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In this project we implemented a real-time multi-player distributed animated tank game.
This project was done during one of our lab assignments in the Technion – Israel’s Technologicl Institute.
Major game features:
- This game runs on Win32 platforms (Win95 / 98, Win NT 4 or above)
- Supports various communication methods (LAN, Internet, Dial-up, Direct cable)
- The game allows up to 4 players to take part in a game session
- The game uses graphics and animation to display the background and moving objects
- A game session is hosted on a server machine
- Each player is either a server (there’s exactly one server in each game session) or a client
- A client interacts with the server and participates in the game play
Major programming features:
- MFC based
- Heavy use of C++ features
- Uses DirectPlay
- Uses DirectSound
- Multithreaded
- Uses DIBs and the DrawDIB API (from WFW) for animations
- Synchronization
- Message packing and unpacking
- A timer mechanism – time synchronization using smoothed averages
- Automatic and random map generation
- Image manager Lists of images
- Smart queues for inter-thread messaging support
- Keyboard manager – Mapping virtual keys into maneuver sets of local tanks
- Animated dialog buttons
- Animation controls
Download demo project executable – 3785 KB
