I read a VB6-VB.NET upgrade book (not for beginners).
I wouldn't call myself a master, but I have made a Tetris-type game (all graphics are made with the 'Bitmap' and 'Graphics' objects). I made this game to help me learn VB.NET (its much easier to learn something if you practice what you read). However, I think I learned a lot more from the IDE's intellisense and MSDN documentation than from that book (intellisense is definately among the BEST things to ever happen to programming), but that book did give me a good start!
Originally posted by Fat_N_Furry Could you post that tetris game? I know my mom would love to play it. Is it as addicting as the real thing?
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Its not done yet. Its playable; has 3 levels, a main menu system, customizable window sizes and controls, and a high-score table, but no sound, no good graphics (my artwork sux, but the graphics-rendering code seems to work fine) and still a couple of bugs! I'm trying to add animated line-disappearing, but somehow the keyboard events are preventing the animation from completing.
I'll post it on www.planetsourcecode.com when I finnish it (its called BlockEm Extreme). However, lately i havn't had the time (studying for course-placement testing for college, and some software-progamming for the family business). This week, I should have more time than usual, maybe I'll use that time to work on it some more!
Do you still want me to upload what I currently have? This is not only my first VB.NET application, but also my first game!
Last edited by Hu Flung Dung; Oct 29th, 2002 at 07:29 PM.
Alright, here you are, but I'm not a very good coder.... yet! As I've said, its just my first game! I've tried to make it easily modifyable, but now its a bit more bloated than it needs to be.
You'll have to re-compile the code, since i had to delete that stuff to keep everything under 100 k. Make sure the BMP's (I should have used JPG's instead) are in the same directory as the compiled exe.
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