You won't want to read this...

Buy2Stamps · 2001-12-18T20:22:25

...I warned ya... :-) If you happen to get the team of people, who have no idea about game programming, yet even to say programming. (I AM THE ONLY C++ PROGRAMMER!!!), and have this situation, what do you do... >>I am the C++ programmer - I make the brains of the game >>We have 14 graphics artists, who CAN make the graphics engine >>We have 3 beginner VB programmers, who are just tagging along Now, this is what we want to do: =============================== The VB programmers REALLY want to make the interface (i am not the boss)...I am told to make the game engine, and do the general game "Brains" design. The graphics artists would make the Graphics Engine using Flash...or director. Now, out of this WHOLE mess this is what we want to come up with: -The .exe that would be the Graphics Engine (apparently tou can make .exe''s in Flash or Director...hey I have no idea) -The .exe that would be the game it''self..the Brains...written the Brain...me (hehe ;-) ) -The VB garbage that we don''t really need but have anyway that will be the "Interface" (Oooooo Aaaaaaa) Now, after glueing this all together we want to get a game (go figure). The way we though of making this work is by having a communication line between the running programs. (This does not really apply to the VB interface, because it will only launch the Graf Eng, and the Game, then close itself). This is how this communication line would work: BOTH PROGRAMS HAVE A LOOP- When an Input Event occures in the graphics engine, it would tell the Game Engine what happened (a value or something) and the Game Engine would respond to the Graphics Engine...like telling it "Blow Head Off". Communication between the two engines would be continous, so whateven happens in either engine would effect the output of the other engine. So, if a randome event occures in the Game Engine''s AI...like a falling rock, then it will tell the Graphics engine to drop a rock figure at X,Y, and Z coords. The Input Events only occure in the Graphics Engine, the Game Engine is more of the processor. ================== SUM: -3 .exe''s -2 Main Engines -Infinate Communication Loop -Game Engine is the Event Processor -Grapghics engine is the user input retriever, and the output Well...If anybody has any idea of what I am talking about, you should win the Nobel Prize for Human Communication ;-) Well, have fun decoding what I wrote quote: If Windows crashed in a forest...were did you plug it in?

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Started by Buy2Stamps December 17, 2001 09:44 PM

15 comments, last by Buy2Stamps 23 years ago

Anonymous

December 17, 2001 11:59 PM

quote: Original post by Buy2Stamps
...I warned ya... :-)

but sometimes I like to know there are people who have it so much worse than me.

quote:
If you happen to get the team of people, who have no idea about game programming, yet even to say programming. (I AM THE ONLY C++ PROGRAMMER!!!), and have this situation, what do you do...

I''ld get out a spoon and start digging a tunnel under my desk to freedom and sanity.

Alternatively, saying to the boss "you''re an idiot. I quit." is actually a pretty sensible option.

Either way, good luck with the escape plan

Vlion

151

December 18, 2001 12:12 AM

Well now...
I would say...
Tell the gfx and VB guys to find a temporary job for a few months.
Get anotehr c++ guy and develop the engines. gfx, sounds, input, etc. Do it all as a DLL or COM or what-have-you. Make sure it is totally unbuggy.
Then you would get the VB dudes in and they would make the game, along with the gfx guys, and you are home free.

Or...quit. :-)

~V'lionBugle4d

iNsAn1tY

476

December 18, 2001 07:35 PM

Hot damn. Yeah. Run. Fast. As far away as you can. Or, tell the graphics artists to draw pictures. That''s what they''re there for. Sack the VB programmers, or hand them a copy of C++ For Dummies. And forget Flash/Director. I don''t even know how you could tie in any output they could provide you with, except in .bmp format...

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kseh

3,998

December 18, 2001 07:55 PM

The only way I see this making any sense is if it''s a web type game. There was some kind of gerbil in a microwave ''game'' I seem to remember which was done in flash. VB would be for stuff on the web page, and a C programmer would create some sort of com object for the VB guys to access or something (unless flash can get at com objects for ai).

pwd

122

December 18, 2001 07:59 PM

Gerbil in a microwave???

Give us liberty, or give us death!

Anonymous

December 18, 2001 08:20 PM

Yes, gerbil in microwave.

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KwamiMatrix

122

December 18, 2001 08:21 PM

Um, you need to run like hell.

This has to be the weirdest developement team I have ever heard of. 14 graphics artists? What? And you are the only programmer with C++ abilities? You got to be kidding me. One more thing. SInce when does an artist create a graphics engine? They create the models and the animation, the programmer does the real brute force work. VB? Please. I have no experience in VB, but do not really see it as an asset. The structure of your project is MESSED UP. Your screwed.

Edem Attiogbe

Edited by - KwamiMatrix on December 18, 2001 9:22:25 PM

Edem Attiogbe

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