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@@ -1,133 +0,0 @@ -BulletLabRemix II, Extras -2014-06-06 - -Content ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -About the source code -About resources used in the game -The development - -About the source code ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -I'm not a rigorous coder. All sources are written casually. -You can even find two code chunks in one file with different styles... -But generally, I: - Use tabs (width=4) and indent in Allman style; - Don't like extra spaces; - Prefer commas if possible; - Don't like very long names. - -And, the source code is bloated. global.h defined ~200 lines of global variables. -Imagine that. - -Well, the reason is that BLRI start as a huge monolithic source file - main.cpp. -It's once a ~100KiB file, and have more than 10k lines of code. One day I found it -impossible to maintain such code and split it into several .h file. BLRII took the -code base of BLRI. That's why. BLRIII will be a complete rewrite and I hope this -would fix the problem. - -Well, let's observe each source file. - -background.h Defines and implies background animation. -effects.h implement several simple in-game effects. -global.h Defines global variables and routines. -hgeft.h Free type interface for HGE. It's considered buggy and - incomplete now... -levels.h implement the levels. -libcgh.h Chris' Game Helper interfaces. -loading.h Resources for the loading screen. -menus.h implement the menus. -music.h Music playback and looping. -scorec.h Record highscores. -scoresystem.h The BLR Multiplier scoring system. -towernbullet.h implement towers and bullets. -hgeft.cpp Free type interface for HGE. This is the implementation. -libcghEx.cpp Extra routines for the CGH. -main.cpp Contains main(int,char**), and player controls. - -About resources used in the game ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -Most resources are self-made... - -b_diff.png A café wall illusion background -b_inter.png A swirl illusion background -b_leaves.png Taken from a Windows 3.1 desktop background, unused -b_null.png Simple white background -blnsns.png Font file. Font name "Berlin sans" -credits.png Resources used in the credits screen. -e_leaf.png Texture for leaves background effect. Taken from a Windows 3.1 - dekstop background. -e_sflake.png A snow texture for background effect. Taken from public domain. -e_skyitem.png Sky background resources. Taken from HGE tutorial. Cloud is - from public domain. -help.png Built-in help. -menus.png Menu textures. -ss.png Sprite Sheet. Taken from BLRI. Made with inkscape. -title.png Title sprite. Pre-processed with inkscape. -All resources are processed or made with GIMP. - -menuin.ogg Menu effect. Made with OpenMPT. -menuout.ogg Ditto. -tap.ogg Widely used. Taken frome HGE. - -BLR2_TR01.ogg Background music for level1. Original by Noby. -BLR2_TR07.ogg Background music for level7. Original by Chris Jarvis. -BLR2_TR09.ogg Background music for credits scene. Taken frome BLR2_TR07. -CanonTechno.ogg Bonus? Made by Chris Xiong. -Softwares used: OpenMPT, Rosegarden, Cakewalk Sonar 6. -Syntheis: QSynth+Fluid R3 sf, Roland Groove Synth, Cakewalk TTS-1, Roland -Super Quartet. -Proprietary softwares are all cracked. I can't afford them now. - -The development ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -As a student, developing such a game will never be supported... -So, the development is "well hidden". -The post-0.2.2 development are mostly done under Windows(8/8.1). After that, I -migrated the main platform to Debian GNU/Linux. I'm using the unstable distribution. -I'm not a true developer but I'm really one of those who like to like on the edge. -Recently I installed Archlinux, which has taken me to the "bleeding edge". "Edges" -are different from "borders", they are more sharp! - -Well, I first played BulletLAB when I was 13. It's easy enough and I passed the easy -levels without any trouble. Then I tried normal and hard, all done without much -difficulty. Then comes the "Extreme" mode, in which you have to pass the whole game -without misses. That took me a long time... - -In March 2013, I was pretty bored (in fact, preparing a contest). And I found the -small flash game again. I decompiled it, and started modifing it. Soon I found this -interesting, and made the game VERY difficult. I even "released" that. - -However, flash is really inefficient. As the bullet number grows, FPS falls -violently. So a rewrite is planned. - -First things first, how to draw so many objects on a screen? An STG game that has a -file "hge.dll" in its directory came to my mind. I could still see the fancy effects -it has. I googled for hge and found that it's a hardware accelerated game engine. - -Well, that's it! I wrote several simple scenes as practices, then BLRI started. I -found HGE really powerful and can draw 2000 objects in 1000FPS. F***in' awesome! - -BLRI's source code growed rapidly. Soon it's almost 100KiB. It's almost impossible -for me to maintain so big a file. That's why the source code is presented in many -headers. - -When BLRI reached 0.8.6, BLRII was forked from it. BLRII started as a level testbed -for BLRI. However, BLRI was frozen (this term is borrowed from the debian project, and -is not at all releated to Cirno) before these levels can be added to it. If they -*were* added, the source code of BLRI would no longer be human-readable. - -As BLRI was released (as 1.0.3SR), I can relax myself a bit. During that I found -hge-unix, which can port almost any hge-based game to UNIX. I tried it and it works! - -Then I started modifing hge: migrating the Windows version to DirectX 9, implement -stubbed functions in hge-unix, deprecating libbass and migrating to OpenAL... - -Soon I completed them all. Then I picked up BLRII (around Oct. 2013), which already -has free-shaped lasers implemented. - -To declare my ambition to change BLR, the whole level.h was removed (with a backup -of course). - -However this didn't change too much. Almost all levels were ported back to the -current version later.
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