It's May, QB Express #28 is here!
This issue is full of wonderful things, like SEVEN tutorials and FIVE articles, all about QBasic and FreeBasic.
anonymous1337 teaches us about Game Camera Systems; Imortis Inglorian brings us "Bitflags and You"; Kiyote Wolf gives us the rundown on his method of "Amazing Cheap Texturemapping"; Lachie Dazdarian contemplates the eternal struggle of "The Game Developer versus the Programmer"; Mac gives us the skinny on the QBasic.com forums; notthecheatr starts his series on "Scripting Solutions for Games" with "Part I: Rolling your own interpreter"; and anonymous1337 talks to us "About Design."
It's a fun-filled, jam-packed issue. Read it all in QB Express #28!
QB Express #28
Very good issue again!
I thought anonymous1337 clone game article was very good. It's pretty much how i do any game, just take away the graphics and break it down to its most basic. Once the core elements of control, collision and map drawing are sorted, you have the basics of pretty much any game.
Slightly related, i'm currently doing a java version of my chuckie egg game purely because it feature a moving player, things to collect and collision. Like the FB version, once it is done, a quick change of graphics and it is a new game.
Thinking up a unique element for a game though is usually the tricky part...
I thought anonymous1337 clone game article was very good. It's pretty much how i do any game, just take away the graphics and break it down to its most basic. Once the core elements of control, collision and map drawing are sorted, you have the basics of pretty much any game.
Slightly related, i'm currently doing a java version of my chuckie egg game purely because it feature a moving player, things to collect and collision. Like the FB version, once it is done, a quick change of graphics and it is a new game.
Thinking up a unique element for a game though is usually the tricky part...
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Thank you for finding the time to release this. I've been meaning to write something, but have been waiting for QBE's release this month to do so...
@ssjx:
I'm beginning to hate everything I write about about game play and fun in games, because there's just so much to say. You single out one topic and you end up leaving out the rest.
At one point in time, disassembling and designing game mechanics is necessary. Defining the parts that assemble a game, however, is more difficult. Games are odd, dual-compositions between the player and game itself.
Game Play is not just simple mechanics such as the simple chasing puzzles, or the goals which must be reached. Timing, Pace, Learning Curve, Choice, Ambiance, I could go on... These are all mechanics which game developers must look at when creating not only something which can be played, but something which can be experienced.
@ssjx:
I'm beginning to hate everything I write about about game play and fun in games, because there's just so much to say. You single out one topic and you end up leaving out the rest.
At one point in time, disassembling and designing game mechanics is necessary. Defining the parts that assemble a game, however, is more difficult. Games are odd, dual-compositions between the player and game itself.
Game Play is not just simple mechanics such as the simple chasing puzzles, or the goals which must be reached. Timing, Pace, Learning Curve, Choice, Ambiance, I could go on... These are all mechanics which game developers must look at when creating not only something which can be played, but something which can be experienced.
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