GLBasic Game Programming
November 10, 2009 by Charlie
Filed under PC, Programming
I wanted to introduce our users to GLBasic. It is a game programming Basic language, which is extremely easy to use for new programmers. It’s also a great language for more experienced programmers.
GLBasic will compile for Windows, Linux, Mac OSX, iPhone/iPod Touch, Windows Mobile, Windows Dll, GP2X, GP2X-Wiz and more.
GLBasic is fully featured for creating 2D games, and it also contains a complete 3D engine as well, using OpenGL.
GLBasic is updated extremely often by it’s developers.
It’s FAST and easy, which is always a great combination.
Networking is an easy process with GLBasic.
You can make your own online games!
Some of the 2D features are:
Sprites rotating, zooming, and blending,
polygonal sprites, and alpha blending
Some of the 3D features are:
GLSL shaders, real time shadows, Dot3 bump mapping, supports common 3D formats, light mapping, real time lighting, collision detection, and a lot more!
GLBasic is not free, but there is a fully featured trial version. The only downside to the trial is it will limit your gameplay to five minutes, and contains watermarks.
For a full feature list visit HERE
If there is some interest, I may create some tutorials in the future for starting GLBasic.
I plan to migrate evilmana.com away from a “PSP only” site, and GLBasic would be a great place to start!
