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"Darkbasic and the Xbox"

It would be awesome if we could all make games for Xbox..
I bet I have some ideas that Microsoft would like, but theres no way in hell I would even apply for a dev kit.. I dont trust them enough to even try, and I couldnt use it if I did, I dont think. Plus Ive sent ideas to big companies in the past and I get a letter saying "oh we dont have plans for that, and we never would make it" and then 2 weeks later its out.. never again.

I would think since its Microsoft they would be corny and only let the C++ programmers make their games.. I *hate* that fact, that C++ is the standard for making games. Cuz I think it sux (probably cuz I dont know it! ) and they should let other people, like us friendly+creative DB people, make their games too.. they are going to miss out on some great games like that I think. But its not like they care since theyre filthy rich anyways.

I hate to be picky but C and C++ are considered high level. Assembler is low level. By the way, could you give me that list of books?

I emailed Rare asking them what they use and they said they used C more and Assembler mostly. I know Visual Basic and Dark Basic and am learning C++. They even gave a list of books on OpenGL graphics and 3D graphics to read. I would like to use DarkBasic in making a decent RPG. I think for a game designer it would be good as they can show what they want more easily without knowing C++ or C but as far as I know C++ and C are so much faster than DarkBasic and basically everything else as it is so low-level.

Hey, hey, hey, another DB user over here! Although I expect I will be transferring all the stuff for my current game - Blue Earth, over to Blizt 3D when it arrives because its rendering capabilities are awesome.

C++ is used for almost all programming (except VB script kiddies who think they can program), because it is the best language to use powerfully.

Dark Basic is fine for a shareware game, but if you want any control, C++ is the way to go. Learn OpenGL, and 3D graphics are so easy to control, it's just like BASIC.

Nick. (An OpenGL/C++ programmer in case you hadn't guessed)

Hey, I'm a C++ user and I also have DIV games studio. It came b4 Darkbasic and its brilliant a platformers and retro's. Crap 3d though, stuff b4 doom. I'm looking foreward to Darkbasic but I fear that, like DIV, it will lack certain features.

cragnut wrote:
Plus Ive sent
> ideas to big companies in the past and I get a letter saying
> "oh we dont have plans for that, and we never would make
> it" and then 2 weeks later its out..

Games such as?

Hey there, nice to talk to a darkbasic user on this site,

I heard on the net that there was a convertor for dark basic to C++?

Maybe we should have a talk though as currently I am giving serious thought to setting up a games production company,

maybe we could discuss ideas or whatever?

It would be awesome if we could all make games for Xbox..
I bet I have some ideas that Microsoft would like, but theres no way in hell I would even apply for a dev kit.. I dont trust them enough to even try, and I couldnt use it if I did, I dont think. Plus Ive sent ideas to big companies in the past and I get a letter saying "oh we dont have plans for that, and we never would make it" and then 2 weeks later its out.. never again.

I would think since its Microsoft they would be corny and only let the C++ programmers make their games.. I *hate* that fact, that C++ is the standard for making games. Cuz I think it sux (probably cuz I dont know it! ) and they should let other people, like us friendly+creative DB people, make their games too.. they are going to miss out on some great games like that I think. But its not like they care since theyre filthy rich anyways.