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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by cbx[/i] [br]I am thinking about writing a very simple game in vb.net 2005 using VBExpress. [url]http://www.vbgamer.com/msgboard/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=490[/url] Something akin to the games you find at [url]http://zone.msn.com/[/url] I already have my own graphics library written for Managed DirectX. I have also converted/revised/extended a game console library ... [url]http://geekswithblogs.net/jolson/articles/2659.aspx[/url] ...so implementing a in game console will be trivial. The game itself should be very very simple. Something like a Joust, Bugertime, DigDug, BubbleBobble kind of simple. But some kind of game that is fairly original in the idea department. As well as small enough that a lone developer could complete on there own within a fairly short time frame. It should contain little or no phisics. Simple AI. And of cource be fun and challenging to play. I would clone one of the games listed above but do not want to deal with any babling fools (lawyers) after the game is completed. I think I have spent too much time writing helper libraries as I can't seem to come up with a simple enough game idea, or one that could be completed by one person. Up until now I have refrained from creating any app or game that consisted of more then 500k (give or take) of code. Not that I have not tried in the past. I have simply realized early on that before you can create a game you first need to be an experienced programmer. And my experience is no longer a concern, and has not been for some time. So I guess what I'm saying is I think I'm willing to make another attempt at making a game, and hopfully get around to calling it complete. :P I was just wondering what kind of simple game the VBGamer community would like to see created to showcase not only Manged DirectX but also VB.net etc. Or what simple games you enjoy playing, or wish you had the time to make. If there are enough responces I will start a new page at [url]www.GPWiki.org[/url] so the idea can be fully fleshed out. I had a preliminary idea similar to alien invaders involving a game where you were a ship that had a grapple hook and you had to carfully use the grapple to aquire special spheres that the enemy ships were defending. You could shoot but you could not destroy the ships or you could not destroy any more then 10% or so. The enemy could shoot back because it's there job to defend the spheres (it's there spheres after all). You would need to sling the gapple hook in between the enemy ships and the grapple could not touch the ememy more then a few times before being destroyed. the ememy could also shoot at your grapple so you need to protect it. etc. [img]http://www.createdbyx.com/temp/newgameidea.jpg[/img] [/quote]    Insert an File Check here to include your profile signature. Check here to subscribe to this topic.