How will an Araknoid do?

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#1

I am recently thinking to make a game something like Araknoid.I want to know if it will be worth making a game of such kind for experience as well as want to have some suggestions regarding the game.Please reply…

#2

My rule is I only bother working on things I would want to play myself at the end. Only foolproof source of motivation, especially if you know you’re coding primarily for the experience, as you say you are. So if it sounds good to you, go for it! :smiley:

Obviously a straight clone is of no commercial worth now though. If you have new angles on gameplay, well who knows, but the genre has been pretty thoroughly mined for novelty over the years!

#3

Yes do that, you have to start somewhere. Arkanoid is simple enough so you can implement a basic version rather quickly, but it allows you a lot of room for improvements and tweaks in graphics and gameplay. Get the bare game running, add a menu, highscores, more features and polish it up. Don’t try to do too much but rather try to create something that feels like a complete game, even if it’s a basic one.

And watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy0aCDmgnxg :wink:

#4

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Agreed, although I’m of the opinion that these old simplistic games can be properly re-used as minigames in larger projects (like how bioshock used the pipe-connecting game to do the hacking… Even though it might not have been too good an implementation).

In any case, as a beginner project it’s a great point to start from.

#5

Re-making classic arcade game is a good way to take a limited set of game principles and figuring out how to implement them, with Arkanoid you’ll have to figure out basic collision detection and response. With Pac Man it would simple AI and with Defender it would be scrolling the viewport over a map larger than the screen (for example).

As for suggestions for the game;

This is good advice, get the whole thing done. There’s a big difference in implementing some game play and finishing a game.

#6

Thanks Very much Everyone above for encouraging me ;D ;D ;D

#7

Here you can see my progress in Araknoid :