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Older BlitzMax Tutorials and Downloads

Tuesday 24th, October 2006

The Game Of Life
Conway's game of life implemented as a BlitzMax project. The source code is heavily documented.

Games Programming for the Absolute Beginner with BlitzMax

Wednesday 18th, October 2006

The source files for Games Programming for the Absolute Beginner with BlitzMax are now available for download. The last volume contains items that didn't make it into the final book, but have been added for completeness.

Volume 1 - Ch4-11 (128Kb)
Volume 2 - Tank Attak to Ch13 (540Kb)
Volume 3 - Ch13-14 (826Kb)
Volume 4 - Ch14-15 (739Kb)
Volume 5 - Ch16 and Paratroops! (5.5Mb)
Volume 6 - Flood (353Kb)
Volume 7 - Extras (2.7Mb)

BlitzMax Tutorials

Saturday 16th, September 2006

Parallax Scrolling

In a series of BlitzMax tutorials, we look at side-scroller shoot 'em ups. In the first part we take a look at making the scrolling background. It features graphics from a freeware site that I have lost the name of - sorry! If these are your images and you want credited / have them removed, please get in touch.