Links & References

This sections shows a list of all resources used to create the Worst Case Scenario. The list consists of:

• Application software
• Game theory
• Code snippets
• Code libraries
• Contributors

Application software

For the creation of the Worst Case Scenarion program we used the following application programs:

• Corel Draw

  Vector drawing program. Used for the creation of the main logo.

• Paint Shop Pro

  Bitmap editor. Used for the main logo. All bitmaps in this program have been designed with PSP.

• DJGPP & Rhide

  C/C++ compiler. Used for the creation (compilation) of the code.

• DevC++ (based on MingW32)

  C/C++ compiler. Used as secondary compiler for testing platform independency of the source code.

• Persistence of Vision

  Raytracer. Used for the creation of 3D animations.

• Microsoft Powerpoint

  Presentation software, but in this case used to develop story-line for 3D animations.

• ArgoUML

  UML designer. Used for creation and development of class diagrams.

• 1st Page 2000

  HTML editor. Used for ... this page. Also all other web-documents have been created with it.

• WinCVS

  CVS client. Enables us to share our "work in progress" sourcecode.

• sourceforge.org

  Project management tool. This web-site offers a complete suite of project management tools. Excellent resource!

• More to come ...

  This list is still growing.

Game theory

During the program development we regularly consulted publicly available resources. Below is a list if the most important resources:

• Smart Moves: Intelligent Pathfinding

  By Bryan Stout: http://www.gamasutra.com/features/programming/080197/pathfinding.htm

• Steering Behaviours for Autonomous Characters

  By Craig Reynolds: http://www.red32.com/cwr/steer

• Coordinated Unit Movement

  By ???: http://www.gamasutra.com/features/game_design/19990122/movement_01.htm

• Implementing Coordinated Movement

  By ???: http://www.gamasutra.com/features/game_design/19990129/implementing_01.htm

• Interaction with Groups of Autonomous Characters

  By Craig Reynolds: http://www.red3d.com/cwr/papers/2000/pip.html

• Tile based games

  By Greg Taylor: ???

• Game Design

  By Amit J Patel: ???

• Usenet:comp.ai.games

  A good news-group for discussing AI matters.

• Usenet:comp.os.msdos.djgpp

  A good news-group for when a seemlessly unsolvable software bug is nagging you. Warning: All bugs that you think are originated by the compiler are always tracable to your code.

Code snippets

Code libraries

When working on a large project like the Worst Case Scenario it is not possible to deal with every detail that computers have to offer. Very early in this project I realised that it could only be realised by re-using as much as possible of earlier work, freely available on the web.

• Allegro

  Generic game library. A very good game library. Actually, reading the manual with this library made me believe that my project might become a reality.

• SDL

  Generic game library. A library that has a lot in common with Allegro (when looking at the target-group). SDL does not support plain MSDOS programs. On the otherhand it does support multi-threaded programs, an area where Allegro is not so strong.
  Currently we use Allegro, but it would be nice to have our Allegro-wrapper support SDL also.

• STL

  The standard template library, a standard part of the GCC based compilers, including DJGPP and DevC++.

• www.meanrabbit.com

  A valuable source for soundeffects.

Contributors

At this place we also want to mention some of the people who where not project members but who contributed to this project in one way or another.

• Martien Philipsen

  Martien was the driving force behind the Worst Case Scenario before it was transferred to the web. He made real world maps, miniatures and organised most of the playtesting.
  At the very beginning of this project he also created a lot of the 2D bitmap graphics, used in version one of this game.

• Roy Hendriks

  Contributed sound-effects.