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by adshead
Wed Sep 16, 2009 9:36 pm
Forum: Announcement
Topic: PureBasic 4.40 Beta 3 released
Replies: 39
Views: 20038

Re: PureBasic 4.40 Beta 3 released

Thought I'd just posted this message but didn't seem to appear so here it is again...

I still can't change the font size on the Mac version - makes the product unusable in my opinion as the font is just too small
by adshead
Sat Aug 22, 2009 11:31 pm
Forum: Mac OSX
Topic: Increasing font size in the mac IDE
Replies: 1
Views: 1746

Increasing font size in the mac IDE

Is this possible?

If I go to the preferences I dont seem to be able to change the font or the size. I'd like to change the font and make it bigger.

Thanks
Dud
by adshead
Mon Jan 19, 2009 6:32 pm
Forum: Announcement
Topic: Thomas' Recycling Adventure - Platform Game
Replies: 15
Views: 6438

By the way I forgot to mention that there is now a proper web site for the game with a few screenshots - just to make it a little easier to decide whether to download it or not.

The url is http://recyclingadventure.110mb.com/
by adshead
Mon Jan 19, 2009 6:30 pm
Forum: Announcement
Topic: Thomas' Recycling Adventure - Platform Game
Replies: 15
Views: 6438

Fluid Byte - your too kind :)

Its hard to know whether something you've worked on is of decent quality so its nice to get re-assurance from the comments in this forum. It's definately encouraging me to have another go at perhaps a more ambitious project.


The filter I used in GMX Photopainter I ...
by adshead
Mon Jan 19, 2009 2:13 pm
Forum: Announcement
Topic: Thomas' Recycling Adventure - Platform Game
Replies: 15
Views: 6438

Yeah getting the difficulty right was tricky but my main concern was making sure young children could play it. I always wanted them to be able to get through most of the game relatively easily and its really only the final Dragon level that can zap your energy quite quickly.

I had thought about ...
by adshead
Sun Jan 18, 2009 10:00 pm
Forum: Announcement
Topic: Thomas' Recycling Adventure - Platform Game
Replies: 15
Views: 6438

Sorry to here your having problems - your the first person who has been unable to run it and I've tried it on a wide range of desktops and laptops both old and new.

After pressing Space on the title screen there should be a single page of instructions and pressing space again should then take you ...
by adshead
Sun Jan 18, 2009 4:11 pm
Forum: Announcement
Topic: Thomas' Recycling Adventure - Platform Game
Replies: 15
Views: 6438

Thanks for the kind comments :)

It is indeed the very first game I have developed so I was quite pleased with the outcome. I'm a .net developer by day but have never done any game development before.

I think purebasic helped a lot as I didn't have to worry about all the low level graphical stuff ...
by adshead
Sun Jan 18, 2009 2:09 am
Forum: Announcement
Topic: Thomas' Recycling Adventure - Platform Game
Replies: 15
Views: 6438

Thomas' Recycling Adventure - Platform Game

Last autumn I decided to evaluate PureBasic 4.30 having never used it before and thought I'd build a little platform game for my 6 year old son.

He wanted to do a game about recycling but it also had to have robots, skeletons and a dragon in it, so thats exactly what I did! There are 9 levels in ...
by adshead
Tue Dec 02, 2008 9:41 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Any Purebasic games on Game Portals
Replies: 11
Views: 6099

Hum. We're using Purebasic for our games and if you search a bit on this forum, you'll see that it's a good platform for ANY project, if you're talented enough.

I've no doubt that PureBasic is up to the job - but I do know that some game portals favour games written in their own sdk (eg ...
by adshead
Fri Nov 28, 2008 6:07 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Any Purebasic games on Game Portals
Replies: 11
Views: 6099

Any Purebasic games on Game Portals

Hi all,

I've just finished my first ever game using PureBasic and am pleased at how quickly I could put it together as well as its performance.

I now feel ready to write a commercial quality casual game - but I just wondered if there are any examples of PureBasic games that have successfully been ...
by adshead
Sun Oct 05, 2008 11:12 am
Forum: Game Programming
Topic: Mixing 2d Sprites and 3D
Replies: 22
Views: 13848

Mixing 2d Sprites and 3D

I notice in the latest beta this apparently is now possible?. I am working on a 2D platform game using 2D sprites and would like to make use of the particle functionality already built into Purebasic 3d Engine alongside my 2d Sprites.

Is this possible?
by adshead
Mon Sep 29, 2008 10:17 pm
Forum: Coding Questions
Topic: Detecting when a sound has stopped - is this possible?
Replies: 1
Views: 791

Detecting when a sound has stopped - is this possible?

I can't seem to find anything that will help me determine when a sound I am playing has finished - does anyone know a way to do this?

Basically I am playing a sound when two objects collide - but because collision detection occurs quickly, the beginning of the sound is constanly repeating. I would ...
by adshead
Thu Jan 03, 2008 4:25 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: PureBasic for Game development a good idea?
Replies: 12
Views: 3363

Wow - these games were both done with PureBasic? Thats impressive.
by adshead
Thu Jan 03, 2008 3:15 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: PureBasic for Game development a good idea?
Replies: 12
Views: 3363

PureBasic for Game development a good idea?

I have for a long time been searching for a language and IDE that will allow me to build a game which can be run on all three platforms (windows, Mac, Linux). I've used BlitzMax in the past but never liked the IDE.

I have always kept my eye on PureBasic but have never used it because the Mac ...