My Visual Basic Game

I've always wanted to be a game programmer, so I set about learning to program. I use Visual Basic, and contrary to popular opinion, it does just fine.

This isn't a complete game - just the beginnings of my adventures in programming.

I'm finally starting to get the double-buffering. I'm not using DirectX. In this old model, I was still "blitting", but with the newer libraries in VB.Net I don't have to - thank goodness. ;-)

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[DRSketchyHedgehog]

really nice

[Aardaerimus]

@DRSketchyHedgehog

Thanks! Hard to believe this was done many years ago with VB6. :-D

[aldentan1]

daym man !!! awesome stuff !! but i wanna ask ,.. can u like kill mobs and stuff ??? i just started learning all this stuff so im still very noob xDD

[Aardaerimus]

@aldentan1 This was a really old VB6 project. Now I use VB2010 with GDI+ and I'm now learning XNA 4. I made a couple demo combat generators without graphics, though. Combat is fairly simple - creating random numbers for attacks and heals, then adding damage and whatnot based upon player variables (weapons, stats, etc.). I need to do a tutorial on this, but I'm learning some tricks with structures/classes right now that's taking me in other directions.

[razveck]

@Aardaerimus I feel u man. I could use one of those pre-made engines or softwares, but I'd rather spend the time understanding the code and making things just the way I want. The accomplishment feeling in the end is worth it :)

[11ready22]

@Aardaerimus Wouldn't just using object1.bounds.Intersectswith(­object2.bounds) work just as well for collision detection?

[Aardaerimus]

@agileapplet I guess it depends on what you'd like to achieve with that.

In actuality, the whole game runs inside a Do While loop, so all of your evaluations can be done inside of that main game loop.

There's an example of this in my GDI game programming tutorials - in the first video even. :-)

Hope that helps.

[agileapplet]

@Aardaerimus hey, thanks for replying. Can I just ask; is it possible to use a Do While loop and if so, how would it be set?

[Aardaerimus]

@agileapplet Hi there, agileapplet. :-)

There are several ways to handle collision detection. In this particular example I use tile-level blocking (I have video tutorials for this on my channel). Essentially, I have a 3rd dimension in my Map array that stores a boolean (0 or 1) value. I then have the toon check the movement direction and assess whether the next tile in that direction has a 0 or 1 (passable or blocked). :-) Hope this helps.

[agileapplet]

How did you stop the man from going through the wall??