TICT Game Construction Kit v0.35 (c) TI-Chess Team 2002
General Informations

Public Alpha-Version (don't distribute)

What is the TICT Game Construction Kit?

The TICT Game Construction Kit is a full featured compile-time library for TIGCC (+ a set of tools) which may be useful if you want to develop tile-based games (scrollers, RPGs etc.).

Sorrily there was no time for a real documentation yet. Check the sources of the demo applications to see how to use the GCKLIB.

Screenshots

screenshot screenshot
simple MapViewer (Demo Application) simple MapEditor (Demo Application)

Main Features

  1. full grayscale and double buffering support
  2. easy-to-use tilebased map drawing and scrolling
  3. load routine for tile files (+ a tool to generate this files on the PC)
  4. load and save routine for map files
  5. functions to map from screenspace to mapspace and from mapspace to screenspace
  6. clipped sprite drawing routines for sprites of 16x16 pixels
  7. clipped tile drawing routines for tiles of 16x16 pixels
  8. the same display size (160x100) is used for the TI-89 and TI92p to minimize porting problems
  9. simple and fast keyboard reading routine which supports 16 special keys (like GenLib) and which is independent of the calculator type
  10. provides a timecounter based on INT5
  11. provides a hardware-version independent SleepForMilliseconds() routine
  12. a simple map viewer (demo application)
  13. a simple on-calc map editor (demo application)
  14. bounding box collision detection support

Future Features

  1. pixel based collision detection support
  2. an oncalc tiles editor
  3. save routine for tile files
  4. animated sprites with predefined pathes
  5. plugable AI support
  6. support for packed TTArchives
  7. support for action events
  8. support for sprites larger than 16x16 (maybe 32x32)
  9. support for solid tiles
  10. Action-Shooter (Demo-Application)
  11. RolePlaying Demo
  12. support for counters and status display
  13. documentation for all functions of the GCK-Library
  14. different fonts and menu systems support
  15. support for compressed images
  16. video support
  17. support for dialogs and storyline
  18. PC-Tool for mapfile generation

Used and/or Useful Software and Tools

Other TIGCC compile-time Libraries

Copyright

This product may be distributed by any other website for non-commercial use only.

DISTRIBUTIONS ON ANY OTHER MEDIUM (Disc,CD-ROM,DVD etc.) are PROHIBITED without separate allowance of the author.

The author makes no representations or warranties about the suitability of the software and/or the data files, either express or implied. The author shall not be liable for any damages suffered as a result of using or distributing this software and/or data files.

You are free to re-use any part of the sourcecode in your products as long as you give credits including a reference to the TICT-HQ (http://tict.ticalc.org/).

Credits for the TICT Game Construction Kit go to:

Contact TI-Chess Team Members

For bug reports please use the TICT-Messageboard at http://pub26.ezboard.com/btichessteamhq

... and last but not least: The TI-Chess Team (TICT) Website can be found at: http://tict.ticalc.org

How to Thanx the Author?

I like to get postcards from all over the world. If you want to thank me, just send me an postcard with greetings. Thats enough.

My address is:

Thomas Nussbaumer
Heinrichstrasse 112a
A-8010 Graz
Austria

... and please: no mail bombs if one of my programs had crashed your calculator!


Thomas Nussbaumer Graz,Austria 05/02/2002 - Visit the TICT-HQ at http://tict.ticalc.org