Hello everyone. I'm a computer science college graduate, and, in addition to my Super Mario World hacks, I'm trying to make some games completely from scratch using just C++ and a C++ code library called Simple DirectMedia Layer.



First, I want to show off a completed Breakout clone using a YouTube video as a guide. Breakout is one of my favorite games, so I'm glad to have made a version from scratch. It does feel a little clunky, though.

Download it here!



Now for something I'm REALLY proud to be making, which is an RPG not being made through RPG Maker, Game Maker, Unity, Unreal, or any existing game engine, but completely from scratch using just C++ and SDL. I bought a book called How to Make an RPG, and I'm following that. It has been a really rough road. Here is what I have so far.

Download it here!

Controls:
arrow keys: move
Z key: interact/confirm
X key: go back to the previous menu
S key: open the menu and completely close the menu and go back to the game even if you're in the item menu

(That room doesn't actually appear in the game. It's a screen shot of the game in development of me showing off the menus. Technically, the game in that download link is still in development, and it ends in a soft lock after opening the grate.)

With all the work that seems involved, this seems criminally undervisited and I've nominated you for spotlight.

Let me try it out now

Edit: OK. Please don't harm me for saying that but I think the video size is pretty small and hurts my eyes, it's a pity we can't seem to increase it nor play it full scren. But again I don't know how big of an ordeal that would be to enable it in C++.

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Nice to see you're still working on this. I may have already seen most of it off-site, but nice to hear you're still making progress! Hope it's coming along nicely. I'm sure there's still a long road ahead before it goes anywhere, but nice nevertheless!

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Feel free to visit my website/blog - it's updated rarely, but it looks pretty cool!

Do these also run on any consoles or just PC?

PC.

Making games from scratch is actually a rather easy thing depending on your definition of a game. Things get more complex if you go beyond that and make a game like a text adventure and even further if there is a playfield and add in graphics.
It's definitively interesting to see that someone made a game from scratch.

That also made me realise that I should probably go back and learn SDL again...

I remember you showed me that WIP RPG. Even though there was almost nothing to do (and the screen was really tiny), it's interesting that you coded all that from scratch. It'll be interesting to see where that RPG game goes from here. Also, I didn't know you made a Breakout clone from scratch, too (unless you showed that off on your server and I simply forgot)!

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My Hacks:
Mario's Strange Quest V1.6
Yoshi's Strange Quest V1.3 / V1.3.1 Beta 4.6
Mario & Yoshi's Strange Quests (7/3/2021 Build)

Other stuff:
My SMW/SMAS/SMAS+W disassembly
Yoshifanatic's Discord Server: A place for fans of my stuff and/or Yoshi to chat with others.