BlitzMax (free download after creating an account at blitzbasic.com)

[gameleaper]

BlitzMax (free download after creating an account at blitzbasic.com)

OJsDad, you may like this

[gameleaper]

I programed all my games in this, and its a very good and easy language"BASIC"

[Staggerwing]

Thanks for the heads up!

[gameleaper]

Im paid about £80 GBP for it, and it still sold for a high price a few days ago

[Yskonyn]

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What started out as a kickstarter for a development kit for cross-platform games, now seems to be going in the direction of a substitute for their older Flagship product; DarkBASIC Pro.

The upcoming additions to the 3D toolset are impressive, while DBP hasnt been updated for a while now.

You can choose to program in AGK in BASIC or C.

Www.thegamecreators.com

[gameleaper]

You might also be interested in App Game Kit by the Gamecreators.
What started out as a kickstarter for a development kit for cross-platform games, now seems to be going in the direction of a substitute for their older Flagship product; DarkBASIC Pro.

The upcoming additions to the 3D toolset are impressive, while DBP hasnt been updated for a while now.

You can choose to program in AGK in BASIC or C.

Www.thegamecreators.com

thanks, that's really good news

[OJsDad]

Thanks Gameleaper.  I grabbed it.

[ArizonaTank]

You might also be interested in App Game Kit by the Gamecreators.

App Game Kit was recently part of a humble bundle, got it for a song.  So recommend keeping an eye out for deals.

To get back to the thread...I have long looked at Blitzbasic.  Plenty of good docs out there to help with it.  So this is good news.

[OJsDad]

I did find a link on the Blitz web site for utility called MapEditor.  Doesn't look like it's being updated anymore, but it does look like it could be very handy in making hex grid maps.

[GJK]

You know what I would sign up for?  gameleaper giving how to instruction on designing and coding the various parts of the games that he does.  For years, I've looked at Blitzthis, and Blitzthat, and GameCreator this and that and every time I get stuck at the part where I actually do something that would be for a hex and counter wargame; be it the hexgrid or moving pieces along a grid or storing and retrieving attack-defense values, etc.  There's a gazillion examples on how to made a side-scroller but nothing really that pertains to *our* hobby.  gameleaper seems to of mastered how that's done and I'd love to have some of that knowledge!

[gameleaper]

You know what I would sign up for?  gameleaper giving how to instruction on designing and coding the various parts of the games that he does.  For years, I've looked at Blitzthis, and Blitzthat, and GameCreator this and that and every time I get stuck at the part where I actually do something that would be for a hex and counter wargame; be it the hexgrid or moving pieces along a grid or storing and retrieving attack-defense values, etc.  There's a gazillion examples on how to made a side-scroller but nothing really that pertains to *our* hobby.  gameleaper seems to of mastered how that's done and I'd love to have some of that knowledge!

here is a blitzPlus chess game with source code
https://www.dropbox.com/s/clhvr6fi58c0y2p/GameLeaperChess.zip?dl=0

If you look at the code of a chessboard its the same as a boardgame, you have chits and a board, you pickup a chit then click new position, if you expand the example code you can make a full size boardgame, the final code is named quitit3. a hex board is made not of hexes but squares one rank slightly lower than the previous and the next rank, you see the drawn hexes but its realy squares :)

I don't code like anybody else Ive met, I just crack every problem with a sledgehammer, I just do whatever code comes to mind , even do bad code that still works if you bend the problem. I asure you wargames are a great subject to program.

PLEASE PLEASE ignore the complex looking code here, you build a program slowly brick by brick and then forget the bricks, just look at the pricipals, also the blitzplus program is much more complex than is needed, I just am a bloating coder because I don't plan I just get on and do the code even though I do far more work than is needed, I should plan it better

[gameleaper]

I will jot down a few nuggets Ive learned as I think of them.

1) Hexes are really square(programing wise)

2)you need a grid to remember the board , what chit is there and what values for strength etc.. you do this with an array eg: board[50,50,20] so you have a 50x50 board with 20 elements for info, so board[1,0,1] = chitt1, board[2,0,1] = chit1, or board[2,0,1] = chit6

in this example the element 1([...,...,1]) is the chit slot where the grid remembers what chit is where

3) have a display function, with a FOR NEXT loop

  FOR x = 0 to 50
  FOR y = 0 to 50

    if board[x,y,1] = 1 then draw chit1

  NEXT
  NEXT

you would actualy write something like this "drawimage(x*40,y*40,frame=chit)" 

that is for 40x40 pixel chits, and the chit variable is the number in the set of chits

[gameleaper]

board[1,0,2] could equal strength

board[1,0,3] could equal armor etc...

[gameleaper]

so now you have a grid, and a display function to draw the grid.

you now need to know where the mouse is hovering or clicking

you call a gethex function, basically you locate the mouse, by saying if mouseX is less than 40 and greater than 0 your on hexrow 1, and if mousey is greater than row 0 and less than 40 your on rank 1 etc...

your function has to locate the mouse anywhere on the board

[gameleaper]

you can only display a small part of a big board on the screen at a time, so you need an index for your display function, simple z = 0, and y = 0.

if you press down y=y+1
if you press up, y=y-1

if you press left z=z-1
if you press right z=z+1

then you just add z to x in your display function and add y to x