I just wanted to say thank you for Chaos Groove. I’m playing it to the exclusion of any other chaos-type, including the original

If you do another update some time, I’d be delirious to have the option to have music playing during the games as well as on the loader screens! Either way, thank you for providing so much fun!

All the best,
Tim.

http://chaosremakes.wikia.com/wiki/Chaos_Remakes_Wiki

I inivite all interested parties to contribute!

Sadly enough they’re not all. Is there any place one can find them Richard?

I used to have a series of articles on game creation where I explained how I work. Basically, I’ve found it best to focus on seeing results on the screen as soon as possible.. even if this means you will rewrite code in the future.

For example, for chaos you will need some basic ideas of how the data should be stored, but if you go into too much detail then (unless you are the kind of programmer who loves that detailed planning) you will lose interest.

So, write a routine to draw the blank board enclosed by the world border. Now you have instant results! Now write some code to draw some wizards and creatures randomly on the board. More motivation, so now think about how to make those wizards and creatures pieces on the board rather than just graphics, then make it so you can move a creature around with the arrow keys or the mouse. Perhaps switching between selected creatures by clicking on another creature..

Speaking of the mouse, add a mouse cursor and perhaps some stats shown when over a creature. Now it’s starting to look like a game already!

That’s how I work anyway..

This is one of the big strengths and bonuses of object oriented programming really; you can concentrate on making the individual components work nicely, then slot them all together.

Having started an attempt to do some programming (C#) my respect for what you guys do has increased even further.

I’ve been playing a lot of Chaos Groove (about 50/50 compared to how often I play the original now) and I’m delighted you’re keeping it alive with some updates.

One of these days I really will sit down and send you some spell requests. I mean I’d love to programme a remake of my own one day, but until that time in the distant future, yours is definitely the one to beat!

Just taking a look at the source code now… really want to get moving on this thing but motivation (always a problem for me) is such a factor. I can’t help but think hearing from you with regard your experiences with programming could help. If there’s anywhere I could go to read about that (like a blog post) please do let me know.

I haven’t visited allegro.cc for a long time. Feel free to post on there if you wish.

BTW: The source was available before for some time..