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       How I made my very first Game
       By: johnfree Date: May 20, 2012, 1:18 am
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       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 then "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 the 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 (i.e.
       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.
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