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DS development > Coding technique - titlepage

#166980 - intel3 - Wed Feb 25, 2009 10:03 am

Hi,

I am trying to make a title page as the game start.

I want to upper screen's title to be animated and I want the bottom screen to have words that can be highlighted by d-pad.

Pretty much a typical look for any game.

I am new to game development. What is the approach/design I should understand and look into in order to achieve this?

Thanks,

#166992 - Miked0801 - Wed Feb 25, 2009 5:48 pm

What tools are you starting with?

Upper title animated can be done by displaying a different Bmp per game loop, different sprite frame, different palettes, or all 3.

Highlite via dpad the same way, though changing palettes is probably the easiest for that.

#166996 - gauauu - Wed Feb 25, 2009 6:36 pm

And if what Mike said didn't make sense or didn't seem helpful, then you need to go back and read some general tutorials on GBA/DS programming. Most of us recommend TONC -- even though it's for GBA programming, it's similar enough to be quite helpful.

Once you have the general techniques for GBA/DS programming down, a title screen should come fairly easily.