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Game Design Novice is a game design / programming community which teaches absolute beginners how to make games. The people who write the tutorials, articles, lists, faqs, and documentation...
About Game Design Novice
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Berzerk in One Sentence The player object must survive as long as it can in a maze filled with evil robots. Abstract Significance Berserk is an early arcade game released in 1980. It is largely...
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Complete Introduction to Game Maker Well, first off, welcome to Game Maker! If you havent done so already, you can download the lastest version of Game Maker (as of this writing, version 7.0) at...
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Interactive Story Examples and Description Description Interactive Story is a good game project for a beginner. The programming is easy, however, the hard part is thinking of a compelling (or at...
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Learning FreeBASIC Made Quick and Easy
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Textbook Programmer's Vocabulary Execute. To run code. Function. A command that tells FreeBASIC to do something. Data. Information. Things like a character's name or hit...
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Textbook Programmer's Vocabulary Data. Information. Things like a character's name or hit points. Variable. Used to hold data. String. Data that is text. Integer. Data that is a number...
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TextBook Programmer's Vocabulary Conditional statement. A line of code that makes a decision. Equality operator. Checks to see if two peices of data are the same (equal). Relational...
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Our brand spankin' new Liberty BASIC Project.
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The Prince
The Prince is a team project to make an interactive fiction game in FreeBASIC. Base Idea The player is the next in line to become the boss of a mafia organization. He doesn't know this. The mafia...
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Tic-Tac-Toe, also known as Noughts and Crosses was a popular game to be listed in books and magazines. It has been listed in various forms hundreds of times. Atari BASIC Tic-Tac-Toe Machine -...
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Tic-Tac-Toe is a set of sprites for 2D Tic-Tac-Toe games. This Tic-Tac-Toe sprite sheet is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License. If you use it, you must give credit to : The...
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Touch of the Reaper was created to make more interesting sprites for Pong-like games. The general idea behind Touch of the Reaper is that you play the Grim Reaper in a contest for souls. This...
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General sprite art tutorials. Sprite Art 101 This tutorial series will teach you the very basics of making your own sprites. Sprite Art 101 - The Direction of Light - the introductory sprite art...
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Typing Letters To I/O Window
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Unusual and Original Monsters in RPGs
Unusual and original monsters are rare in RPGs. However, at least one game series, EarthBound (Mother, if you live in Japan) has made it a point to use its own, fisher-price-on-acid monster set....
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Variables
Variables hold information about your game and the objects in it. Things like a character's name or hit points (in other words, literals). Anytime you need you need to reserve computer memory to...
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Creating Variables Unlike most forms of BASIC, PlayBasic does not use Dim to create variables. Instead, variables are created when they are first used. This is a sloppy way to manage variables, so...
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Shoot Shoot [name](shoot people) Choose Choose [object](if someone offers you the chicken or spaghetti for example) Go Go [direction](left/right/up/down) Talk Talk [name]('Talk Waiter' will talk to...
Versions of Brutus2D
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( PlayBasic 1.61+ ) WaitKey - wait for the player to press a key Syntax WaitKey Description WaitKey waits for player to press a key. This can be any key. After the player has pressed a key, the...
Web Game Builder
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Gallery of Doom Design Document and Sprites (in zip format). Sloppy Ninja Community (opens in new window) Team Code of 'Sloppy Ninja'~ No team code. (Quite yet)
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