Talk Binary » Puzzles http://talkbinary.com Programming Resources, Technology, Computers Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:22:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Piranha Plant, Wario, and Coin Gamehttp://talkbinary.com/programming/opengl/piranha-plant-wario-and-coin-game/ http://talkbinary.com/programming/opengl/piranha-plant-wario-and-coin-game/#comments Tue, 12 Aug 2008 02:06:07 +0000 Diego http://talkbinary.com/?p=560 If you have been following the Talk Binary posts, you might remember that Diego made a post about the
Fox, Sheep, and Cabbage Game. Well, in the last two weeks I have been developing a spin off to that same game. It’s called Piranha Plant, Wario, and Coin Game. The logic of the game is easy. Don’t leave the Piranha Plant with Wario and don’t leave Wario with the Coin.

Here is a screen shot of the main menu:


My main incentive for making this game was to demonstrate the use of OpenGL and SDL on Windows. For that reason both the Compiled game and Source code will be available for download. With it you can easily edit images, and make your own changes to it. While doing so we encourage you to ask question in our forums as well as post your modifications. I hope everyone enjoys this! You can find the source code in our forums in our OpenGL board.

Instructions on how to play the game:

Click a selection block to select a character to go onto the floater.
Hit Spacebar to toggle between Selection mode and Go! mode.
When in Go! mode use Left click to move floater Right and Right click to move floater Left.

That is pretty much it.

Here is the link to the game & source code, Enjoy!
Piranha Plant, Wario, and Coin Game
Piranha Plant, Wario, and Coin Game Source Code

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Sometimes, for professors to get students understand the basics of come complex algorithms, we are presented with simple games in order to be able to understand why efficiency plays a big role. In other words, it might take us a long time to solve it once, but after that, it might take us a significantly shorter amount of time. (Or do they do this merely to help our ego?)

The Fox, Sheep, and Cabbage Puzzle

I introduce you to this very famous puzzle. Can you solve it? You simply need to cross the fox, sheep, and cabbage across the river but may only take one at a time across!

Play the game here!

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