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I'm not sure if this is the place to post this question, if not I apologize. But I'm just wondering what exactly can I do if I buy the Dark Game Studio? I mean, I know it's to make games and programs, but how much better is it than just using FPSC or FPSCR? I'm currently working on a game with FPSC Classic and as many people know, it has it's limitations. I've gotten used to them and am making more progress each week. Can DGS improve what I'm making, well, not this particular game, but maybe my next game? Can I make a totally different game other than a first person shooter (i.e. a side scroller or third person)? Is it more for making programs like FPSC? How similar to the BASIC programming language is DB? I learned how to program in BASIC when I was pretty young, then again in high school and again in a junior-college course (many many years ago). That's the extent of my programming knowledge other than a tiny bit of Lua from using FPSC. So if I already have some (but mostly forgotten) knowledge of BASIC will that give me an advantage for learning DB? Thanks for any info that you long time users can give me!

Basically DB and DGS [Buy the bonanza pack, you will not regret it!] Are a programming package, you can also utilise the existing levels from FPSC and program your own interactions with DBPro, many users have done it before...

Regarding BASIC, DBPro and DBC as far as I know are derived from BASIC so you should fit right in...

There are several guides around here look for TDK or if you are on Windows 8.1 I am launching many tutorials based on the paid plug-ins [See Sig]

Shoot us any questions you have, happy to answer...

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You can pretty much make any kind of game you want to:

The Last Space 9
Flow Motion
Random Realms

I very much like the flexibility of DBPro (and AGK) and the fact that it doesn't force the user to make a particular type of game.

My advice is not the buy anything just yet. Use the free version of DBPro first to see if you can get on with it. I made Purple Complex (see the link in signature) using just the free version of DBPro and Sparky's collision dll.

The other reason to hold off is to see if any new updates came out for DBPro (there might be some off the back of FPSC Reloaded or there might not or there might be a paid for upgrade or not, it's difficult to tell what'll happen) or to wait to see how the 3D commands in AppGameKit turn out. I personally quite like the current 3D command set, they are limited but you can still make a pretty cool game with what's there.

Or, if you want to predominantly do 2D games then I would suggest using AGK. Get AppGameKit V2 as I think it'll more likely get get all the cool new upgrades and the new editor is pretty good too.

I came to DarkBASIC having used QBASIC for a little bit and found the transition pretty easy so you should be fine.

Thanks for all the info and links to games! Now that I have an idea of what it can do I'm going to try out the free version of DBP to see if it appeals to me and if I can pick it up. I've seen some people say that they just can't get it, but I won't know until I try. Most of my free time is going into my FPSC game, but I have to take a break from it every now and then or I'll burn myself out. This will be nice to try out during those breaks. If I like it I'll definitely be getting the DGS Bonanza, I'm sure everything included would be useful for many projects. And I am running Win 8.1 so those tutorials would come in handy