CS398 - Design and Implementation of Computer Games

Software Packages

• Games code for class
  • General Pong/Arcade package in Java.
  • Updated version of the 3D Application Core from the textbook's CDROM.
• Drawing and animation
  • PaintShop Pro version 5 with Animation Shop version 1.02
    Graphics editor and animation creator (shareware evaluation version)
• 3-D Graphics
  • Povray version 3.1 for Windows
    Raycasting renderer for 3D graphical objects (free software)
  • Moray version 3.1 for Windows
    Graphical modeler for building 3D graphical objects for Povray (shareware evaluation version)
    • A short primer on getting started with Moray.
• Sound
  • GoldWave version 4.2
    Sound editor (shareware evaluation version)
• Interactive Fiction
  • Frotz interpreter to run interactive fiction compiled for the ``Z-machine''
    • For Windows
• Java
  • If you are going to use Code Warrior on a Windows machine, you need to install a Java virtual machine. I recommend installing Sun's Java Development Kit, version 1.2
  • For some reason, if you are using CodeWarrior with the Sun JDK on a Windows machine, the default ``security policy'' will not let you read any files (like the image and sound files your game needs, for example). You can use Sun's policytool to edit the security files to make things work (this file is part of the JDK). It's not entirely obvious how to use this tool, so ask for help if you need it.
• If you are going to use Code Warrior on a Macintosh, there are some bugs in many of the Java virtual machines they use. A virtual machine that appears to be relatively bug-free is Apple's MRJ version 2.1. Let me know if you need help installing it and/or setting it up to work with Code Warrior.