Blitz Basic Programming for Beginners - Part 5

[iaqsuk1]

this is great stuff amcadam26. I've been really struggling in Blitz Basic even understanding samples and game examples just by looking at them, but your video really helped me understand the process. Thanks you.

[Wdel32]

@TacticalGames make sure that you have a separate command to delate both the bullet and the alien.

Hope this helped

[igooog]

When I do the loop within the loop, it brings up the message "'wend' without 'while'", although I can see where "while" is...

[TacticalGames]

People are saying this, this is happening to me too,

when I fire the bullet the bullet gets deleted and NOT the alien.

Please help!

[AsianInvasionNGU]

Hey I'm having some issues... When I press F5 all the aliens are all squished together and even overlapping sort of in the middle-left of my screen (I chose to do it full screen). Whats wrong? I downloaded your code and compared and they're pretty much the same.

[igooog]

Okay, I went back and made sure to enter exactly what you had, save the things after colons, as those don't matter, and it still doesn't work...

Start over time?

[igooog]

Expecting variable assignment

?

[kptinblk]

problem fixed agen now its say access violation

[kptinblk]

problem fixed now its saying "wen" without "while"

[kptinblk]

oh now its saying not enough parameters

[Globox822]

5 star

[ziherodvrana]

my bullets are deleting when colided with aliens but aliens stay there ;(

[12345665566]

why didn't you put the collision check in the bullets update loop? you'll one loop less and in big programs it really matter

[veryfuck]

amcadam26 is the best!!!

[thomasred4]

Does this code work with BlitzPlus or are they different languages.

[amcadam26]

Yes it'll work fine. They are different languages but I'm using the bits which are the same.

[BrandonioProductions]

hopefully you get back to me, i fire the bullet and it hits the alien, the bullet disapears but the alien does not, whats wrong?

[amcadam26]

you need to delete the alien object too, as well as delete the bullet object.

[BrandonioProductions]

If ImagesCollide(img_bullet1,p\x,­p\y,0,img_alien1,c\x,c\y,0) Then

Delete p

Delete c

Exit

End If

it dont work, wht i do wrong?

[amcadam26]

I'm sure you could do this in visual basic but it will be much more complicated than just using Blitz.

[UncleGeraldo]

Your Tutorials are great! Thanks a lot. Keep it up

[amcadam26]

Thanks, I'm in the middle of making a new one for the platform game series of video right now.

[rafanavega]

Fucking horrible color scheme.

[amcadam26]

It was the best I could do to make it show up well on Youtube. If you can think of a better one, then please let me know.

[rafanavega]

Lol I didn't know you'd answer. Sorry for my unkind words.

I see your point. It looks good really, but I wouldn't dare programming under this color scheme (mine is the same as the old Blitz Basic freeware color), my eyes would be burning within 5 minutes.

[Dwalimz]

i cant fire bullets... at all it says like invalid image handle or something

[amcadam26]

it means it can't find the image your telling it to draw. Check that your source is in the right directory and the name of the file is correct.

[joeythegeek1942]

great tutorial. a space invaders clone is grat for beginners. you cant beat retro video games

[deathman2602]

great tutorial