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I am mainly trying to modernize the code. Both in terms of C++ features, and features (mainly trying not to lock the game in 640x480, adding a few shaders and stuff).

As the code is kinda old, there's a lot of revamping to do, and a lot of optimizations done back in the days shouldn't be relevant anymore. The code contains a FUCKTON of global variables, to the point where I'm in awe that somehow the game works flawlessly. The quantity of global variables declared and handled all over the places is truly unmanageable.

As a french, I can work my way through the code, and although I'll be translating comments as I skim through it, there are some really funny gems that I'd rather not translate as they'd break the stupidity that made Blip'n Blop famous. I would rather have a separate lexicon for the fellas that can't french.

This project is HUGE for two students. Kudos to you guys, it's a LOT of work, and even if the quality is, uh, debatable, the game actually works flawlessly and you undeniably got the work done. I can hardly believe every single error has been handled, even memory allocation failures, so that the game wouldn't crash (some, including me, would say that it's easier for a developper to handle a crash, rather than propagating / circumventing silently an error that would still disallow the gamer to properly play the game). Congrats and thanks!

Lexicon

• Couille: testicle. That's what the players are, and the code is in couille.{cpp,h}
• schnuff: "thing". It's not french, it's a made up word, don't look at me like that
• snuf: Smurf?
• Tête de turc: a person that gets all the hate. In the game engine, the enemies are fighting one of the two couilles at a time, who is then called "la tête de turc". See Game::tete_turc

When I laughed

• "couille" in the code
• "schnuff"
• Tête de turc. That's kinda informal and slang.
• SuperListe (=AwesomeList). And it's actually really not awesome, it's a void* based linked list with an embedded STATEFUL iterator. I'm sad I have to remove it to use actual vectors.
• SuperListe::vide_porc: empty (like a?) pork, meaning "in an unclean way". IDK why, the code is exactly the same as the unporked version.
• SuperListe::supprime_porc: removes an element of the list without freeing its memory (ie, it's a non-owning list)
• 'Gère les messages. Eh oui, Windows pue du cul' (Handles messages. Yeah, Windows' ass stinks, nota: Ben Karaban apparently works for MS now)
• A variable is named 'glorf'.
• "Gère le scrolling avec le super buffer qui marche bizarrement sur cette merde de GeForce." (Handles scrolling with the awesome buffer that works weirdly on this shitty GeForce)
• After a failed new, in a log message: "Nani? Not enough memory???"
• "Affiche les têtes de con" (Show the fucktard' faces)
• "Destructeur -> On est pas des Brujahs..."

Significant differences

• The menus were a big pile of switch case in a single class. The pause menu and the title screen menu were just a big copy paste. I cleaned up all that. Take a look at menus/. Pause menu and title screen menu are now the same thing
• Added a "TOGGLE FULLSCREEN" option.
• Fixed a bug that prevented unix like os from playing. Some level descriptions contained path containing backslashes that failed. Now backslashes are handled.
• MusicBank has been reworked a lot
• For some reasons, there were (and still are) too many nonsensical bridges in this code. There's a Direct3D simulated API implented in SDL, a FMOD fake API implemented in SDL mixer, and a windows API implemented with Linux syscalls. I guess those came from the first revamping of the code in 2014; the developper must have thought that implementing a bridge would be easier than manipulating the code.

Blip'n Blop

This is the source code of Blip'n Blop, a free video game for the PC released in 2002. Years after the game got released, some enthusiastic programmers asked us to open source it and here we are!

A few things to keep in mind:

• this was writen when we were still students so the code quality and the (lack of) architecture can be disturbing
• the code is mostly written in a terrible mix of french and english, which should be kind of akward to read for non french speaking people (actually, it's kind of awkward even for french people! :p )
• the various editors can be quite complicated to get working because they relied on various cryptic INI files