Chapter 11 Bull and Touch

Ok so I have finally finished it, Bull and Touch. In case you are worrying as to the time it took me do not fear, I can assure you that I did not spend 4 months solid working on it. To be honest I got stuck, and got annoyed so abandoned my programming for the time being. But as it does, I got the urge to create games once again and decided to continue learning DarkBASIC Professional.


I learnt a valuable lesson in my absence and return: Never do it on long projects, because my was it hard to "Catch up" and remember what you had done, what does what and the likes. Anyhow, I am proud of the finished product, and while I admit that I was unable to create the game without certain parts being checked in the solution but I am learning! Most of the time I wrote parts and if it was not working correctly I would attempt to find out why. If that failed then I would check the solution, but after many attempts to resolve the problem myself. More often that not though the answer was not in the solution the book gave and would be a simple error that I overlooked.


I think the main issue with the games development was the fact that I did not know the concept of "Bull and Touch" which hindered my understanding of it, where as hangman, I am sure everyone knows well from their school days I know of by heart.


On another note, I hope to continue programming commonly again because this is what I want to pursue as my carrer, and having knowledge this early of programming will make my life so much easier. I will upload the finished game for anyone to take a look at, as well as the source code.


Here is a screenshot of Bull and Touch!

Simple graphics again, blame the book =P No no, sprites do not come until later! But creating this game gave me insight into the use of arrays. If you find any bugs let me know and I will "Attempt" to fix them.


Also there is a lot of unused space but that is just due to the lack of features put on there. I might return to it one day and vamp it up!


Sorry for the blurry quality, the game will be uploaded for download, Link:
Bull and Touch