Robot 1.5 - inside of the game - Linux GTK
Robot 1.7 - startscreen - Linux GTK
Robot 1.7 - leveleditor - Linux GTK
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Description
Robot is a adventure-game, where you lead your controled body through
different very exiting rooms up to the bad king. For your way, you need
the right keys for the dors, you need to destroy your enemies (the robots)
and you have to solve some problems.
Idea
The idea based on the very old, famous, same-named
DOS-game Robot.
The gameplay is the same, but the original game is much more complex,
the graphics are better and the world is bigger.
The project Robot 2 is a port of my old Visual Basic project
Robot 1, one of my very first games. Robot 2 was coded
in Object Pascal for
Free Pascal
with
Lazarus.
You can desribe Lazarus as a plattform-independend, open-source and free
alternative to Delphi. Take a look at it, it is very nice.
Versions
The beta version (all version less than 2.0) was coded for beginning
programmers. I wanted to show how you can code a complex game like this
with very basic programming technics. After a little tutorial in Delphi
or Lazarus, everyone should be able to read and understand the whole source
code. See also my coding for absolute dummies
tutorial (german only at the moment) for more information.
The Super Special Laura Edition (1.6) (renamed to 'Hopper') is a special
version for Laura and contains some modifications of the look
onto the game...
Version 1.7 now contains a complete new world with new mysteries and an
ingame-leveleditor.
Leveleditor
All beta versions after 1.7 contains an ingame-leveleditor.
The control is easy:
Go into the editor mode (menu). All game-objects are listed
in your knapsack. Simply select an object and place it in the
present room by left-clicking at the wanted position.
You can also select the objects in the knapsack by clicking on them.
With a right-click, you can remove an object. With Ctrl+Arrowkey,
you can switch to other rooms. Don't forget to come back
to the room where your body is, because else, you can't
resume playing on exiting the editor mode.
Control of your body
The movement is controlled by the arrow-keys. You can catch things
laying around by simple go to them. They will be put into your knapsack.
Select the thing in your knapsack you want to use with spacebar.
You can use them by pressing enter. There are corrosive liquids filled
in bottles laying around. You can remove walls with it
(only the bright walls). Every door needs a key to enter it.
The are 3 diamonds laying somewhere around. You need them to defeat
the bad king. You have to put them near of the diamond-places
(go there and select it in your knapsack). You can save the game
with the clocks laying around. ...
Events
You can change any event of some game-object or everything else by simply
change the dependent source code. You don't need any programming experience,
it is very easy. Open the Lazarus project-file (robot.lpi) with
Lazarus (download it
here) and look at the code of umainform.pas.
Perhaps the most interesting functions for you are MoveToPlace and
UseKnapsackSelection.
If you make any change and think it will be interesting for others, simply
mail me.
Screenshots
Robot 1.5 - inside of the game - Linux GTK
Robot 1.7 - startscreen - Linux GTK
Robot 1.7 - leveleditor - Linux GTK
Download
All archives include a precompiled Linux x86 bin, a Windows EXE and the
complete source code with the Lazarus project-file.
Robot 1.5 - Beta
Robot 1.5 - Beta - source only
Hopper 1.6 - Super Special Laura Edition
Robot 1.7 with new levels and an ingame-eveleditor and additional Linux ppc bin:
Download at Lazarus-CCR Sourceforge (faster download)
Robot 1.7 - everything
Robot 1.7 - win32 exec + source
Robot 1.7 - linux x86 bin + source
Robot 1.7 - linux ppc bin + source
Robot 1.7 - source only
See also
If you understand german, my tutorial coding for absolute dummies
may be interesting for you. After some basic programing technics, it uses this game as a main sample.
If you want to support my work, please donate via Gittip/Flattr here:
The program published here is under the copyright of Albert Zeyer. In that case there is the source code to download, it is under the LGPL-licence. Distributions of it are only allowed with a reference to this page.
Links
- Other projects
- Mainsite
Albert Zeyer (Mail)
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The code can be seen here. Please contact me if you find any problems. :)