Hello all!
I just finished a game that I have been working on for the past 3-4 weeks and it turned out just as I planned it would. You can download it by going to my site
HERE (tripod doesn't allow direct downloads) and cliking the download link. Speaking of tripod, I'm most likely going to deplete my bandwidth allowance =o
Anyways, the file is 8mb in a zip format. While you're downloading, I'm just going to quote my readme file because that explains just about everything you need to know. Oh, and you also need Windows and the Visual Studio .NET framework, you can get it at
www.microsoft.com, but just about everyone should have it.
Quote:
Project: Hero Chess
Version: 1.0
--- Note ---
If you are reading this, then you are most likely a game dever as well. If you are then good, I made this to give
encouragement to those working on their projects, but have found themselves unwanting to proceed in order to finish them.
I know how that feels, and I wanted to quit this in particular one and work on a new game, but I continued anyways. Now I
can safely say that it's best to just do it, be proud of the results, and yada yada yada. By the way, chess is a good intermediate
project to code.. same goes for a simple turn-based RPG.
If you want to know how I did anything, just ask. I'm not as experienced as so many others out there, but I try to help as
much I can because so many have helped me.
--- Game Desc ---
Just another chess game, except in 3D with animated models and a few primitive effects. The AI isn't very good.. in fact it's
horrible. This is mainly for 2 human-type players, but I threw in the AI so that people could test the game without "playing by
themselves." If you find any bugs, then it's most likely with the king-checking, stale-mating, or check-mating. Other than
that, if the game crashes because you went fullscreen then delete the file settings.cfg to remove the saved video settings.
Do not manually edit that file.
-- CONTROLS ---
You only need the mouse for this, unless you do not have a mouse wheel...
Escape: main menu
Left Click: select / move / attack
Right Click: unselect unit
Mouse Wheel Up -OR- Arrow Up Key: Zoom In
Mouse Wheel Down -OR- Arrow Down Key: Zoom Out
IMPORTANT: The cursor snaps to the middle of the window when you alt-tab. Go to the main menu to properly recontrol the
cursor.
your comments from my previous "game" were really helpful, I fixed a lot of issues and they should not exist in this one =o
ohyeah, and I said that I'd post screens as well...
bishop (sorcerer) attacks pawn
knight pierces weak little pawn
if the game doesn't work then first, I'm sorry, and second, the answer lies in the log.dat file. It's a real toothache when it comes to the files, if anything is missing then it won't bother to continue. And I just fixed the "eval.piece is dead... flag forgotten somewhere" error and reuploaded the file in case you were getting a tripod error... didn't even have enough space for both... and I just realized that the "x wins" message is wrong. This is minor, I'll fix it later.
[Edited by - Lee_ on January 8, 2005 10:53:08 AM]
