PlayBasic Tutorial Index

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PlayBASIC Tutorial Forum Index

Learning To Program

• PlayBasic IDE & Getting Started Tutorial: (Beginners)

• TDK's Game Programming For Beginners (Index) (10 Part - learn to program series for beginners!  Highly Recommended)

• How To Make Games In PlayBasic (FAQ) Index of Links/Questions/Examples on all things PlayBasic Highly Recommended)

• The very basics: Vol 1 (Beginners))

• Coming To Grips With Commands (Beginners))

• Array Commands Back Ground INFO (Beginner/Intermediate)

• Linear Searching (Through Arrays) (Beginner/Intermediate)

• Queue - Data Structures (Beginner/Intermediate)

• Stack - Data Structures (Beginner/Intermediate)

• Should I use GOTO in my programs ? (Beginner/Intermediate)

• Myths About BASIC ? (ALL)

• Tips On Safe Resource Management:

Games Programming

• Space Invaders Tutorial (Learn How This Classic Game Ticks! Highly Recommended)

• Tips On Making A Platform Game(Highly Recommended)

• Another Pong game)

• Click the Circle)

Game Mechanics

• Introduction To Animation(Learn How Game Animation Works)

• Object Management (Character Life Cycles)(Learn To Manage Game Characters from Birth to Death)

• Timer Based Movement (Learn how to make your game run at the same speed on all computers)

• How To Handle More than One Object (Source Only)

• Fade Screen/Image to Black(Fade a screen/image to black)

   



Program Optimization & Rendering Efficiency

• A Crash Course In Optimization

• Simple code profiling and high resolution timers

• Economizing Image Blitting (drawing!)

• Crash course in Image & Sprites Draw Modes

• Copying/Drawing Between Image Types

• Locking / Unlocking Buffers - Where and When

PlayBasic Wiki Sites

   

• Playbasic Wiki Site

Data Compression And Encryption

   

• Compression  (run length)

   

• simple but effective encryption in PlayBasic

IDE / Compiler Related Tutorials

• PlayBasic IDE & Compiler Integration Tutorial: