BASIC Gaming reminder

[Lachie Dazdarian]

Hello everyone.

Allow me to remind you that the next issue of BASIC Gaming is comming out in 2-3 weeks, so if anyone has anything game dev related to show, be sure to post about it in the following weeks or email me screenshots/demos/info (if you want to keep them exclusive for the magazine).

Also, tutorials and articles are welcomed.

Email me: lachie13@yahoo.com

I got somewhat distracted during the last month, and sorry about that. It's hard to juggle between working over time and two communities. I'm trying to find a QB64 game project for me and hopefully I'll be able to start one soon. I definitely want to contribute to the Qb64 community in that way too.

[Lachie Dazdarian]

Allow me to bump this thread once more before the issue #6 is released. I've scheduled it for the next weekend (19th/20th of May).

QB64 news briefs so far:
* GO engine updates
* shuffle game by SMcNeill
* jrobert's TouhouTest video
* ummagumma games project news (http://ummagummagames.wordpress.com/)
* retro remake competition results
* Super Star Trek QB64 port by anttiylikoski

So far no articles or tutorials.

If you want to see more QB64 content in BASIC Gaming please post news on your game dev projects or submit articles

Cheers!

[SMcNeill]

* shuffle game by SMcNeill

Thanks for mentioning my game.  It was just something I threw together for the wife and daughter to enjoy playing (they love puzzles, and it seemed simple enough to do), but I failed before to address several memory leaks in the program.  It wasn't freeing up fonts or images as it should, and could become a terrible resource hog.

Seeing the game mentioned here reminded me that I needed to fix that, and after sitting and staring cross-eyed at the screen for a few hours scrolling through code, I think I fixed and plugged all the problems.  The program should no longer keep jumping in memory usage, and I don't think I broke anything else fixing the problem.  (I hope!  LOL)

The newest version is downloadable from the Shuffle Game topic in the sample area of the boards here.  Take it.  Try it.  Enjoy it.  And let me know if something fails to work as it should.  It's always possible to break something else while fixing a problem. 

[DarthWho]

I am almost done with an article I am just proofreading it now.

[Cyperium]

I was a little bit too optimistic last issue that I would complete my Venture game, perhaps the issue after this one, but you seem to have a lot of QB64 game project news already, I'm pretty excited about the current progress on my game though, I've made slotmachines that you can play similar to SMB2 and win coins and also have a save-system so you don't need to restart from scratch every time. Also I'm now working on World 6 so only two more worlds to be done, but I'm also doing some work on the previous worlds as well so it's not really that easy to forsee how long it will take.

[DarthWho]

well you can include this with the Go engine update stuff a little bit of info on the personality AI engine series
general concept:
to allow for easy customization of different playing styles in board games
version 1: (status: lost)
designed for chess
used 6 variables
allowed for some customization on the weighting of the moves changing the play style
Version 2: (status: lost including notes)
Version 3: (status: never completed)
notes this was originally an attempt to expand to include other games (checkers and Chinese checkers)
used 17 variables at time abandoned
first appearance of drop in AI components
version 4: (status: under development)
focus changed from a generalized problem (multiple board games) to a specialized problem GO
change of direction in the basic weighting structure rather than simple static variables usage of equations defined by a set of three variables each to define the behavior of the AI allowing for a dynamic change in play style throughout the course of the game.
more advanced implementation of the drop in AI components model
uses some user feedback to determine the effect that it's move had (time it takes to respond things like that)
originally envisioned with 37 equations now uses 38
uses Horner form polynomials to compute the move weighting a little faster
version 5 (status: theoretical construct)
currently the concept for this is similar to version 4 but allows for the use of non polynomial equations and may expand on the user feedback system.

[Lachie Dazdarian]

Thank you for your news and submissions.

[Jobert14]

* jrobert's TouhouTest video

Can you please call me jobert instead? By the way, TouhouTest project is already abandoned some 2 weeks ago due to programming and copyright crap complications.

[Lachie Dazdarian]

Can you please call me jobert instead? By the way, TouhouTest project is already abandoned some 2 weeks ago due to programming and copyright crap complications.

Well, that's news too. What are you working on now?

[Jobert14]

I'm working on CCSakura-EX again but reusing the PolyRend engine from TouhouTest for the 3D flying levels and bonus games. Sorry for abandoning TouhouTest but I might work on it once again with a different name. I don't know if you still accept Dosbox compatible QB45 games (making a danmaku shooter in a old DOS PC is one good challenge!).

[DarthWho]

sorry I lost the usb drive I had the article on...

[Axlyon]

sorry I lost the usb drive I had the article on...

ever head of windows breifcase? i backup all my drives onto it.

[Lachie Dazdarian]

Sorry to hear that DarthWho. Hope you will find motivation to rewrite it for issue #7, if you fail to find your USB.

Jobert, of course QBasic content is acceptable for BASIC Gaming. Any new QB games or info on QB games in development are more that welcome to be featured in the mag.

Cheers!

[Clippy]

"His dog ate it"... 

Seriously, could it be backed up somewhere as a temp file? Windows does that sometimes.

[A.R.B]

Axlyon...Your a Head Case!!


A.R.B