A coutinuation of discontinued "3D" Zune Shooter Game

[jackluo923]

I really love the idea of the zune shooter, but unfortunately, the developer of the original game stopped developing because of performance issue of zune 8.

Here's what I have so far:
-The source code is based on this
http://www.codeplex.com/raycasterx/S...leCommits.aspx
- I have tested out the performance of the raycasting engine and I think it works pretty well for zune 30 and possibally zune 80 as well. Below are 2 youtube video to show the performance.

+ YouTube Video

+ YouTube Video

- I've mastered the map file which is included in the raycasterX source code download.

Here's what we, developers, need to work on to finish the game.
-Add a animating sprite like the sprite in "the running man" game. Below is the link
http://www.zuneboards.com/forums/dow...nning-man.html
-Add the Zuneblade application the this project for music management and settings. There's a game called scrambled albums which calls the zuneblade when it's needed, otherwise it's hidden from view. I'd like to do that if it's possible
-Add a gun to this game. I saw the original zune shooter game, it had a static gun image in front of the raycasting walls. I believe by using a gun, it'll speed up this ray casting engine because there'll be less raycasting to render.
-Add a fog of some kind to this game in order to speed up the raycasting engine. The fog prevents is a device in "modern" game engine which speed up the game, thus distant obejcts won't be drawn in the game until it gets close to the camera.
-Add sound effects to the game
-Add a shooting device to the game to destory/make sprite disappear.

Any developer is free to add any ideas, improve the code, contribute graphics, contribute idea or contribute anything to this game. All credits will be given to the developers who have helped.

Thank you for reading.

[Robert13]

You could combine this with your maze game. =P

Wish you luck man

[soccermansince1993]

Use the sorce codes from running man and the games that involve these items that
you are looking for and incorporate them into your game! Also, to view some sprites,
go to google and search them or just borrow them from other zune games!
It looks like it is going to be a good game:
here the website for all of the zune games so far:
http://www.zuneboards.com/forums/dow...ted-games-174/
Good Luck!
I Hope This Helps!

[hxcolin]

Originally Posted by soccermansince1993

Use the sorce codes from running man and the games that involve these items that
you are looking for and incorporate them into your game! Also, to view some sprites,
go to google and search them or just borrow them from other zune games!
It looks like it is going to be a good game:
here the website for all of the zune games so far:
http://www.zuneboards.com/forums/dow...ted-games-174/
Good Luck!
I Hope This Helps!

Not sure if I completely follow, are you telling him to use other peoples ideas for this? Isn't that kinda stealing rather than borrowing, dude?

[LedZepp]

Originally Posted by soccermansince1993

Use the sorce codes from running man and the games that involve these items that
you are looking for and incorporate them into your game! Also, to view some sprites,
go to google and search them or just borrow them from other zune games!
It looks like it is going to be a good game:
here the website for all of the zune games so far:
http://www.zuneboards.com/forums/dow...ted-games-174/
Good Luck!
I Hope This Helps!

What you are implying is for him to steal other peoples work? Either way "using" the source code from running man wouldnt work here.

[jackluo923]

Originally Posted by soccermansince1993

Use the sorce codes from running man and the games that involve these items that
you are looking for and incorporate them into your game! Also, to view some sprites,
go to google and search them or just borrow them from other zune games!
It looks like it is going to be a good game:
here the website for all of the zune games so far:
http://www.zuneboards.com/forums/dow...ted-games-174/
Good Luck!
I Hope This Helps!

1st of all, if you have read the 1st post for running man, DiNoGames does not want us to modify his source code for our game because he wants to be asked beforehand. Secondly, I think I'll create them or have them created to avoid copyright issues. Finally, I have all the games there on my zune and there's no single game that's like this one. The souce code on the top of the 1st post is the only "game", that uses raycasting engine thus other game's source code isn't really compatible with this game.

[DiNoGames]

Originally Posted by jackluo923

DiNoGames does not want us to modify his source code for our game because he wants to be asked beforehand.

you could...... just.......ask!

[jackluo923]

Originally Posted by DiNoGames

you could...... just.......ask!

May I use your game's source code to gain some knowledge in order to create a animated sprite?

LOL

[DiNoGames]

*lol* Yes, you are allowed to learn from the source

To be honest, there is not much you can learn for the raycaster engine from Running Man because they work different.

I made a spritesheet for Running Man while the raycaster engine sprites work with a complete texture (and not only a part of it). So you need to store each animation frame in a seperate Texture2D and cycle through them... its a bit different than using a spritesheet.

If you need help, just ask.

[jackluo923]

OK.. I definetly need some help if its not too much to ask.

1) I looked into the code for the RaycasterX engine.
in Game1.cs at line 130 or so, there's this line of code

			//add some sprites to the level
            sprites.Add(new Sprite(new Vector2(3.5f, 3.5f), Content.Load<Texture2D>("Sprites/devil")));

"So you need to store each animation frame in a seperate Texture2D and cycle through them... its a bit different than using a spritesheet." - quote from in above post.

By storing each animation frame in a sepearate Texture2d and cycle through them, do you mean by the below code?

Say if I have 2 frames in a character animation, I would use something like the code below to cycle through the animations.

[code] //add some sprites to the level
sprites.Add(new Sprite(new Vector2(3.5f, 3.5f), Content.Load<Texture2D>("Sprites/devil")));
//remove some sprites to the level
sprites.Add(new Sprite(new Vector2(3.5f, 3.5f), Content.Load<Texture2D>("Sprites/devil")));
//add some sprites to the level
sprites.Add(new Sprite(new Vector2(3.5f, 3.5f), Content.Load<Texture2D>("Sprites/devilCOPY")));
//remove some sprites to the level
sprites.Add(new Sprite(new Vector2(3.5f, 3.5f), Content.Load<Texture2D>("Sprites/devilCOPY")));
//repeat line 132 - 136[code]

I'm not sure if this is the correct way to do it because this is only a educated guess.

Is there an alternative way to load animated sprites such as modifying the code and use the sprite sheet which you used for your running man game?

Jack
Thanks

[DiNoGames]

Hi Jack,

this is not the way to do it... infact, it does not make any sense in this context. With sprites.Add you add a new "object" to the game like the devil in the sample. But this will not animate it. You need to load all animation images into a list and then extend the sprite class (or better create a new class with sprite as base class). The extension is to increase a value that says which animationframe is the one to be shown now. Then check the last animation frame with the current and if its not the same (texture has changed) then set the Texture of the sprite to the current animation frame texture in the list.

The described doing is very easy to implement (at least I think so ). I have already done this for the maze game I am making.