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  1. Apr 30th, 2002, 06:47 AM #1
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    How to make a simple car game!

    Hi,

    I have just come up with an idea for a really cool game. It may not appeal to everyone, but me and my friend will be learning to drive soon, so I thought a driving sim, but reeealy simple.

    All it would have is a road, a small city made of brown buildings (of infinite height) and some stop signs and stuff..

    I would really like to do this in C++, but I don't know anything about it, and dont want to learn it (yet!)

    I have used DarkBasic, and I loved it, but I only had a demo.
    If someone has a 'used' serial code for darkbasic, or could explain in fine detail how to create such a game, then please reply.

    I would really appreciate some links on VB Directx Programming..
    I can only find C++ Directx

    Thanks heaps in advance!
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  2. Apr 30th, 2002, 07:37 AM #2
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    alrighty then, how did you guys learn DirectX??
    (in VB)

    Thanks,
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  4. Apr 30th, 2002, 08:39 AM #4
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    Thanks!!

    BTW: What do you guys think of DarkBASIC??
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    It sucks: limitied features, royalties (maybe they got rid of it), no OpenGL, no lighting (again, may have it). Also, your whole program must be 1 piece of code.

    Also, the 3D engine they use is SLOWWW!
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    Check out planetsourcecode.com's VB tutorials. I remember seeing a couple tutorials on DirectX there.
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    well, I've had a look at some directX and I think I will learn it, but not right away. It is just too much to shove into my brain, while I am studying for 3 tests

    Is there another 2D (top-down view) game creator out there??

    I dont like DarkBASIC, because of the slowness (I see what you guys mean)
    and VB can't rotate picture boxes.

    I thought of using DX for the input (my steering wheel ), but, I can't rotate the pictures so I moved onto directX which is really hard anyway.

    Is there a way to have a 2D directX with lighting?

    I sort of have the hang of 2D directX, and using it would be so much easier. If this is possible, could someone find me a site which explains about how to rotate 2D 'things'

    Thanks for all of your help in this topic,
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  9. May 1st, 2002, 01:14 PM #8
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    http://www.Blitzbasic.com

    they have a 2d game creator and a newer blitz3d game creator.
    they both out perform darkbasic, and I would suggest one of those.
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