Learn How to make Angry Birds

http://www.wildbunny.co.uk/blog/2011/05/12/how-to-make-angry-birds-part-1/

by neinsun • 15 years ago

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5hoom• 15 years ago

This is great, the idea of deconstructing well known games as a teaching method is pretty cool.

Knowing the effect that you are hoping to achieve while reading the code really helps in understanding the implementation.

Very nice, keep them coming :)

swah• 15 years ago

Not games but anything. I'd love to read a "write nginx" or "write lua" :)

evanwalsh• 15 years ago

Have you seen this? http://createyourproglang.com/

missing_cipher• 15 years ago

Slightly on a tangent, but some may find this interesting. Super Mario World Camera Logic Review: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCIMPYM0AQg

dangero• 15 years ago

Wow that was really interesting.

The thing I found most surprising was at the end when he was able to go off the screen by going backwards which very much seems like a bug in their algorithm, but maybe "it's a feature".

That game definitely has good camera management though. I never sat down and thought about how elaborate their scheme was.

slig• 15 years ago

You might be also interested in this Game Art for a similar game, under a CC license: http://www.vickiwenderlich.com/2011/07/game-art-squirrel-att...

eogas• 15 years ago

This guy has some other really great articles if you search around his blog a bit. Here's few I have bookmarked.

http://www.wildbunny.co.uk/blog/2011/04/06/physics-engines-f...

http://www.wildbunny.co.uk/blog/2011/04/20/collision-detecti...

http://www.wildbunny.co.uk/blog/2011/03/25/speculative-conta...

mckoss• 15 years ago

Too bad this is flash based. An html5 version would have been more interesting to me.

melling• 15 years ago

Maybe some ambitious person could do an HTML5 or Android version and put it on github?

nphase• 15 years ago

Let us know when you've built it!

doomlaser2• 15 years ago

Why? HTML5 isn't a very good platform for building games.

andrewl-hn• 15 years ago

Why do you say so? Aside from sound (HTML5 audio is a poor fit for in-game sounds) what is not good about it? Especially with canvas getting hardware accelerated in IE9, Firefox and Chrome and WebGL getting ground in more browsers (Chrome, Firefox and now Opera Alpha).

EDIT: to be clear, it's genuine question, I'm really interested in high-performant graphics in HTML5.

ecounysis• 15 years ago

throw rocks at them

petpixie• 15 years ago

...feed them alka seltzer?

magicseth• 15 years ago

This is the first time I've seen the free tutorial with the option to buy the source and assets. I think this is a very interesting way to solve the problem of monetizing while still allowing uncrippled content.

What is interesting to me is that the concepts in the article are arguably more valuable the sample code itself. But by charging for the shallower of the two assets, you end up charging the people who are more likely to pay in the first place.

wildbunny• 15 years ago

Thanks for the feedback, guys :) Didn't notice I'd been posted on here until now...

There is a new article in the works as well; stay tuned :)

aab1d2• 15 years ago

Awesome tutorial. This is the first time I have seen a tutorial that actually goes end-to-end.

aab1d2• 15 years ago

And pretty cool that he has chosen an already existing game here. Pretty smooth!

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