First I would like to make the comment that "Submit News" link on the left side of the main NeHe Productions page doesn't work - I'm running WinXP/Firefox/Thunderbird. Secondly, I would like to thank the authors of the NeHe tutorials - I read through a few of them in April when I started learning OpenGL and writing my first game and they were helpful. And finally I would like to announce the publication of my first game, here: http://www.fascinationsoftware.com/FS/html/Invasion3D.html It uses SDL and OpenGL so there are Win32 and Linux versions available, and it's licensed as freeware. It's not too complicated - just a shooter with some interesting effects and massive destruction. I was inspired to write it while playing the original Space Invaders on MAME last summer because I was frustrated at the inability to shoot more than one projectile at once. In my game you can unleash holy hell on the invasion fleet with dual machine guns if you stockpile enough ammo. On the dev side, it has a somewhat complex particle engine - when an invader is shot with a projectile weapon, all of its polygons fly apart and rotate as they fly. I wrote some SSE assembly code to handle the rotations and got it down to about 15 instructions per vertex. That's important because you can have a lot of polygons flying around. There's also a neat 'shockwave' effect when you nail the UFO. I looked for tutorials on the net but all I found were Macromedia sites so if anyone thinks it's worthwhile to add a tutorial about this effect onto the NeHe site, I can write it. Anyway feel free to check it out: download, play a bit, post it on the news page if you think it's good enough to let your other visitors know. Regards, Richard Goedeken

Checking it out now.

I got the windows XP error window the game wont work I'm afraid.

I only get the standard crash report window the one that gives you the option to send an error report I get no other messages.

Admitedly ths comp has currently only got a GeForce 2 in it I'll try it on another machine.

Quote:Original post by Ademan555
Very cool, although (just a thought) controlling the ship with the mouse cursor might "feel" better for me (but thats just me). It was fun, and by the way, traiger you should probably post WHAT error you're getting, my guess is you just dont have one of the dynamic libraries/ Worked fine for me.

cheers (and keep up the good work)
-Dan

I understand your idea about the mouse movement.. It would be technically easy to do but I decided not to add mouse control for a couple of reasons. For one, the limited speed movement is a constraint which makes the game harder, and it would upset the difficulty level to have mouse movement. And second, my vision for the game is that it should capture the 'feel' of the original game while adding better graphics, more guns and destruction, and just a few other little things. Mouse movement would make feel more like Chromium than Space Invaders.

Richard

it was pretty cool but a suggestion though. maybe change the colors of the ships to add a little variety between the levels. also give extra lives during the game. for example score 1000 or 1500 points and gain another life. maybe as the levels progress make it harder and harder to get extra lives.