Games Programming
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  • Yussof Mohomed

    KillerBeam - A Game in C#

    KillerBeam is a .Net implementation of the game called Laser Chess which appeared in Compute! Magazine in the early eighties.
    Yussof Mohomed Jul 17, 2007
  • Mike Gold

    Hangman Program Using C#

    Hangman was created to illustrate several features of C# including GDI+, string manipulation, array processing, using properties, as well as simple creation of objects.
    Mike Gold Jan 19, 2002
  • Mike Gold

    Brick Out in C#

    Way back, I'd say about 1981 (ok maybe not so far back!), there was a game for the Apple II called Brick Out.
    Mike Gold Sep 17, 2001
  • Paul Trott

    BattleShips Games

    This application presents a grid of 100 squares to the user. The user has thirty five attempts to find to find the computers fleet. The computer randomly positions five ships of varying sizes aroun...
    Paul Trott Apr 02, 2002
  • Mike Gold

    Considerations in Porting and Deploying a WinForms GDI+ Game to the Pocket PC

    This article describes some of the issues I came across when porting a Windows Form Game to the Pocket PC. It also describes how to deploy a Windows Mobile Application from Visual Studio 5.
    Mike Gold Jul 09, 2006
  • Mike Gold

    Eater Game in C#

    This is a simple game written in C# in which the user moves a packman like player around the form and gobbles up red dots. The object is to get all the dots in as quick a time as you can.
    Mike Gold Jul 31, 2001
  • Alex Krizhevsky

    Shisen-Sho Clone in C#

    The attached code is a clone of the KDE game Shisen-Sho using Windows Forms and GDI+.
    Alex Krizhevsky May 29, 2006
  • Danna Boneheart

    Asteroids in C#

    As my first experiment in a game design, rather than using a DirectX wrapper, I decided to explore the functionality of GDI+. GDI+ has lot of nice features to offer but performance wise it is slow...
    Danna Boneheart Apr 04, 2002
  • Jigar Desai

    Mastermind Game with Drag and Drop Functionality

    There as nice article some time ago on this site for creating mastermind game by Mike Gold. I am rewriting complete game from scratch to implement Drag and Drop feature and presentable User interfa...
    Jigar Desai May 15, 2002
  • Tony Tromp

    Nemesis-7rc1 ( Codename Deviate)

    Nemesis-7 is a full-screen 2D shoot’em up that makes use of the DirectInput, DirectSound and DirectDraw interfaces from DirectX. The player controls a spaceship which he uses to duel the computer o...
    Tony Tromp Jun 13, 2002
  • Andrew McCarter

    C#RIS : Tetris Game in C#

    I have written a Tetris clone that demonstrates how to use off-screen graphics buffering for smooth animation and utilizes a multi-dimensional array approach to designing a game grid. The classes ...
    Andrew McCarter Feb 14, 2002
  • Mike Gold

    Generating Maze using C# and .NET

    Did you ever get the feeling that cubicles were laid out with the idea that there could be no escape? (Must be I am a bit overworked these days). Today's article focuses on how to generate a maze ...
    Mike Gold Sep 25, 2002
  • Mike Gold

    Eater Game II - The Stone Maze

    This program combines the designs of the Eater Game and the Maze Generation Program to create a more challenging game, Eater Game II. In this game, you move a pacman-like character through a maze ...
    Mike Gold Oct 02, 2002
  • Prasad

    Move Grid Puzzle

    This is a console based application the user will be prompted for move such as L-Left, R-Right, U-Up, D-Down, E-Exit.
    Prasad Aug 15, 2001
  • Mike Gold

    FlashCards Language Program : How to read and save Images in a Sql Server Database using ADO.NET

    I thought it would be fun to write a simple program that displayed flashcards from a database and at the same time, show you how to read and write images to the database. This program is a simple ...
    Mike Gold Nov 09, 2001
  • Rajadurai P

    Simple Game Developed in C#

    This article contains the code for a simple game developed using csharp. This game is all about arranging the shuffled numbers in ascending order.
    Rajadurai P Sep 03, 2001
  • Shamim Ahmed

    Get the Place Game in C#

    I have written a game in C# called Get the Place.
    Shamim Ahmed Aug 14, 2001
  • Mike Gold

    Mastermind Game in C#

    This is the game of Mastermind written in C#. The game is played by clicking on a set of 4 colors and then hitting the score button. Colors can repeat themselves in this game, so be wary!
    Mike Gold Aug 10, 2001
  • John O Donnell

    Hangman: Using GDI+ in ASP.NET Applications

    This example shows how you can combine GDI+ commands on a web form.
    John O Donnell Oct 11, 2001
  • Mokhtar B

    Time Ticker2

    Microsoft had made lot of Changes for Beta2, some of the changes are old Namespace such as System.WinForms modified to System.Windows.Forms. In addition no. of new Namespaces like Microsoft.CShar...
    Mokhtar B Jul 04, 2001