Interesting game.
I played it with a game controller (Xbox 360 wired controller) and although the controls are great, it’s still very hard. Maybe the controls could be configurable?

What does it say?

Oh, it looks like it’s the 123rd topic in the Offtopic forum as well.

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I’d love to enter, but…

Entries have to be open source, so make sure to include source code in your release.

Why? I really don’t feel like working on something for half a year, and then having to release my code as if I didn’t put any effort into it. I feel like I should have some control over my code, because, after all, I wrote it. Is this because you don’t want us stealing code or what? Making it open source is just going to encourage stealing.

Oh well. If I don’t participate I’ll at least have some more time.

VB development… hard? Well yeah, it does seem like that, when people tell you to go to the developer wiki and you have to read stuff like memory maps, chars, worlds, registers, interrupts, etc… ARGH! Just tell me how to make something, is what probably everyone thinks when they start looking for information.

I found KR155E’s tutorial very helpful, because it’s so well documented, it only tells you the basic stuff at a pace you can keep up with and encourages you to try exploring, along with the GoSub thread, and then there’s the forum so you can ask a question and have it answered by someone from our friendly little community.

You may hear that it’s good to go read a book about the C language before doing VB development. That may help, but… forget it, it takes forever. Try starting with some other programming language (ANY language will do). I personally did nothing but various dialects of BASIC (not that I think there’s anything wrong with that, I think BASIC’s a great language no matter what anyone says, it’s easy, it’s functional, it’s general-purpose, whatever) and some Pascal and some NewtonScript (the language of the Newton platform) and some language a friend of mine started making and I did documentation for him, blah blah blah, and my first hands-on encounter with C was right here, in the VB development scene. Once you become a programmer (understand the basic concepts of programming) you can basically move on to anything.

Don’t give up. Never. If you aren’t _interested_ in programming but still want to see new VB games, try your skills in story making, art, game design theory (that is planning how a game should work and play), testing, etc. You’ll make development of new games easier, I’m sure.

Works, kind of. (Opera 9.21) It says it can’t find my data, but logging in manually (with Opera’s Ctrl-Enter) on the error page does the trick.

Looks great. But the collision detection against walls moves you far too away from the wall.

BTW, is the gravity code based on my code? Just askin’.

The correct way would be (I believe) to another while() loop around the existing one like this:

while(1) {
while(1)
  {
  // your code here
  // once the character enters a door:
  break;
  }
level++;
}

So, I am the only one who can resist the urge to download the ROM? I’m still waiting for the clean version. Then I’ll probably buy a FlashBoy to play it.

Well, that’s still cheaper than the FlashBoy…

There might be a better way, which also works in Opera 9.

Well, it does work now. I’ve noticed you’ve changed the ampersand. It looks much better now.

The mosaic box looks pixelated (hence the “mosaic” nickname) while the normal version has a clear picture. The mosaic version is much more rare.

Try this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strafgesetzbuch_section_86a

Now it looks weird in Opera 9.21.
It shows both the VB font and the normal font occupying the same space, and it’s a mess. (I’m talking about the text below the path folders)

Use a proper browser … 😛

Let me guess… you’re a Firefox user? 🙂

Anyways, with smooth scrolling on or off, it redraws too slowly.

Let’s see… how many times has this thread been hijacked? Let’s try for a record!

Yeah, and right now I’m hijacking my own thread. How cool is that?

I agree, the title could be a bit smaller. Other than that, the only real problem is that it scrolls too slowly, at least with Opera (version 9.21).

p-vb.com is available.

Dashes in URLs are just ugly and also inconvenient to type.

Good rips, yes, but they end with a fadeout. And I’ve noticed that The Final Stage repeats a couple of times (maybe also other ones, I haven’t checked them all yet). Anyway, they’re stereo, which I personally find annoying sometimes, but some may like that.

Then that would be like buying a title.

I’m interested. (even though I don’t have 3D Tetris) But you said you don’t like Visual Basic GUIs, so…