Building Computer Games from scratch:an approach to
apply in practice advanced foundations of programming .
This page contains a selection of computer games
developed by the students of the subject Practical of Programming. The
games are part of the result of an educational experiment that was conducted in
the laboratory sessions to evaluate and compare several teaching proposals
(i.e., an attendance-based method and a game-based approach).
All the games were implemented by using the imperative
programming language MODULA-2 and the environment Top-Speed that works
under DOS operative system. In any case, the experiment is independent of the
programming language (the only requisite is that this language has to provide
support to program abstract data types and to implement independent modules).
In the following we
provide, for each of the games, a brief description of the game and a
compressed zip file that contains, the source code, available documentation
(written in Spanish) and, in most of the games, the executable file (in a minor
number of cases we do not provide the executable and you have to compile the
source code to generate it).
NOTA: if the exucutable does not work then
probably you have to recompile the source code; the reason is because possibly
the path in which you try to run the excutable does not correspond to the path
on which the source code was compiled. If you recompile the files then you will
be able to run all the games.
Here you can unload
an Evaluation Questionnaire (english version)
that we have used to evaluate the opinion of the students. This questionnaire was written in order to find out the thoughts of the
students on the teaching methodology employed. The questionnaire consisted of
28 questions about different aspects of the subject such as teaching ability of
the lecturer, material used, programme, topics explained, degree of
satisfaction, degree of motivation, and other related issues.
Depto. de Lenguajes y
Ciencias de la Computación,
Universidad de Málaga, Spain
e-mail: afdez@lcc.uma.es
- KOME-KOKOS: (Improved PACKMAN!!)This is
a good version of the well-known game: PACKMAN. IT CONTAINS THE
EXECUTABLE!! Here you have another 4 different versions for different
difficulty levels. koko2, koko3, koko4 and koko5.
Figure
- Busca-Par: Look for the correct couples!! Interesting game to check your
memory. Graphicals and audio very interesting. IT INCLUDES THE
EXECUTABLE!!
Figure 2. Test your memory by remembering
couples in the BUSCAR-PAR game
- Puzzle-Bobble: An atractive version of the classical puzzle-bobble game. IT
INCLUDES THE EXECUTABLE!!
Figure 3. This is the welcome window of
Puzzle bobble Game.
Figure 4. Playing with Puzzle Bobble
- Game-Fight: This game is a version of the game Space Impact developed to be
played on Nokia cellulars. IT INCLUDES THE EXECUTABLE!!
- Serpent: This game is based in the game NIBBLES for QBASIC. You lead a
serpent and try to avoid its death by skip obstacles and ghost that can
kill it. IT INCLUDES THE EXECUTABLE!!
- Suizider: This game can be catalogued as an
ARCADE game or even an ability game You control a magical witch that has a
magical broom that can fly. You have to avoid enemies that try to kill
you. IT INCLUDES THE EXECUTABLE!
- X_MODULA: Try to avoid that other technicias
install another less educative software in the programming laboratories
where MODULA-2 is used a programming software. SAVE MODULA-2. IT
INCLUDES THE EXECUTABLE
Figure 5. Welcome Window of X_MODULA
Figure 6. An introductory narration of the
X_MODULA game
Figure 7. Playing with X_MODULA
- Fronton: Play with the pediment and remove all the bricks from the wal. It is
interesting to see the movement of the ball and how it is had into account
the direction in which the ball moves.
- Spider Invasion: A numerous force of extraterrestial
spiders try to invade Earth. You are the selected to avoid it by using a
special weapon that can kill alien spiders before they land in Earth. IT
INCLUDES THE EXECUTABLE
Figure 8. An introductory narration of the
SPider Invasion game
Figure 9. Partsof the introductory
narration of the SPider Invasion game. Earth suffers a nuclear attack that
attracts the extraterrestial spider
Figure 10. Playing with Spider Invasion
- Martians: Typical game (old game, probably many existing students had not been
born when people played it) where a matrix of martians wants to invade
Earth and you have to avoid it by driving a nave with weapons to destrioy
martians.
- Serpent and Apples: You lead a serpent that must eat all the apples to pass to the
following level. IT INCLUDES THE EXECUTABLE!!
Figure 11. Menu for Serpiente and Apples
(Snake-Apples) Game
Figure 12. Playing with Snake-Apples Game
- Paddle: Play to a fery special TENNIS
PADDLE, there is no net and there are obstacles that limit the movement of
the ball. It is not a very good game as final product but it is curious.
- Conecta-4: Interesting game of strategy for
two players. The player that wins is that player that firstly get to put
in the same line four token of the same color. IT INCLUDES THE
EXECUTABLE!!
Figure 13. Playing with Conecta-4 Game
- The mad snaket: Try to annihilate a mad snake before this kills you by constriction.