Dark Basic Professional has gone free! Make your own 3D games easily

[Jallen]

[highlight][url=http://www.thegamecreators.com/?m=view_product&id=2000]GET DARK BASIC PRO HERE![/url][/highlight]
Oh, dark basic pro, how you make me nostalgia :3:
I got DBP in about 2005, and I was using it while I was learning C++, I kind of learned them at the same time and it made the process of learning to program less of a chore and more fun.

The language is so simple, you can make your own 3d games in no time. I made a full 3D dinosaur FPS in under 700 lines of code back in 2007.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq3SuA1ei0M[/media]
See, you can make something as crappy as that, and still get 24k views on youtube :v:
Yes, the dinosaurs dissapear when you shoot them, hilarious I know.

For those C++ fanboys, like me, who don't want to ever use anything else, it's worth taking a look at for prototyping. Testing small concepts in this language is so easy.

Here's a sample of my raptor FPS code.

Some preliminaries, clearing the screen, setting vsync, cam position, autocam off (autocam automatically looks at new objects) hide the mouse, simple stuff.

cls
autocam off
position camera 0, 50, 50, 50
point camera 0, 1, 1, 1


sync on
sync rate 60

hide mouse

position camera 470,38,110
point camera 1000, 38, 1000

Did the player walk into a cactus, like an idiot?

if object collision(player, c)
    g_fSpeed# = 0
    move camera -0.2
if timer() - lastHit => 500
    hp(-2)
    lastHit = timer()
endif
else
    g_fSpeed# = 0.2
endif

Did raptor get shot?

if intersect object(23+y, camera position x(), camera position y(), camera position z(), nX#,nY#,nZ#)

Output game over text to the centre of the screen.

set text font "Impact"
set text size 50
ink rgb(255,255,255),rgb(255,255,255)
center text 512, 384, "GAME OVER"
sync
wait key

Here, 6 is the object number, which i previously loaded up, and 18 is the image number, which I also loaded

texture object 6, 18

And some loading examples...

load image "media/dark.png", 27
load object "media/raptor.obj", 5
load sound "media/bang.wav", 2

It really is VERY fun, and I feel so nostalgic thinking about it. I'd recommend it to anyone wanting to have something to play around with.
Oh, and they released the source:
[url]http://code.google.com/p/darkbasicpro/[/url]

Enjoy.

[efeX]

Man.. reminds me of when I first started making games around 2003.. I was also learning C++ off and on at the time too. Not that I'll use it but it's definitely worth keeping note of.
Nostalgia.

[Jallen]

I found a half made 3D fighting game I was working on with a proper following camera and everything :D
Might finish it off or something.

[Chandler]

OH GOD. [url=http://www.moddb.com/downloads/happy-fun-time-shooter]FRESHMAN YEAR OF COLLEGE.[/url] I think I'm going to pass out.

Why on earth did you have to remind me D:

[efeX]

gotta love the insta-close when you lose :v:

[Darkimmortal]

Oh wow, this is awesome.

Dark Basic Pro was my first language :D

inb4 dumb

[Joshyy]

Fuck yeah. Downloading it tomorrow morning, since my internet is being a faggot tonight.

[Pery]

Grab this wrench.

Very useful.

[Chad Mobile]

Fuck, I just get all my stuff set up for my 3D game and this get's released..time to start over :v:
[sp]loljk[/sp]

[MrBob1337]

How is GDK (not this), for people who've had experience with it?

[Jallen]

[QUOTE=MrBob1337;22166266]How is GDK (not this), for people who've had experience with it?[/QUOTE]

Well it's identical to this but as a C++ API... So it's slow and outdated.

Use a combo of better, up to date and well performing libraries like irrlicht, ogre 3d, openal, fmod, irrklang, newton, bullet, ois, the list goes on.

[Poodle]

I never tried using this but I think that learning an entire new language for that is stupid, and sit should just stick with C++ or C# syntax.

The reason I think it's stupid is because it will never offer any real kind of programming experience to other languages (Like XNA, you may start C# as a beginner, but you'll learn syntax, and lots of other stuff in C# when you're a master of XNA.)

This doesn't, though it may offer programming experience as a whole, and MAY help you in the long run when you're learning new games and their syntax, I still think XNA is better, because you learn the C# syntax with it, and that'll help you for Java, C++, PHP, and lots of other languages.

Though this may be good for what it is, a game creator framework.

[Chad Mobile]

What I like about this is that it's simple. But what I don't like it going from C# to this.

[Agent766]

I feel dumb. I first started programming 5 years ago with DarkBASIC (not Pro). This brings back (bad) memories.

[Chad Mobile]

I started programming with .VBS files. :|

[leontodd]

[QUOTE=Chad Mobile;22172139]I started programming with .VBS files. :|[/QUOTE]

Thats scripting

[Jallen]

[QUOTE=leontodd;22179448]Thats scripting[/QUOTE]

Please tell me you aren't serious.

[DrMelon]

Reminds me of 2004. Ah.

[Sake]

[QUOTE=Chandler;22160588]OH GOD. [URL="http://www.moddb.com/downloads/happy-fun-time-shooter"]FRESHMAN YEAR OF COLLEGE.[/URL] I think I'm going to pass out.

Why on earth did you have to remind me D:[/QUOTE]

Happy Fun Time Shooter is actually downright mean, I almost cried ...

[Siduron]

DarkBasic kinda got me into programming. I made these shitty games that would come down crashing eventually because the whole game was a loop with 'go to' spam.

After years i'm now into C++ with object oriented programming in my bones and when i look back to DarBasic i can't figure out how it could be possible to program a game without the language being object oriented. :v: