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Oldschool point-and-click adventure game development

Dalton · 2003-02-11T20:33:20

I''ve been programming Computer games using DirectDraw for about a year and a half. I''ve finished two tile-based platform games, and now I''d like to do something with a bit more depth. What I''d really like to do is an oldschool point-and-click adventure game, in the same vein as the King''s Quest series or Kyrandia series. I realize that going from a tile-based graphics engine to the kind of graphics engine this type of game will demand is a huge step. This post is a plea for guidance; I have a numerous questions regarding how these games work. How is the game screen drawn? In seems as if each screen is composed of a giant background image, then a few other giant images layered on top of it. In my experiences, using DirectDraw to blit giant bitmaps has been very slow, so naturally I''m confused as to how to draw the game screen. How do I suddenly change aspects of the game screen? If the background really IS just one giant blit, then if I want to suddenly, for instance, snap a branch off of a certain tree, will I need two giant background images - one with an undamaged tree and one with a damaged tree? That''s all I think I''ll ask for now, but feel free to add any pointers. A simple outline of the aspects of the game engine would be greatly appreciated as well.

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Started by Dalton February 08, 2003 07:29 PM

10 comments, last by Dalton 21 years, 2 months ago

Kevlar-X

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February 11, 2003 04:57 PM

YoshiN: 8x4 == 32 .... 32x1 == 32.

You can cram four pixels of an 8bpp image into the same amount of mem one 32bpp pixel eats.
How can moving more data, be faster!??

Using 8bpp images around will always be faster. Its less ''stuff''!

"1 is equal to 2 for significantly large quantities of 1" - Anonymous

Anonymous

February 11, 2003 08:33 PM

Wouldnt it be feasible nowdays to make a polygon based adventure game? You could make every scene as a separate model, with a defined camera position and such.

This way you dont have to worry about handling when your main character walks behind something, or fullscreen blits.

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