20 August 2004 - This page goes online 19 December 2003 - Release of version 0.9 for Windows 17 December 2003 - Release of version 0.9 for Linux (source included) 12 December 2003 - Project registration at SourceForge.net
Description
BlueCube is a simple tetris clone written in C. I started this project to just get into game and graphics
programming.
Some words to the history of BlueCube:
I was new to game programming and didn't know how to begin,
until I read an article from gamedev.net ("How do I make games?
A path to Game Development"). The text said that the perfect game
to begin would be Tetris, because you only need a very simple collision detection and
the graphics are easy to draw (just rectangles). So I started the project "BlueCube", which should of course be
just another boring tetris clone (in the beginning under Windows with MSVC++), using C and SDL, because it's simple,
portable and efficient. I can't remember exactly, but I think it took me about a month (but there were several days I did nothing; yes, I am a very lazy programmer!) to create something playable.
The first implementation ideas came in school, and a solution for my collision detection (well, it is not really a collision
detection, but who cares... anyway, i had some problems to figure out this stuff) came in church (!), very funny ;) I also implemented a
small text engine (inspired by Lesson 4 of Marius Andras Tutorial
"GFX with SDL"), which simply reads out the characters from a bitmap and blits the desired strings onto the screen.
A few weeks later I changed my operating
system to Linux, so I compiled the game there with gcc (which was of course very easy, thanks to SDL!).
The game is working well now and is stable, but it's not finished yet and there are still some things to implement
(brick graphics, highscore list, better sound effects :) etc.).
