FantomGL

I just stumbled over this vid while visiting my favorite game dev blogs and hey, I think it s a little funny for the first few minutes. And he's gets a good message out there.

Right now I'm writing an article about the new sprite features for the next thinBasic journal. I can tell you, it is more harder than I thought. I can code fast but writing something like this when your mind is allready on the next project is not so good. Maybe next time I should write the article first. Do you think it could work? Write the helpfile, tutorials or articles first and then the actual product that you wrote about it? Mmmh, I'm tempted to figure this out. LOL

But the next steps regarding thinBasic are already planned:

• Finish my pathfinding module
• Add/change some stuff in Astrocrusher

Then after that I will attack my first commercial game release. The game will be a turn based strategy one. I'm undecided about the background, either historical or fantasy. I will see how my art skills will help me here and decide then.

What are guys working on?

Hi folks,

I posted a thinBasic sample about how to render isometric maps with the new sprite functions. If you are interested in the script, then click here.

I hope you like it.

Michael

Hi folks,

AstroCrusher 1.0 is finally released to the public.

The intention to create this little game was to show off the new sprite commands I created for Petr Schreibers TBGL module. I think the result is very nice and I hope you like it. You can grab a copy from the thinBasic forum.

Right now you have to let it read and save the highscores to the internet, of it will crash. This will be fixed in the next release.

Let me know how you like it.

Michael Hartlef

Hi folks,

the last couple of months I added almost 100 new commands to the TBGL module, thinbasic native 3D/2D graphics module. As the new version of TBGL is allready shipped with the 1.7.8 beta of thinBasic, I say you should have a serious look at these commands when you do 2D game programming.

Let me know what you think. Soon we will publish a game called AstroCrusher, that I created with the new command set.

Here is a screenshot, I guess you can imaging what the game is all about