kev51773 Posted September 3, 2013 Share Posted September 3, 2013 (edited) Hi all, I'm bored so I feel like coding an old Spectrum game I used to play in AutoIT. I'm fairly confident that I can easily accomplish the game flow / controls / AI etc. I'm just unsure of the most efficient way to draw the graphics. (I don't really do or especially understand graphics programming) Basically the game works on a grid. Players / Enemies only move by increments of the grid size. I'm thinking around a 30x20 grid of 16 pixel squares but I'll have to take another look at the original to get a faithful reproduction of the original. I'm aware that there are more appropriate ways to develop this but I haven't had much reason to use AutoIT for quite some time and I'm looking for an excuse. Any advice or just some pointers to some appropriate reading would be most welcome. Edit: Further information. If it's useful in deciding the best way to go. The game screen will actually consist of a 32x22 grid of 8x8 pixel tiles. Each tile will only contain 2 colours and there will only be 9 colours in the whole game. A maximum of 30 tiles will change per game tick and the game will tick 3 times per second. The number of tiles will be quite limited (There will be a set of 14 tiles, each in 7 colours, and then a further 4 tiles which are always the same colour) Thanks Edited September 3, 2013 by kev51773 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Melba23 Posted September 3, 2013 Moderators Share Posted September 3, 2013 Hi,Before anyone else reports this thread, can I point out that writing games in AutoIt is positively encouraged - the Forum rules are only relevant when AutoIt is used to interact with existing games. M23 Any of my own code posted anywhere on the forum is available for use by others without any restriction of any kind Open spoiler to see my UDFs: Spoiler ArrayMultiColSort ---- Sort arrays on multiple columnsChooseFileFolder ---- Single and multiple selections from specified path treeview listingDate_Time_Convert -- Easily convert date/time formats, including the language usedExtMsgBox --------- A highly customisable replacement for MsgBoxGUIExtender -------- Extend and retract multiple sections within a GUIGUIFrame ---------- Subdivide GUIs into many adjustable framesGUIListViewEx ------- Insert, delete, move, drag, sort, edit and colour ListView itemsGUITreeViewEx ------ Check/clear parent and child checkboxes in a TreeViewMarquee ----------- Scrolling tickertape GUIsNoFocusLines ------- Remove the dotted focus lines from buttons, sliders, radios and checkboxesNotify ------------- Small notifications on the edge of the displayScrollbars ----------Automatically sized scrollbars with a single commandStringSize ---------- Automatically size controls to fit textToast -------------- Small GUIs which pop out of the notification area Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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kev51773 Posted September 4, 2013 Author Share Posted September 4, 2013 Thanks, I'd just spotted that, The Space Invaders example by Eigensheep is exactly what I was looking for. Hopefully, I'll be making a contribution to that list soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kev51773 Posted September 17, 2013 Author Share Posted September 17, 2013 Didn't end up using Eigensheep method of drawing pixel by pixel because (probably due to my own bad implementation) it was too slow. Finished effort at '?do=embed' frameborder='0' data-embedContent>> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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