Comments on: Arinoid – an Arkanoid clone

By: rhelmer’s blog » Breakout!

rhelmer’s blog » Breakout! — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:46:40 +0000

[...] and made a really dumb Sprite class, and stole some reasonable “breakout physics” from this tutorial to make this Breakout clone in [...]

By: Python Screencast: Using Sprite Sheets and Drawing the Background :: Tech Videos, Screencasts, Tutorials, Webinars, Techtalks, Tutorials

Sat, 06 Jan 2007 02:36:21 +0000

[...] Arinoid post [...]

By: Game Programming Video Tutorials at scriptedfun.com » Arinoid with Sound

Game Programming Video Tutorials at scriptedfun.com » Arinoid with Sound — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 12:30:14 +0000

[...] Arinoid now has sound! I think that sound plays a very important role in the overall game experience, and I hope that you will all like this minor update. [...]

By: scriptedfun.com » Blog Archive » 1945

scriptedfun.com » Blog Archive » 1945 — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 13:35:20 +0000

[...] 1945 is a clone of the popular vertical scrolling shooter 1942. Again, the graphics in the game were taken from the Spritelib by Ari Feldman. This game will serve as the basis for the screencasts once we finish Arinoid. The screencasts will probably begin with screencast 6. In the meantime, I am hoping that you’ll find the source code useful, and just leave a comment on the site if you have any questions . I posted this in advance because one of the site’s readers needed some help with animations, which this game has but Arinoid doesn’t. Aside from animations, this game also features a scrolling background. [...]

By: scriptedfun.com » Blog Archive » Screencast #2 - Using Sprite Sheets and Drawing the Background

Mon, 19 Jun 2006 09:41:42 +0000

[...] To run the code for this screencast, you will need to have a data subdirectory containing the Arinoid sprite sheet file. You can easily fulfill this requirement by downloading the arinoid source from the post on Arinoid. Also, this will be needed for most, if not all, of the upcoming screencasts. [...]

By: Chuck

Chuck — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 13:42:33 +0000

Hi Johan! Thanks for pointing that out as well – I’ve fixed the link from the pygame site . I just have to say that this is an early version and hopefully, it will be improved after the screencasts for it are done. I’d love to hear everyone’s ideas!

By: Johan Svensson

Johan Svensson — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 02:46:15 +0000

Luckily, I found the game through your site, but the direct link from pygame.org is broken. I’ll try the game now. Hope it will bring me nostalgic memories.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 13:23:29 +0000

Thank you so much for pointing that out, jml! Link fixed

By: jml

jml — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 13:00:05 +0000

I got a 404 with “arinoid source” :

Not Found
The requested URL /arinoid.zip was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.