Why LabVIEW Games?
Die-hard LabVIEW programmers may wonder why we are interested in LabVIEW games. Because games are entirely concerned with the user interface, they often provide useful techniques that can be modified for conventional development. Besides, games are more fun than most of applications we develop on a regular basis.
Here are a few to get you started:
James Stewart has developed a great LabVIEW game framework. And he's invited everyone along for the ride!
ViBOTS is a virtual robot tournament -- and best of all, it's built using 100% LabVIEW. You are invited to program your own virtual robots and compete against other wireworkers from around the globe. Winning robots prevail and the losers are eliminated. The names of the wire-masters responsible for the winning robots are posted in the on-line tornament listings.
Very cool concept and implementation!
Dominic Lavoie's Laser Invasion masterfully demonstrates LabVIEW's gaming potential. Borrowing from such arcade classics as "MC", "Space Invaders", and others, Dominic shows what is possible when your LabVIEW chops are up to the task.
'It all started with a simple question, "What would it be like to write a game using LabVIEW?" ...
LabVIEW for Windows - 1.4MB .zip archive
LabVIEW for Mac - 1.8MB .bin-hqx archive
Download the compiled application files:
Windows - 740KB .zip archive
Mac - 320KB .bin-hqx archive
LabVIEW 6.02 Run-time Engine - available from NI.COM:
David Thomson's Game of Life
David Thomson, from Original Code Consulting has posted a Game of Life on his web site.
Visit David's Original Code web site for this game and other interesting VIs, or download the game directly here.
Searching for "Game" on the NI Developer Zone produced the following links:
CIT Engineering also has a few interesting LabVIEW game examples
A game called LabTRIS is available from LabTRIS.org