.

As of right now it just does all text output to std::cout, I'm too tired to teach myself how to put text on the screen tonight :P

As for graphics, it uses no external files; all (3) bitmaps are generated internally. In case you're wondering why its such a boring screen.

I'd like comments and stuff. Things I should add/try to add, etc. I'm looking to challenge myself and learn something. I'm going to try and attempt pong/breakout later on this week in my free time and slowly add concepts from there. I know that putting the text on the actual screen instead ofcommand prompt is next on my list :D

Download: http://ethanmoffat.web44.net/download/snake-release.rar
Newer: http://ethanmoffat.web44.net/download/snake-release-2.rar
Screenie:

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Statically link to get it to work without a dll.

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Its good :D but how come the foods arnt randomly positioned? 

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I don't think visual studio will let me statically link it..oh well. 

Foods are randomly positioned, there's a random function that generates their location.

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class EOSERV {
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Open source EO Client: https://github.com/ethanmoffat/EndlessClient
};

ethanmoffat posted: (12th Jul 2011 08:03 pm)

I don't think visual studio will let me statically link it..oh well. 

Foods are randomly positioned, there's a random function that generates their location.

Visual studios? Noob, just use codeblocks :P

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Addison posted: (12th Jul 2011 08:19 pm)

ethanmoffat posted: (12th Jul 2011 08:03 pm)

I don't think visual studio will let me statically link it..oh well. 

Foods are randomly positioned, there's a random function that generates their location.

Visual studios? Noob, just use codeblocks :P

I like IntelliSense! And the debugger :P

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class EOSERV {
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};

ethanmoffat posted: (12th Jul 2011 08:03 pm)

I don't think visual studio will let me statically link it..oh well. 

Foods are randomly positioned, there's a random function that generates their location.

O.O their in the same spot everytime i play :O takes the fun out of it cuz i no where their going.

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Oh yeah. Of course you can statically link.

Select:

• Windows, Visual Studio 2008 and Allegro 5
• Windows, Visual Studio 2010 and Allegro 5

Select whichever one applies to you.


Anyways, finally tried out your game. Outputting text isn't hard, except loading the font sucks. You can either put a .ttf font with the file, or make a bitmap font. (I prefer ttf, but for a small game, just building in the bitmap font won't hurt)

Why not make a menu instead of the 5 second countdown. I thought it was broken but then I noticed the countdown :P

Wildsurvival: It randomizes the food for me. It could be his code(unlikely), or something with your OS. Not sure.

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Addison posted: (13th Jul 2011 01:15 am)

Oh yeah. Of course you can statically link.

Select:

• Windows, Visual Studio 2008 and Allegro 5
• Windows, Visual Studio 2010 and Allegro 5

Select whichever one applies to you.


Anyways, finally tried out your game. Outputting text isn't hard, except loading the font sucks. You can either put a .ttf font with the file, or make a bitmap font. (I prefer ttf, but for a small game, just building in the bitmap font won't hurt)

Why not make a menu instead of the 5 second countdown. I thought it was broken but then I noticed the countdown :P

Wildsurvival: It randomizes the food for me. It could be his code(unlikely), or something with your OS. Not sure.

I've been trying to set it up to link statically and that guide was the one I used to set it up in the first place. 

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class EOSERV {
Programmer | Oldbie
Open source EO Client: https://github.com/ethanmoffat/EndlessClient
};

Actually, linking it statically just depends on what libs you link.

Instead of

liballegro-5.0.3-monolith-md.a

use

liballegro-5.0.3-monolith-static-mt.a

That's really all.

You need to call srand once before calling rand. That might be why.

Yes, that code should work for loading the font.

Instead of two lines though, it can just be:

ALLEGRO_FONT *font = al_load_font("font.pcx", 10, 0);

if (!font)

    printf("Failure...\n");

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Or write a nice font manager :)

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For a snake game, yeah right. Not worth it.

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I have a skeleton that I have saved as a template so to me it don't matter if it's a basic snake game I'd still use my font loader :P

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Addison posted: (13th Jul 2011 02:47 am)

Actually, linking it statically just depends on what libs you link.

Instead of

liballegro-5.0.3-monolith-md.a

use

liballegro-5.0.3-monolith-static-mt.a

That's really all.

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class EOSERV {
Programmer | Oldbie
Open source EO Client: https://github.com/ethanmoffat/EndlessClient
};

the gameplay is a lot faster than the snake I made in pascal :L! Kinda difficult :X

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