I’ve been having a look at the Simple and Fast Multimedia Library (SFML) and it seems quite interesting. You can find out more about it at: http://sfml.sourceforge.net/ To quote from the website: SFML is a portable and easy to use multimedia API written in C++. You can see itas a modern, object-oriented alternative to SDL.SFML… Read More »
Spent some time at the weekend collecting more Encounter images and preparing them for use in the current release. My method for capturing these is pretty tedious but doesn’t take too long as there aren’t too many different encounter graphics and some are reused for different types of encounter. I basically save screenshots from within… Read More »
Finally managed to get the counters appearing in the right place on the gate sequence. Basically there are a number of different counters spinning round at different speeds. Pressing a key freezes the numbers and these become your character stats within the game. It also determines how much silver you start the game with. It… Read More »
I’ve recently made the switch from the freeware Dev C++ environment to Microsoft Visual Studio 2005. Dev C++ has served me well during the time that I’ve been playing around with this AR project but I decided to give Visual Studio a try and it seems to have worked well so far. I was really… Read More »
It’s been a while since I’ve released any updated versions of the demo so I’ve been thinking about what features I’d like to add next. I drew up a list but as it has a few dozen items on it I won’t repeat it here just now – too depressing! One of the features of… Read More »
Welcome to my Game Development Blog. Alternate Reality (AR) was a series of computer role playing games (CRPG) games back in the mid 1980s. The Alternate Reality games were originally intended as a series of seven scenarios – The City, The Dungeon, The Arena, The Palace, The Wilderness, Revelation and Destiny. Only the first 2… Read More »