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Kevin Picone
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Posted: 26th Jun 2007 07:48 Edited at: 3rd Sep 2010 17:28
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Still Looking for Tutorial Authors

Currently (as always) I'm swapped with work on, therefore I'm looking for anybody who is interested in writing/porting some tutorials for PlayBasic. In particular tutorials focusing upon creating particular styles of games.

Interested ?


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Shadow heart
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Posted: 26th Jun 2007 13:00
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sorry i am not fam. with playbasic, but if u need any graphic tutorials i can help.

to the ones thats trapped inside of you, this is it!!
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Kevin Picone
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Posted: 28th Jun 2007 07:26 Edited at: 3rd Sep 2010 17:29
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Sorry, not a fan of your artwork.


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Phaelax
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I could perhaps do a few simple ones, pacman, breakout, minesweeper. But I haven't looked at PlayBasic since you first released it, so I'd have to familiarize myself with the code.
Is there a 30 day demo available?


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indi
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Kevin, I was thinking of using a movie that loops in the background for a 2d shooter, but don't really have the time to develop it.

This movie is a render from maya, the premise was that you flew around the large organic object as if is was a round map instead of side scrolling

Anyway if its useful, feel free to deploy it, provided you can use movies in the background etc.

Ill post a smaller one for now and we can work out how to get a higher one later if it works for you.

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Kevin Picone
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Posted: 6th Jul 2007 07:37 Edited at: 3rd Sep 2010 17:30
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Indi,

The file doesn't play here.



Phaelax,

Quote: "I could perhaps do a few simple ones, pacman, breakout, minesweeper. "


Anything you contribute would certainly be appreciated. It wouldn't be difficult make them dual purpose for the most part anyway. You could write a 2D DB versions if you're more comfortable and i'll port them.


Quote: "But I haven't looked at PlayBasic since you first released
it, so I'd have to familiarize myself with the code. "


That's possibly an advantage.. Ideally it'd be nice to keeps them as simple as possible, focusing more on how the game mechanics work, rather rather here's some pretty effect, or how to do a clever trick.


Quote: "Is there a 30 day demo available? "


Nope, there's a unlimited FREE version available though


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Shadow heart
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Quote: "Sorry not a fan of your artwork."


what exactly have u even seen?

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indi
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you need quicktime and or VLC to play it.
h264 codec.

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Van B
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Quote: "sorry i am not fam. with playbasic"


Think he was meaning ''Sorry I am not familiar with playbasic''


Good guy, Good guy, Wan...
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Kevin Picone
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Posted: 12th Jul 2007 09:37 Edited at: 3rd Sep 2010 17:34
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PlayBasic V1.64L Unlimited FREE Version is Available

This release represents a massive overhaul of the previous PlayBASIC V1.62 demo. The V1.62c package not only includes the latest bug fixes and optimizations, but new cross referenced help files and the newly updated example pack. (Including the new Axis demo )

Have fun!

Edited Sep,2010 - The above is obsolette, today's demo has some much more....


Download
Url: www.PlayBasic.com


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Shadow heart
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Posted: 12th Jul 2007 11:19
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Quote: "Think he was meaning ''Sorry I am not familiar with playbasic''"

haha thats what i ment.

Kevin Picone did u think i said i'm not a fan of playbasic cause i said i'm not familiar wit it lolz.

haha lets rock this world.
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What I think it was, because you use the abbreviation fam. and it could have looked like 'fan' and therefore a mix up and I guess he felt you made an unnecessary point and responded with one.

Anyway, I like writing tutorials, though I've not even glanced at play basic, give me a few of sample codes, a demo and I'll see what I can do. Plus what sort of thing do you want?

Also, I'd note it'll take me a week to respond back to you as I am away as of 11pm tonight.

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Kevin Picone
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Posted: 15th Aug 2007 08:58 Edited at: 3rd Sep 2010 17:36
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Quote: " Anyway, I like writing tutorials, though I've not even glanced at play basic, give me a few of sample codes, a demo and I'll see what I can do."


The FREE version comes with a large selection of help files & Examples. If you're familiar with DB/DBpro then it's pretty similar. On the surface at least.

Download PlayBasic Learning Edition


Quote: " Plus what sort of thing do you want?"


It's the real nuts and bolts stuff that people seem to have the biggest problems with. you know all the boring programming principals stuff.. Most of which is universal, so it'd easy to offer PB and DB versions. So some ideas for tutorials tidbit could cover bare bones game mechanics separately. Controlling a player, bullets, collision / reaction, mapping, alien AI ideas, movement patterns could be topics worth covering etc etc. Or perhaps create a walk through on how to recreate a simple version of a retro arcade. There's a couple of these already written for stuff like Pong and Space Invaders.

Up to you really.


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