Pete's QBASIC Site

I found all of these tutorials with a quick Google search, by the way. I'm sure there are more out there...perhaps you can find a non-QB specific battle engine tutorial that uses pseudo code? The best suggestion I can give you is to download source code to QB RPGs and study how the battle engine wor...

I found a second DarkDread battle engine tutorial that's better than the first one I got for you. It was originally printed in QB:TM. It makes a battle engine that looks like this: http://hammer.prohosting.com/~coderz/ddpic.gif You can find it here: http://hammer.prohosting.com/~coderz/71499.htm Hai...

Tsugumo's partner in crime, Frozen Emu, wrote an interesting article on creating RPGs once... It's called "How To Make Your RPG Not Suck," and it's available on QBasicNews ( http://www.qbasicnews.com/articles.php?id=7 ). It's not so much a tutorial, but more advice and commentary. You migh...

DarkDread's RPG Battle Engine tutorial is actually on my site in the Tutorials section. Anyway, I've reprinted it here for you: +------------------------------------------+ | RPG Programming Tutorial | | | | June/July 1997 | | Issue #3 | | Released: July 16th, 1997 | | Enemy Encounter Engine | +----...

It's a really old puzzle that's been around for a looooooong time. I could explain it for you in my own words, but instead, check out this flash game: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/jeux.lulu/html/anglais/loupChe/loupChe1.htm or this page for solutions: http://ccins.camosun.bc.ca/~jbritton/jbwolfgoat.htm T...

Even if you know the (x,y) position of the ASCII character, you're gonna have to check several different points before you actually hit one that is colored rather than the black background. In the characters that show up on screen, there's generally more empty space than actual "character."...

Wow, Nek, you've been a posting fiend today!

You might find this interesting. It was just posted on the Yahoo! QBasic Group: QuickerBasic Preliminary Scratch Interpreter 1 Here's something that can actually do something: http://qkrbasic.sourceforge.net/qkrbasic-prelim1b.zip It supports the following subset of QuickBasic: GOTO Line labels One l...

That's an interesting idea... I know WisdomDude / James Robert Osbrone was dreaming of making a W32-compatible version of QBASIC...basically remaking the entire interpreter and compiler so that it is compatible with Windows rather than DOS... but that would be one hell of a project. Especially since...

Here's a little bit information on this... If you'd like to check the printed character at screen position (1, 1) -- not pixel (1, 1), but row 1, column 1 of text -- you'd do this: character$ = SCREEN(1,1) Simple as that. The SCREEN function will spit out ASCII codes, instead of a simple character o...

<p><strong>V Planet! Update and Other News</strong> -- Posted by <a href="mailto:pberg1@ithaca.edu">Pete</a> on July 31, 2004<br> I'll start with the biggest news: <a href="http://www.hulla-balloo.com/vplanet/">V Planet!</a>, an affiliate and recipient of the Five Star Site Award...

Ovals and Arcs (which are curved lines of sorts) are really easy with the CIRCLE command. Here's a tutorial I found that explains this pretty well: * 8.6 Creating Circles, Arcs, and Ovals Another useful graphics command is CIRCLE. With CIRCLE, you need to not only specify its coordinates, but also i...

Also, you should submit your tutorials to the Basic Network tutorial competition! It has just been extended for an additional two weeks. The Basic Network is here: http://www.basicnetwork.net ] and the official rules are here: http://forum.basicnetwork.net/viewtopic.php?t=251 If you're interested, t...

CrazyS wrote:Pete,
Its nice to get a good review from you considering the first game I ever created that I submitted to you ... "KaPong". Favorite quote from the review: "Graphics: Suckity Suck Suck Suck"

Heheh, yeah. The Twigz Engine is definitely a HUGE improvement over KaPong.

-Pete

Hmmm... I guess I didn't know that back when I wrote the review. Oh well. They're still great graphics. (Now I know why, heheh...)

Yeah, and it's a really awesome site now. Even if it's just a forum.

You should absolutely post it, Levi! There are too many games these days where the plot is "Save the Princess" or medieval RPGs where you have to save the world from a maniacal evil menace. I think game plot design is something most people think "Psssssh, even an idiot could do that!&...

Good point! (I didn't think of that...)

I'll check it out.

I justed posted this on the QBasic News board, which repeats a lot of the stuff I said before, but it has some new stuff. Man, I've spent too much time writing about Semerkoala! -------------------------------------------------- I support anyone who decides to make their own QB site / forum / etc......

Thanks for that W3C link. Everything checked out, so right now I don't have any broken links.

Yeah, the vast majority of my links don't update anymore....but I think all QB sites are worth linking too, because they all have something to offer. Even Qbasic.com .