Black Annex: A QBasic Game for the 21st Century (2013)
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Re: Black Annex: A QBasic Game for the 21st Century (2013)
#2"The game, at the moment, requires about 2.6GHz on a single core to run good. It's just about unacceptable for a game that looks like it was made in the 90s."
Wow.
I am really curious all the things he had to write himself to make this work. I presume he's basically written his own isometric game engine and map editor from scratch in QB, which is... impressive.
I kinda wish he'd ship the code with the game... I want to see it.
Re: Black Annex: A QBasic Game for the 21st Century (2013)
#3How is this game distributed? If I remember correctly, QBasic was bundled with MS-DOS (from v6 onwards I believe) and wasn't able to produce EXE's. QuickBasic was a separate commercial version that was the able to produce .EXE's.
Re: Black Annex: A QBasic Game for the 21st Century (2013)
#4The screenshot is telling: "Framerate: 4"
Pretty mighty achievement though: no engine, no frameworks, no graphics SDK, a quirky language...
Re: Black Annex: A QBasic Game for the 21st Century (2013)
#5QBasic was the first language I dabbled in as a kid. This is absolutely insane!
Re: Black Annex: A QBasic Game for the 21st Century (2013)
#6I just found this video of it. Incredibly impressive if that is QBasic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqlveWIhCFI#
Re: Black Annex: A QBasic Game for the 21st Century (2013)
#7QBasic was the first language I dabbled in as a kid. This is absolutely insane!
Same here. I remember drawing sprites with the DATA statement in "SCREEN 13" mode and being able to move those around but never anything this crazy.
Re: Black Annex: A QBasic Game for the 21st Century (2013)
#8"The game, at the moment, requires about 2.6GHz on a single core to run good. It's just about unacceptable for a game that looks like it was made in the 90s." Wow. I am really curious all the things he had to write himself to make this work. I presume he's basically written his own isometric game engine and map editor from scratch in QB, which is... impressive. I kinda wish he'd ship the code with the game... I want…
Here is the code:
http://www.qb64.net/forum/index.php?topic=12348.0
Though it won’t compile with ordinary QB compiler.
Re: Black Annex: A QBasic Game for the 21st Century (2013)
#9QBasic was the first language I dabbled in as a kid. This is absolutely insane!
Same - I remember being in elementary school, playing nibbles or gorillas and then poking around in the source, trying to figure out what it was doing.
Re: Black Annex: A QBasic Game for the 21st Century (2013)
#10If you used QBasic to learn to program as a kid (which I did) then you might be interested in AppGameKit[1]. I would recommend it, however I must mention that I've become used to OOP and it is difficult to go back to a language that doesn't have it. So I haven't dont anything serious with AGK yet. Though there are many who have.