Games

Game Concept and Design.

My game called "Igloo The Penguin" is a complete game. It contains:

A) A splash screen to introduce the game

B) Multiple areas to offer different challenges

C) Sound / Music management

D) Character interaction with other characters and objects

E) Object animations like opening treasure chests and moving seaweed underwater

F) Timing management for game state and ending criteria

G) Bump maps to prevent going through walls or objects

H) Complete scoring and high score management

Overall it is a simple game. A simple game engine driving my simple game. I decided to write my own Game Engine versus using an already written one like UnReal. I wanted to learn more about how Windows worked. I read a book on game programming and used a very basic sample of a primitive game engine. I then learned about how it worked and modified all of it into my very own complete Game Engine. That took about one year of trial and error and lots of books such as Charles Petzold - "Programming Windows 95".  At the time Windows 7 was in use. But Windows 95 is a great starting point since a lot of versions was based upon it. That helped me to understand how Windows worked. The basic principle of video games is based upon those principles.

Basically your game logic sits on top of the Game Engine.

To be continued...