First video of my platform game engine

I've finally made a new video!!!!

This is the first video showing my platform game engine I've started building. There will be some tutorials based around this for you to use for building your own platform games. But until then, enjoy the video.

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Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• blitz
• basic
• blitz3d
• games
• programming
• indie
• development
• platform
• game

[StJahkk]

This looks really nice, can you use .GIF files as tiles, for example an animated coin or something?

[amcadam26]

@StJahkk No, Blitz doesn't support animated GIF's, you'd have to use images that have strips of frames in them then cycle through the frames in the code.

[Imgoingout1]

you guys should try Game Maker cause GML can do this pretty easy :)

[amcadam26]

@Imgoingout1 Game maker's good for simple games, but the good thing about writing this in something like Blitz is that you can then extend it and make it much more complicated. I've not used game maker but I'm assuming it's limited on teh types of games you can write where as this is written from scratch just using blitz's simple commands.

[smwExpert]

@amcadam26 But Game Maker does :)

[smwExpert]

@amcadam26 Game maker is hardly limited at all, and it can do just about anything Blitz can do. The only difference is that Game Maker is easier to learn, and therefore has more potential

[California292292]

Ever heard of Atmosphir?

[ItsDrizzle]

@amcadam26 well.. you could very easy makes something like this in game maker.

[Jorbz150]

@jereicool

Yes, but Game Maker is good for beginners who aren't quite ready for the more open languages.

[Jorbz150]

@amcadam26

I've used Game Maker quite a bit, though I'm leaving it now for C++.

Game maker may sound like some silly pre-made games that you setup, but it actually starts from scratch. It is based on the Game Maker Language, GML, and instead of lots of typing it is more based on windows and buttons. It is object oriented, and there are lots of commands. It may be fairly limited as far as game programming goes, but you do start from scratch.

-Benjamin

[amcadam26]

@Imgoingout1 blitz is good because it allows you to write stuff like this much much faster than using C++ or any of teh other standard industry languages, there are some games in the shops that have been written in Blitz but most of them are 99p games in office supply shops like staples or officeworld.