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let's get something straight here...
By: axlyon Date: May 18, 2012, 11:12 am
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john, please stop sending me eMails with nothing about who you
are in them. a PM will suffice. you know my address, so you
might just want to eMail me directly.
[quote]Please say WHERE you'd like this put in Techno Games
Is is HOW I wrote my very first game.
So it MIGHT appeal to a real beginner, scared to know WHERE and
HOW to start!
I can remember being like that.
So maybe we should start a topic called
"How I wrote my first game"
Assuming you do do that, this is what I will say:-
(Put it straight in if you agree)
I wanted to write a game.
But soon found that all a computer could DO was write idiot
things like "Hello World" on the screen.
So given a computer HOW do we get it to do something that helps
ME!
Well for weeks I was disillusioned.
But one day, idly, I made it write Hello world so many time it
filled the screen and I noticed it "jumped up one"
And it still did that whatever I told it to print
So I told it to print I a hundred times, each on a new line
(PRINT "I")
This gave me a vertical line
Big deal!
So I moved the I a bit (Print " I", Print " I", and so on)
A wiggly line.
Not much use, eh
But TWO wiggly lines?
They are the edges of a RACE TRACK
which "Moves up" each time a new line is "added"
OK, so we need a car
My car was done like this
llll
llll
llll
and I started with it between the edges of my racetrack
I found I had WRITTEN a program!
Here th car is at the top of the screen and "moves down the
track because the track edges move up!
To STEER the car I had to insert spaces before it to move it
Right (or after it to move it left)
HOW you do this really DOES NOT MATTER.
In fact I ended up using the keyboard keys L and R.
You can use the "arrows" if you look up a bit of jargon what
"codes" they use.
You can also make a far better car, and the colours you want.
Anyway the car "proceeds down the wiggly track"
(use RND to wiggle the track)
Soon it collides with the track edge.
Count how many times and you have both a score, a winner and a
record score ever
By now I hope you are getting the idea and at least SOME of all
that jargon code (in whatever language) is starting to make
sense.
I suggest using QBAS, because it is "almost English" which means
you can get help about it from a friend or parent. They can read
your program and almose see what it is doing.
Unfortunately, Bill Gates, in one of his bodge "improvements"
(this one called SP2) managed to STOP most people using QBAS. (I
managed to defeat him.)
If he stops you then use QB64 - a free download that Google
Search knows all about.
QB64 is very much faster than QBAS. Better.
"More powerful" - good luck with finding out what that actually
means.
Having now written your first game, write to us here and tell us
how it turned out and all your ideas for better games.
Create your own forum at
HTML http://www.createaforum.com/free-forum.php[/quote]
contacting me like that just looks like another message from my
forum, so please either eMail me from your eMail account, or PM
me on here so i at least can tell who's writing me. i'm not
trying to offend anyone, it's just a little confusing at times
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Re: let's get something straight here...
By: johnfree Date: May 19, 2012, 12:21 pm
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Yes it is a message from your forum!
A would-be poster is asking for your advice
HOW does he send you a PM - it nowhere says how
In what manner is a PM different of better or less confusing.
Sorry if I "did it wrong"
Your advice where and how (under what heading or topic) to post
this would be very much appreciated and not only because it is
your site.
I don't want to post just to please myself - I want to help you
Attract valuable and helpful new members.
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Re: let's get something straight here...
By: axlyon Date: May 19, 2012, 12:34 pm
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well, the word balloon, if you mouse over the icons on my
profile the one that says "Personal Message" or PM is how you
contact me. you didn't "do it wrong" but it's easier to figure
out who's contacting me with either a direct eMail or a PM
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