Playing around with DOS is making me wanna try and make a lil qbasic game 🤔

[blp@framapiaf.org]

@eniko Did you try the QBasic included gorillas game? I remember it being a lot of fun.

[nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt]

@eniko @discatte poor :D But there are Future Library and DirectQB library, both used for making very high quality games.

[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@blp I did way back when, it's a classic

[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@nina_kali_nina @discatte yeah but that's quickbasic, which is cheating! >_>

[nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt]

@eniko @discatte true, true! :) I remember there was a Final Fantasy 1 clone in pure QBasic 1.1, and it was sooo slow T_T

[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@nina_kali_nina @discatte I'd love to see that game

[nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt]

@eniko @discatte I can't find it, but I can find a very playable QBasic RPG called Mini-RPG 2

[discatte@digipres.club]

@eniko

yeah its kinda fun to work within the qbasic limits, it makes for a certain kind of game =^^=

@nina_kali_nina

[captainarcee@retro-gaiden.com]

@eniko this is for Windows 3.1, but I've been thinking of making my own "shareware" compilation of games I'll be creating using Klik & Play https://www.myabandonware.com/game/klik-play-fxl

[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@captainarcee oh I used to love klik and play as a kid!

[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@discatte @nina_kali_nina I think I may actually have an idea for smooth scrolling 160x100 8bpp double buffered graphics without using assembly 🤔

[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

I have an idea for a qbasic game

Well. More like a scrolling tile engine. But still

[brooke@bikeshed.vibber.net]

@eniko i wanna make a scrolling tile engine so bad

i don't even care about the game i just wanna play around with tiles and sprites :D

damn me and my very long list of projects i've already committed my "free time" to

[adriano@lile.cl]

@eniko Block Game, then Tile Game, then Line Game and finally Point Game. I like.

[pedromj@mastodon.social]

@eniko Gorillas-like? ("-like" in the sense of the language it is programmed.) (Anybody remembers it nowadays?)

[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@pedromj yeah. In qbasic 1.1, the slow interpreted one

[pedromj@mastodon.social]

@eniko That had a propaganda effect on me, I did not figure out that qbasic could be compiled ---and qbasic programs be much faster--- until 25 years later!

[nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social]

@eniko Won't qbasic be pretty bad at scrolling? Like MSX bad?

[halla@kde.social]

@eniko Last time I did that was in the late eighties. A long night of coding together with the woman who is now my wife, on something that made music. We ended up going to the alll-night in the Breestraat, Leyden,, getting snacks and half-liltres of Amstel beer. playing the music game we made, and then falling asleep and missing college the next day.

Amstel beer, btw, is not nice.

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@eniko @adriano it's basically super hexagon levels, but in reverse