how do i make a game in C

• wordwarvi

  4 102 1.9 C

  Word War vi is a retro-styled old school side scrolling shooter reminiscent of Defender or Scramble, with an "Emacs vs. vi" theme. See: http://smcameron.github.io/wordwarvi/

At a very high level, set up an array of objects in your game. Each object has the ability to draw itself, and move itself. Each iteration of the game, move all the objects, and draw all the objects and sample user input. Set up a timer to iterate the game 30 or 60 times per second. Here's one game I wrote in C that works in this way: Word War vi If you dig through old commits in the repo you can follow the development from the very beginning, which begins with just creating a GTK window with a button). Almost every commit in that repo should compile and run. There may be the odd one here or there that crashes, but 99% of them should be fine, so if you want to advance through the commit history and see how the game progressed over time, you can do that. I wouldn't presume say the code is exemplary by any stretch, but it's fairly straight forward, and it works.

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