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  Last Updated: 16th,Sep,2012

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Screen

• Changing Screen Styles (in windowed mode)

• Full Screen Windowed Mode

• Retrieving a list of all supported screen modes

• Screen/Image Direct Memory Access

• Screen To Front

• Setting Playbasic Screen Windows Icon

   


Game Maths & Game Physics  
 

• Bouncing Ball (Gravity)

• Moving a fixed distance towards a target

• Moving Object Between Two points

• Moving Platforms

• Moving a character/object in any given direction

• Percent inside a range

• Line Intersect Circle (Ray intersection)

• Calc Ray Reflections

• Get Decimal places

• Fixed Point library

• Get Sign Bit from Integer

• Using Sin/Cos to make an object oribit

• Check If a point is inside a box/rect region (Manual PointInBox)

• Optimization Ideas - Manually Finding The Closest Object

• Spanned Jump

• Simple Rope Demo

    
    
 


Arrays / Lists / Types
 Lists
 

• Type List Example

• Linked List of Typed Pointers

• Generic BaseList

• Manual Link List Control

 Sorting
 

• Bubble Sort Typed (Character) Array

• RAddix Sort

• Better Bubble Sorting

• Quick Sort Typed Arrays

 Misc
 

• Array Allocation Management Examples

• Passing Arrays into functions by Reference

• Load TextFiles To String Array

• Type Collections / Inheritance

• Get Array Pointer

• Load & save Integer Arrays

• UNDim all arrays

• Dynamic Array Allocation

• Swapping Typed Cells In Arrays

• Rotate 2D Arrays

Strings / Text / Parsing
 

• Parse Properties from a tag (XML)

• Checking e-mail address syntax in PB

• Trim Right Word

• PackedBin - Bin$() replacement

• Split To Array On Word

• Convert RGB colours to/from Delimited Strings

• Dictionary Searching

• UFF - poor man's XML

• Quines(self-reproducing code)

• Formating Floating Point Numbers

• Word Wrap - A Smart Word Wrap

• FindChr - Find the next occurrence of a character within a string

 
 

• Convert Forum Posts To Html(limited)

 
 

• Load File To String & Save String As File

 
 

• Encrypt Strings  / Simple Game Data Protection

 




Programming Concepts

• Local Variables

• Job Processing

• Manual Type Caching

• Dynamically Creating Object From Data Statements

• Entity Example (Loading Game Levels)

• Abstraction Layer

• Triggers Time Based Model

  


Fonts

• Bitmap  Font example

• Custom Bitmap Fonts

• Loading Bitmap Fonts With Alpha Channel

Images

• Introduction To Animation

• Load Image Strip/Pages to an Array

• Soften Image With Alpha Channel

• Convert Text into an AFX image

   

• Alpha Channel

• Display a Loading Screen while loading image media

• Safe Images

• ScaleImage Replacement

• Draw Mirrored Image Section

• Calc Used Image Memory

• Drawing a Grid (graph paper)

• Using FreeImage to Load Images with Alpha Channel

• Load GIF into PB

• Storing Images in data statements

• Create Picture collage

• Detecting the RGB pixel format mask

• Creating Mip Maps

• SyncImage

• Hex grid images

• Custom Scroll Image

• Create Shadowed Image

• Create Mirrored Image

• Image data file save-load

• Global / Local Animation

• Palette Mapped Image Functions

• Image Spooling (Scrolling Terrain Data Via Streaming)

• Make Shadowed Thumbnail

Sprites
   Animation

• Duncki's Sprite Animation

   Collision

• Walking On Sprites

• Walking On Sprites (Collision Map)

• Sprite Collision With An Image Mask

• Sprite Collision (Pixel Perfect) using Shapes

• Shape Sprite Collision

   Misc
    

• Rotate Sprite To Point (turn sprites towards a point)

• Sprite Handles & Rotation

• CenterSpriteHandle on X and Y axis separately

• Drag Sprites

• Dynamic Sprite & Image Creation

• Sprite Flip & Sprite Mirror

• Dark Basic Styled Sprite Command

• Sprite Local Data

• Z Depth Perspective For Sprites

Colours (RGB)

• The RGB()  function

• Detecting RED, GREEN & Blue in pixels

• RGB to HSL

• Simple color picker

• Depth Cued Perspective Boxes (RgbDepthCue)

Graphics (Dot / Line / Box / Polygons & Shapes

   Shapes

• Explode Shape(Vector Explosion)

• Draw Vector Shapes

• ImportShape From RasterToVector

• Using Shapes For Dot Particles

• Shape Confetti

• Shape Clock

   Misc

• Draw a Glass Sphere

• Using TextureQuad to Scale Images

• Drawing a Checker Board

• Superellipses / Supershapes on the fly

• Fat Lines

• Silly Paint

• Drawing a Heart

• Bezier curves

• Circle Tech Demo

• Make Bordered Box

GUI / MENU

• Bubble Tip For PB

• Vista-style popup window for your game/application

• simple windows

• MenuGUI

• Windows Menu DLL

• Text PopUps

• Make and use Slider Bars

• Menu pop up

• MessageBox Library

• 4 Way Menu Pop Up/Dialog

• Custom File Select Dialog/File Request

• Pop up Text Reader

• Drag Rectangles/ GUI Selection

• Action GUI

    
 

Graphical Effects

• Particle Candle

• Sample Sinus Wave for Beginners

• Applying a Classic Sine wave effect to an image [size]

• TV Static / Black & White Random Noise

• Sunny 2d Fractal Mountain

• Scrolling Tile Fade

• Video feedback copyrect screen effect

• Anti Aliased Shape Rendering Effects (line mode)

• 2D Particles Example

• Video FeedBack

• BlitImageAlphaMultImage (Per Pixel Image Colouring)

• Image Fading using BlitImageAlphaMultcolour

• Sinus Bob Chain

• Star Fire Particles

• Textured Twister

• Fireworks

• Twitch Face

• Snow

• Mandelbrot fractal

• Water Line Effect

• Fire

• motor-engine 001

• Grassy Field Depth trick

• Heat wave

• Z rotate / Zoom Example

• Cached Sprite Rotation

• Scrolling Cubes

• Spinning BackDrop

• Simple Sinus Plasma

• Barber Shop Scroller

• Motion Blur Via Alpha Channel

• Blurring an Image

• Cross Fade with Static

• Floor Lighting & Fake Shadows

• Vortex

• Mirrored Floor

• Sparkler

• Perspective Parallax

• Banner Fade In/Out Effects

• Unlimited Bobs/Sprites Illusion

• Timer Based Reveal Effects

• Meta (phong) Blobs

• Multi Layer Gouraud + Sprite Filtering Effect

• Blur-O-Vision

• Mip Mapped Image Zoomer

• Gouraud Radar

• Cross Fade (By Pixel)

• Textured Tunnel

• Rotated Column

• Point Lighting an Image

• Tree Parallax

Game Mechanics

   Animation

• Understanding Motion

   A.I

• Character Avoid Player

• Character Avoid Player(2)

• Field Of Vision / Field Of View (FOV) (Game AI)

• Line Of Sight - (Clever Coders Challenge #10)

• Movement Path Library Example

• A* (Astar) path finding demo

• Snakes with independent bob movement

• Card Shuffle

   Collision

• Advanced Platform Collision

• Platformer Pixel Collisions Via Ray Casting

• Spacial Partition (inter object) Shape Collision

• Mario Demo / 2D platform Game

• Platform Game Movement Based on Ray Intersection

   Controls

• 8 Direction / Way Movement Example

• 8 Direction / Way Movement Example with jumping

• Gun Sight

   Timing

• Consistent Game Timing (Timer Based Movement)

• Timer Based Movement Example

• Timer Demo

• Basic timed movement

• Timer Based Movement with Vsync Tweening

• Vsync / Frame Rate Scaling

• Timer Based Life Spans

   Misc

• A Simple Game Frame Work

• High Score Management Library

• Linked List / SpriteHit  Game Frame Work Example

• Isometric

• Shadow Of The Beast demo

• 500 Rebound Sprites

• Selective Tile Map Refreshing

• Random Terrain Generator for 2D Artillery Game

• beat'em up AI!

• 2.5D Rugby

• Ideas for Managing A Character Inventory (Typed Arrays)

• Image Spooling (Scrolling Terrain Data Via Streaming)

• Object Management

• Score Board / Hi Score Table

    
 
Sample Games

• Boat Racing

• Duck Shoot (Shooting Gallery)

• Text Adventure (Basic framework)

• ASCII based Shoot-em-up (port)

• JetPak Source (PB1.60)

• Jigsaw Puzzler

• TicTacToe

• Another Rebounding Ball Example

• Mouse Buster

• A simple game 1: Pong

• Tetris Clone

• The molecule game

• Play Frogger

• Play Sobotage

• Acey Ducey - An exciting Card Game

• Card Match (Memory Game)

• Very Basic Lunar Lander

• Snake Tail Game Example

• ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS

• The Game Of Memory

• 2D Platformer Revisited - Parallax Version

• Shoot The Alien

• Tron

• Tetris

• Puzzle 15

• Matopeli

    
 
Example Tools

• PhotoView Source

(Screen shots)



    
Cameras

• Smoothly Scroll my Camera

• Wrap Scrolling

• Using Cameras to Follow player's

• Basic Cameras

Maps & Worlds

• Play Mapper Loader V0.01

• Loading Exported Play Mapper Mini Levels

• ASC II Maps

• Copying Tile Data With Wrapping

• Universal TileLoader

• QueryWorldRegion

• Convert Map To Collision Worlds

• Sprite to world alignment

• Function to use different block image grids

• 4 Way Map Movement (Moving through tunnels)

3D Programming

• Simple Direct X File Loader (Direct 3D)

• 3D City Scape

• Perspective Platformer Demo (Using Perspective Sprites)

• 3D Terrain (Using Perspective Sprites)

• 3D Dot Sphere

• Manual Projection/Scene Perspective

Input / Keyboard / Mouse / Joystick

• Inputbox 2.0 for PlayBasic

• Inputbox for PlayBasic

• Infinite Mouse Control

• Overriding the break key

• MouseWheel

• Key names from Scancode

• Custom Input

• Extended Custom Input

• Capture Mouse Movements

• Mouse Key Pad

• Input Gathering

Sound & Music

• Playing Random Music

Files / Disc

• Make Relative Path

• Function To Create Sequential Filenames

• File And System Dates

• GetAllFilesInDir

• Small bitmap images to Data file

• Creating Your Own Basic File Format Example

• Compare Files

• Check If Device Is Writable

• Copy Bytes Between Files

• Buffered file copy (copy data in blocks)

• Get All Files In Folder (Sorted)

• Compare Files

• Duplicate File Remover

AVI Streaming

• Writing AVI (movie) Files

• Saving Frame Sets (Making Videos)

Data

• Using Restore To Search For String Labels

Memory & Banks

• LoadBank / SaveBank

• Load/Save Saving String Data Via Banks

Timer()  / Time / Date

• Convert / Get Numeric Date from Date

• Using Timer() to create delays in your program.

• Timer Demo

• Function to convert Time Milliseconds to Hours,Minutes & Seconds

• Banshee Studios Timing routine

• Analogue Clock

• Day of the week calculator

• Perpetual Calendar

Compiler / RunTime

• Enumerate Errors

• Simple Formula Evaluation / Compilers

Debugging

• Managing the PB Debugger's Trace Mode

• Logging Library

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