Breakout!Ā Day 1: An Idea
So here I am. Day 1. The first game I am going to be making is a Breakout! clone.
If you donāt know what Breakout! is, you do. The player controls a paddle that moves horizontally, bound by the screen, which is used to bounce a ball back up (and away from the horrible bottom of the screen which causes a loss of a life) at a bunch of bricks. These bricks break and the ball will bounce back. Once all the bricks are broken, the player has won. But if the player loses three lives by the ball hitting the bottom of the screen past her paddle, the game is lost.Ā
So what did I accomplish today?
Welp, not a whole lot, but enough to be satisfied because it is a start. Iāve spent my day wondering about the classes Iād need to make this work, and luckily for me, itās do-able. Iāve decided to use SFML, as my experience with Unity and other game engines left me wanting to program more. I know itās harder, but I want the experience. I know reinventing the wheel (making a game engine myself) is a BAD idea, thatās why Iām not doing that. I am keeping it simple by only implementing WHAT I NEED. No fancy engine features. When I encounter a problem, I wonāt be abstracting it out so itāll work in future games. Right now, my focus is on making this one game, not making future ones. This is the approach I plan on taking for the first few games I make, since I think itāll be the best way to understand game development for me personally.Ā
Now to talk about the tangible planning that I achieved today. I simply wrote out the classes I think I need and the members I think theyāll have. Nothing is set is stone! Since this is my first project, I plan on encountering hiccups along the way! Anyways, here is what I have:
Brick Class:Ā The bricks will be destroyed when the ball hits it
Ball Class: The ball will bounce off all surfaces
Paddle Class: The paddle is a player controlled block that moves horizontally and is bound by the screen
Game Class: The game will enforce the rules
vector<Brick*> Bricks? (too technical at this stage, but Iām thinking ahead)
There will be more, but this is what I thought of today. Tomorrow I will start playing around with getting things to show up on the screen. Maybe something more. We will have to wait and see.
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