Snakes and Ladders Files

Snake Ladder by woomar

This is an implementaion of the famous Snake Ladders board game known as "Gyan chauper"
in India and "Chutes and Ladders" in the United States , in arabic its called "ÇáÓáã æÇáÍíÉ".

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Game info:

Players : 2 players (the board game can be up to 4 AFAIK)

Die : one (could be two in the board version)

Boards :
	1-Ready Boards (3 of them)
	2-Custom Boards (randomize snake and ladders position with different templates)

Mode : 
	1-Player vs Player.
	2-Player vs CPU.

Extras :
	1-Three different Backgrounds
	2-Player manager (edit name,delete player,add player ...etc)

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Below info is for Developers :

Developed using : Visual Basic 6.

External Libraries :
	1-Bitblt
	2-sndplay

Database : Simple data control.

Ram usage : about 174mb (all assets are loaded at one time)

Positioning Mechanism : every snake , ladder , the player's piece has its own image/animation
images that are placed in offsets relative to the main board , some mechansim were used to 
handle this (you will see it in the code) , I have it working on (1360x768) and (1024x768) resolution
with no problem.

Where was the bitblt used ? It was used only in the board animation and the background , other stuff used the "picture"
attribute which means load all the way from the HDD , which may(or must actually) cause some flickering.

Summary of operations that has been used :
	1-Drawing (bitblt)
	2-Playing Sounds (sndplay)
	3-Handling files (open and close)
	4-Simple Database operations through the Database Control.
	5-Dynamic positioning.


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Very Important Note(s):
	1-some of the sound effects that have been used , I forgot where did I get them from but I am
	sure that when I used the search engines I used words like "Free license sound effects".
	2-The main board picture , the pieces and the wood texture were also downloaded through search engines.

So , I don't own the :
	1-Main board picture (the custom ones that i made are edited from the original one)
	2-Sounds .
	3-Player's pieces.
	4-Wood texture.