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Post by Krylar »

Heya,

Fine question. I have given Fred access to all of the book so far, so hopefully he'll let me know if anything's changed that I need to update.

Ultimately, of course, the book will become outdated (as would any text on the subject) as PB will continue with updates after the book is published.

However, I would imagine most of the fundamentals will remain the same. Also, I do have the latest version and everything seems to run just fine :)

Thanks!

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Thanks, Krylar!
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Hi all,

Demo game is complete and posted for your downloading pleasure.

http://www.codersworkshop.com/viewproduct.php?id=646

That gives some book information and also at the top you'll see "Download the Migz Callo: Laser Blazer demo game"

Hope you enjoy it!

Note also that the PB book has been completed and is just awaiting edits from Fred and a few other folks. Once those edits are done and in place, I'll be passing it to Idigicon for publication.

Thanks everyone! :D

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Post by zikitrake »

Pretty example.

¿What price will have the book? There is possibility to translate it to Spanish? :roll:

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Don't know the price of the book yet, to be honest.

Translation to Spanish? If you know someone willing to do it, I'm sure that Idigicon would publish the translation :)

Trust me though, you don't want ME to translate it to Spanish...I would do a bad bad job at that! hehe

All the best,

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Post by Kevin »

Fantastic demo there Krylar.

Makes me want the book even more to see what goes on to produce a game like that.

Excellent!
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Nice game. I do think it could be a bit easier. :)
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I know...I know...the game is a bit, erm, challenging :P

Well, I figured it's only 3 levels and so ramping up difficulty would be curved quite high. At 10 levels it would rock, but I didn't have time to do that. Sooooo...I leave that as a job for the students <cough>. :D

Seriously, though. If you play through it a couple of times, you'll learn some tricks that make it quite simple to beat. I can get through all the levels without losing a single life, no problem. It's all in the tricks. Read the page after the story and you'll get some of them down.

Thanks for the feedback!

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Hi again,

I've put up a page that has the Table of Contents for the book. This should be the final listing for it, so I thought those of you who were interested would want to see what's in there:

http://www.krylarskreations.com/pb_book.shtml

All the best!

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Wow, this book looks great. :D
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I really like the game and I just can't wait to get your book. :D However, there is just one issue when playing the game - the windows title bar keeps flickering over the game screen. Any idea why this is happening?

Oh, and you better get working the PureBasic 3D game programming book. :wink:
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the windows title bar keeps flickering over the game screen. Any idea why this is happening?
I wish I did know. I asked so many people for help on this and the only responses were a) really? doesn't happen to me, and b) update your video drivers.

Interestingly, when I updated my video drivers it did indeed stop. However, I still notice a flicker for about the first few frames and then it doesn't flicker anymore.

So I would say step one would be to update the video drivers :D

Thanks!

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Hello,

Nice game and interesting book! I'm new to Purebasic and I'm actually planning to program a sidescroller in the near future. It will be a clone of my all time favorite videogame: Scramble. So wenn it's not too expensive(book/delivery) I'm gonna buy it for sure.

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I didn't think it was too expensive, but it doesn't say how much postage would be...

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"Programming 2D Scrolling Games" (using PureBasic) is now available for pre-order!

http://www.codersworkshop.com/viewproduct.php?id=22

Thanks!

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