Small Basic: Resources for Game Programming
This article introduces some resources for game programming in Microsoft Small Basic programming language.
TechNet Wiki Articles
- Small Basic: Dynamic Graphics - shows about collision.
- Small Basic: How to Make a Turtle Maze Game - is about making game using Turtle.
- Small Basic Sample: GameGraphics - is a sample code using Shapes, Images, Arrays, Mouse and Keyboard control.
- Small Basic: Sprite Arrays - shows how to move images in games.
- Small Basic: The Battleship Game in detail - shows details about a battleship game.
- Small Basic: Timeline for the games - show how to control or manage time in games.
Blog Posts
- Small Basic Game Gallery - contains many Small Basic games.
- Vertical Scrolling Games - is about simple games written in Small Basic.
- SideScroller - Small Basic Featured Program - is about another scrolling game.
- How do you get an image for your program? - is for creating images.
- How do you get a sound for your program? - is for creating sounds.
- Small Basic - Random Numbers - is about random numbers especially for games.
- Small Basic - TextWindow Cursor Positioning - is for text base games.
- Small Basic Game Programming
- Small Basic Game Programming - Let's start with RPS game
- Small Basic Game Programming - Text adventure
- Small Basic Game Programming - Separation Between Data And Procedure
- Small Basic Game Programming - Sugoroku like game
- Small Basic Game Programming - Vertical Scrolling Game
- Small Basic Game Programming - Shooting Game
- Small Basic Game Programming - Air Hockey Game
- Small Basic Game Programming: Game AI
- Small Basic Game Programming - Game Math
- Small Basic Game Programming - Bowling Game
Forum Threads
- Being part of a game Dev team? - invites you to join a game development team.
- Small Basic: Challenge of the Month - has a game challenge every month.
Books
All these books are written by Philip Conrod and Lou Tylee.
- Computer Bible Games for Small Basic
- Programming Games with Small Basic
- Computer Bible Games for Small Basic (Color Edition)
Following Microsoft Word e-book is a revised version of "101 BASIC Computer Games Book" published in 1973. This book contains many text base games.
- BASIC Computer Games - Small Basic Edition
- BASIC Computer Games - Small Basic Edition (online partial version)
Videos
- How to Make a Simple Game using Small Basic - shows making of text base number game.
- Flappy Bird Gameplay - demo
- Armoured Assault gameplay - demo
- MS Small Basic chess - demo
- Making a tictactoe game in small basic - shows making of tic-tac-toe game using an extension.
- How to make a Paddel game in small basic!!! part 1.
- How to make a Paddel game in small basic!!! part 2.
- How to make a Paddel game in small basic!!! part 3.
Popular Small Basic Games
All these games can be run in web browser. For graphics games with keyboard control, please click game screen first.
See Also
- [[articles:Wiki: Small Basic Portal]]