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/**************************************************************
* _____ __ _____ *
* / _ \ | | ____ ___ ___ / | | *
* / /_\ \ | | _/ __ \ \ \/ / / | |_ *
* / | \| |__\ ___/ > < / ^ / *
* \____|__ /|____/ \___ >/__/\_ \ \____ | *
* \/ \/ \/ |__| *
* *
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* (c) Free Lunch Design 2003 *
* Written by Johan Peitz *
* http://www.freelunchdesign.com *
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* This source code is released under the The GNU *
* General Public License (GPL). Please refer to the *
* document license.txt in the source directory or *
* http://www.gnu.org for license information. *
**************************************************************/
INTRODUCTION
Nine times out of ten when I start to write a game, I have planned to make a
small game. Nine times out of ten, the game grows halfway through the code into
something to big for the code to hold. Usually at this point, I'm to lazy to
refactor the code so that it can handle the scaling. Instead I hack. Hacking
is fun, but not very good practice. Still, if it looks right on the screen,
then it is right. Right? :)
Anyway, Alex4 started as a small game and grew from there. Hence, the code
isn't exactly great at some places. Still I think it's quite ok in most places.
What I'm trying to say is that if you're going to learn from this code, don't
take up the bad parts, and don't look at it as the only way. It's just my way.
LICENSE
Alex the Allegator 4 is a small platform game, created to match the retro style
of Nintendo GameBoy games. If is Copyright (C) Johan Peitz, Free Lunch Design.
This source code is free; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
version.
This source code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple
Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
COMPILING
If you're not content with just reading the code and want to compile it, here's
how. First you need the libraries that Alex4 uses. Allegro and DUMB, get them
on their web sites:
http://alleg.sf.net and http://dumb.sf.net
How to install and configure the libraries should be covered in the help files
that comes with the download of each library.
There, having installed libraries, just compile all the source files. Make sure
that you maintain the directory structure so that the c-files can find the
h-files that they need (mostly in the data/ directory).
If you have any question I suggest that you visit the Free Lunch Design forum,
see below. Please bear in mind that this code is supplied for learning and it
is can not be supported (by Free Lunch Design) in any way.
AUTHORS AND CONTACT
Free Lunch Design is an independent game developer from Sweden. Our aim is to
create small, high quality games, where gameplay is in focus.
Alex the Allegator 4 was written and designed by Johan Peitz. Johan Peitz also
drew the graphics. The fabulous music was composed by Anders Svensson who also
created the sound effects.
Visit us on the web:
http://www.freelunchdesign.com
If you have comments, bug reports, or just want to ask something you can
contact Free Lunch Design by e-mail. We do however get a lot of mail and it
might take a while before we answer, so if you have a question please check
the online faqs and forums first.
E-Mail: info (at) freelunchdesign (dot) com
If you want to support Free Lunch Design in monetary ways, please enter our
web site (see above) and click our sponsors a few times. You can also donate
money from the site via PayPal.
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