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AppGameKit Classic Chat / What do you want to see added past version 1.08?

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Alien Menace
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Posted: 7th Oct 2012 09:06
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1.08 really adds some awesome stuff. Very impressive! What else would you like to see added in the near future?

I'd like to see encryption/decryption functionality added to all load/save commands. It is important when using licensed sound fx and music as a lot of EULA require some sort of encryption to use the assets. A command to set a key value then a flag added to all commands on whether the file that is being loaded or saved is encrypted. A packer with encryption would be good but I'd like to encrypt my save game test file as well.

I'd also like to see password support added to the zip commands.

I'd like to be able to specify a border texture with flags for stretch and tile.

I'd still like to see FOREACH commands added. GLBasic has this and it is great, especially for managing arcade games.

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JimHawkins
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Posted: 7th Oct 2012 09:12
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Top of my list would be microphone input.

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Rich Dersheimer
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Posted: 7th Oct 2012 09:20 Edited at: 7th Oct 2012 10:53
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I would like to see a fast FindSubString() function.

And support for ttf/otf fonts, IKR, I'm dreaming.

And LoadArray() and SaveArray(), including UDTs. Yessssss.

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DMXtra
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Microphone input would be great.

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bjadams
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Posted: 7th Oct 2012 13:51
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DazzyF
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Would like more audio functions, effects etc if this could be incorporated.

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kamac
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Posted: 7th Oct 2012 23:33
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Library extensions

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Hodgey
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Posted: 8th Oct 2012 02:24
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I'd like to see some extra features in the BASIC language itself. Arrays within UDTs and referencing would be great.

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Impetus73
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I'd like to see commands for highscore tables, and online score systems.

Multithread programming would be great also.

Effects commands would be nice too, like screen fading and water/fog/flare effects, maybe done with shaders.

I also would like more tutorials, like "All you need to do to get a tier 1 game on the iOS app store", and I mean ALL.

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Agent Dink
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I would like to see more control over images and the screen itself. Particularly, grabbing pixel colors from coordinates on the screen or images.
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Ian Rees
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Posted: 17th Oct 2012 10:36
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The ability to pack media files - this is only an issue for Windows apps, but I plan to release games on iOS, Android and Windows.

At the moment all my media is exposed in the application directory (Program Files) - if I could pack the media it would look much more professional and protect my media.

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bjadams
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when they do memblock commands it would be easy to do a simple set of functions to have all assets as one big DAT file and you could read portions of the DAT file and convert to images in memory etc
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Grook
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Support for scalable vector graphics would be excellent.

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Duffer
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What Hodgey said - also more database support - also some more GUI support (then reflected in Freedom Engine).

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Santman
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More audio commands is a definite. The ability to read how long an mp3 is, how long is been playing for, how long left etc etc. Microphone input and recording would be awesome. Saving and loading arrays, and it would be awesome to see it cross compatible with dbpro. Oh, and DEF the ability of AppGameKit and DBPRO to network together.

Actually, just generally more cross compatibility - some of us haven't abandoned DBPRO yet.
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Breezy
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More control over sound, adjusting speed, frequency and adding/adjusting harmonics.

Browser (html) compatibility as per Freedom Engine or just a java option if possible because that would be compatbile with more browsers.
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nz0
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Definately encrypted media. i have paid for assets in my game and wouldn't be too happy about them not being protected.
Also, it shouldn't be so hard to add

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MarcoBruti
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all stuff you asked for...plus that it worked with Windows XP and OpenGL 1.x.
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pprem
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GetDeviceLanguage() to know what language is used by the player and display the good text by default

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Santman
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Two more ideas. In dark basic you could send net messages with images or sounds attached - that would be perfect for server based games along the lines of Songpop etc, and would be really useful for moving it away from shooters and platformers.

Also, a date time command would be great - as in "getsystemtime" etc - though I have no idea what technical limitations this would have, lets face it - all the supported devices know the date and time!!! (apologies if the unix commands can do this but the documentation is really poor - I have no idea how these are meant to work!).
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gbison
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Posted: 2nd Nov 2012 20:49
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Quote: "I'd like to see some extra features in the BASIC language itself. Arrays within UDTs and referencing would be great."


This!

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