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Warmachine · Post by **Warmachine** » Fri Feb 21, 2003 4:06 am

What is the easiest game to make for the Dreamcast for beginers??

JMD · Post by **JMD** » Fri Feb 21, 2003 4:56 am

Choose the toss

JMD · Post by **JMD** » Fri Feb 21, 2003 5:31 am

More seriously, I thing that the easiest game to make for beginers should :
- A 2D graphics game used with SDL
- Have statics levels (no scroll)
- Simple player controls (just directions for exemple)
- Just 1 player
- Have simple graphics (not a lot of bitmaps to create)
- No enemies or simples move ones with poor AI

In fact, a game like Sokoban should be perfect. A Pacman should be fun too (may be harder).

toastman · Post by **toastman** » Fri Feb 21, 2003 7:01 am

Or in other words, Tetris.

Phantom · Post by **Phantom** » Fri Feb 21, 2003 7:52 am

toastman wrote:Or in other words, Tetris.

I think Tetris would be too complicated for a real beginner. I suggest a Pong clone.

crt0 · Post by **crt0** » Fri Feb 21, 2003 9:10 am

Pong first definitely, for an ubern00b. Then Breakout or Tetris. Breakout is great. -_-

BlackAura · Post by **BlackAura** » Fri Feb 21, 2003 9:30 am

This is basically how Pong works:

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Reset ball position and direction, bat positions and scores

Main loop:
    Get controller 1's state. Move left bat up/down.
    Get controller 2's state. Move right bat up/down.
    Move ball.
    If the ball hits a bat, reverse it's horizontal direction.
    If ball hits top or bottom, reverse it's vertical direction.
    If ball hits left or right, reset the ball and add to the other player's score.
    Draw a box for the ball, and two rectangles for the bats