Well okay, i’m probably over playing it but C++ has to be one of the most horrifically picky languages i’ve ever dealt with! After half a day of not understanding any of the references i had on paper or found on the web as regards objects (i get the principles, just not how to implement them) the game now uses arrays instead. [Rude gesture at the OOP fans!] And whose bright idea was it to use radians for sin and cos…?!

When i’ve settled on the final “theme” and got something more than test graphics to show, there’ll be pretties.

i’m going to “learn” C++ and use Allegro to handle the media; that’ll probably come as something of a surprise to a few people who know me because i’ve tried learning C++ a couple of times previously with absolutely no luck. The trick, for me at least, seems to be totally ignoring any reference books or tutorials because within a day of installing CodeBlocks and fiddling around to get it working with Allegro i’ve got working code out of it!

i could probably cobble a very simple game together by this evening as long as i didn’t use objects and linked lists but i don’t want to subject people to my coding “experiments” quite that much, so i’m going to look into linked lists within C++ (before giving up and using arrays no doubt) and am sticking with the arena shooting theme for the project as a whole. There’s no name for it yet, but that’ll come sooner or later.