A 2D Windows-based game. You can construct various buildings, roads, destroy them, earn money through monthly taxes, scroll around the terrain.... all like a professional strategy game! inspired from my favorite dos-based game Transport Tycoon Deluxe by Chris Sawyer, Micropose. Graphics are drawn on the basis of flicker-free drawing concept. Great frame rate. Ive also made support for full-screen mode. Actually in Full-Screen mode, the game switches the screen resolution to 640x480 size so it wont have to stretch the graphics. Anywayz.. contains load and loads of stuff which i cant even explain here. Ive got some great great stuff for amateur programmers. I was planning to make a proper game out of it but the frame rate didnt supported enough and im no good at directx so i kept the game only to a little coding demonstration. Try it out dudes!!! plz vote.. means very much to me! .... IMPORTANT: Please please dont forget to read the README.TXT file first to see the recommended system requirements for this game. [UPDATIONS]: Load/Save map, better framerate, new effect on selecting buildings.
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Hey! This is pretty good! It has a nice professional feel too it. Excellenct use of custom controls! Smooth scrolling too. This would be a good project to get some inspiration from. I'd love to see this developed further. I'll give you 5 for your use of custom controls. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Pretty good... something like Sim3000... I Liked it... I think I am gonna be addicted to it just like SIM3000... waiting for a 3D version too. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
I would love to create a complete 3D game out of it, but Im pretty bad at maths :D so cant do much in DirectX. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Minor Update: Ive now added more mouse cursors to the right-click scrolling. Now it looks really cool! And ive fixed another thing which ive mentioned in the UPDATES.TXT file. :) Thanks for all the support and votes ppl! (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Excellent work. I love the entire feel of the game. The mini windows are great. The animations are cool. Can't wait to see the next version. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
12/3/2004 2:32:33 AM:
nice one. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
i have the roads, vehicles, airplanes, airport, etc. all ready.. but framerate is getting too low. if you guys still want it i can add it :) just say YE! (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
can anyone explain this to me... i thought lower resolution and fullscreen mode will enhance the framerate, .. its making it even slower. why is this? (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Excellent game from what I saw of it. If you wanna add the other stuff but keep the frame rate consider switching from bitblt to directx and getting rid of the timers and going with a loop. Other than that very nice job. 5 globes :) (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Great starting point for a game! Like Ackbar you will eventually need to move to directx especially when you start animating buildings and such. A good update would be to allow adding of buildings larger than 1 tile (64 pixels). (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Maybe I could help out in the DX department. I have quite a lot of experience there and I'm very good at math. When you switch over to DX, the framerate will sky rocket making it very easy to add those roads, vehicles, planes, etc. You would have to create 3D objects in order to use DX3D, but for now you could just use DX's 2D capabilities (much faster than VB) Let me know what you think. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
UPDATE IS HERE!!!!!!!! Now roads, sound effects, more buildings, etc. is available! Enjoy pscode.com!! Read the UPDATES.TXT for complete info. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
This is amazing, it reminds me of the Sim City games.. I cannot wait for the next version.. I hope you win the superior coding contest with this. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
is it possible to make it available in vb5 cos me and my mates wanna download it but we're stuck with vb5 (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
rhys cartlidge: download the code. open the CityBuilder.vbp in notepad, and remove the line "Retained=0". It should make it to open in vb5. but if it doesnt run, means i have some vb6 functions in my code. you can search the net for their vb5 substitutes. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Alas! I killed the framerate! I shot it right in the heart!! The framerate drops dead by the time you build anything near the city you see in the screenshot. Im switchin to DX!!! (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Nice works, congratulations. But i test it in Win98 and it has memory lack, and of course only run a few seconds. I also test it in windows xp like you recomend and it runs very well. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
yes i just found that out by myself too. its not working in win98. i think bitblt and transparentblt are causing a problem. anyways.. enjoy in xp. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
nice, u should make a hp and do not let all get the source :P maby u can sell it on ebay make own cover and join ea-games? hehe :P (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Wow dude! your game is excellent and it's great that you are sharing it with us... 5 stars from here... (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
By far the most visually impressive city game I've seen in VB - but importantly the interface & gameflow are good as well. This is much more than just a graphics demo (which is all so many VB games seem to be). Well done & I hope you enjoy developing it further. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
It didn't work, something with the WMP control... but anyway, it looks very nice. This message just to encourage you to port it to DirectX or OpenGl. Don't think it's hard because it is not !
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I use to play transport tycoon deluxe heaps... But do you really need to show the income obove each building? Seems a bit pointless? You just need something in the status bar to show how much money is going in monthly and how much is going out... (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Well I was making another update for City Builder in which I had set the option to not to show the money transactions (which would increase framerate). But I didnt bother uploading the updated version.. im working on DX right now. :) (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
I want to help you develop this game further. Few years ago I have done simmilar project. Mail me at mario.danic@gmail.com (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Great game! I'll be happy to offer help in this project. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
1/31/2005 2:47:49 PM:
bah im getting so many errors while trying to compile in the coding in VB 6 but screen shot looks cool and from others reviews ill give you 5 (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
2/4/2005 8:21:43 AM:
Its mind blowing great work and i really enjoyed to explorer (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Looks good but maybe you can give us a tutorial on making your project flicker free that would be very interesting! (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Drawing in windows normally flickers.. the 'flicker free' drawing concept is the work around for it. Look in vbAccelerator.com for flicker free drawing information. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
The first problem I am running into I belive is because I dont have WMP 9. I am running the one that came factory with XP. After all the bad stuff I have herd people say about the newer media players containing adware & spyware I dont think I want to update my WMP. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
real nice game needs more devolpment on it though and it reminds me alot of sim city continue to work on this and add more things to build stuff like that (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
I am using windows 2000 and have notice that the dll msjro is missing,for people with this problem, download it here http://www.dlldump.com/download-dll-files_new.php/dllfiles/M/msjro.dll/2.81.1117.0/downl oad.html (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
That file isnt needed actually. I added the ability to compact the database (map file) size if it gets too large, but I removed the compacting code.. so msjro.dll is not needed actually. Just remove it from the refrences. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
to the other email me on marcus_wal@hotmail.com as i have code for your game(ive got cops,robbers,airships,planes...etc) (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
4/29/2005 6:12:18 AM:
it's look good (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
At the startup I receive a message that says that wmp.dll not found. (on Win 98) I think that that means "Windows Media Player". And I think it's the 9th version. But your code is so big! And I'm a fan of Transport Tycoon Deluxe! I keep thinking wether I should give you a vote... (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
I have written in the Requirements section of README.TXT that this code is built on Windows Media Player 9 Series. But I think it 'should' also work in WMP 8. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
This code is awesome ! (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
5/30/2005 10:27:12 AM:
When i load the project i get the error: Path not found: 'data\resources.res' Then I get lots of errors when i press "start" on the splash screen. Errors during load: refer to ...\line.log for details. I get this about 10 times. Then after pressing OK, i get - Resource with identifier '101' not found. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
It's really the best effect I ever seen in VB. Just don't know the latest version. Hope you can continue! (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
This is amazing man :), and I still play Transport tycoon, but now it's Open TTD, a C++ clone, its good, you should try it :) good programming and it even looks like trans.tycoon :) (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Im a good player of OpenTTD :) this game has taken my mind away. I just play a lot. Its been years ive been playing OTT/TTD game! its never enough. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
this system is working only in xp???? so worse,, (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
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