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Hurray Banana:
I've seen some books like this. But I like building stuff myself. I don't get a lot of time to code and I get guilty if I spend time programming when I should be developing materials for my course, so if I can sort of justify to myself that I'm programming for my course then I don't mind spending hours on end working on stuff.

The students knowledge when they start their game is pretty basic so I will still need to build a sprite engine that simplifies as much stuff for them as possible.
IG-88:

--- Quote from: Hurray Banana on October 21, 2006, 12:06:22 pm ---I run the ICT courses at my college and the 2nd year students are creating (crappy - but they'll be an achievement for them) arcade games for their 2nd year programming portfolio. I'm currently writing a GDI based sprite engine in VB.Net for them to use (got a week left to finish it). These games are going to run in a bartop I'm creating.

Anyway I've been messing with Visio to work out control panel layouts and knocked up a load of button layout stencils for various setups.

I've linked to it here, feel free to use them. (it's zipped up)

http://www.geocities.com/hurraybanana/arcadecontrols.zip

I'll probably add more to the stencil as I go on as I am also working on a cocktail cab and plan another stand up cab to go with my now butchered (now 2 player control test rig) 4 player stand up (it's impossible to stop once you start this damn hobby).

I've included a pic with the stencils in it.

Click belowfor a full set (so far)
http://www.geocities.com/hurraybanana/ArcadeControlsFullpic.gif

--- End quote ---

Thanks alot for the stencils, these will come in handy!

I'll am really interested in this bartop with the student games you have in the works. Make sure you post some pics here for us! Will you be able to post the games here for us too? Crappy is in only the eye of the beholder ya know ;)
Hurray Banana:
I'm working out the dimensions at the mo'

I was going to build a full size cab, but my wife (and also my co-curriculum manager) told me I probably wouldn't be able to justify that to the finance department.

(seems to be a problem posting the rest of message)!
Bill Mote:
Start a SourceForge project with your code.  You'll be amazed at how many people are willing to contribute to your engine.

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FrizzleFried:
What program do I use to view that template?

.VSS?

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