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FROGGIE!
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i would say that billy bouncer is one of the best so far and is badly underrated. strutt your stuff shows good coding but is really let down on graphics and gameplay.

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Teh Go0rfmeister
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Posted: 3rd May 2004 13:28
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my favourite is collectatron

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Posted: 3rd May 2004 13:32
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(I hope its alright to post a few pics)

I know its selfish to nominate yourself, but if it wasn't for patch 4's amazing backwards compatability (read: not) then it could have been this game:



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Posted: 3rd May 2004 13:50 Edited at: 3rd May 2004 13:51
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IMHO it should be lobster fishing:
http://darkbasicpro.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=30788&b=5

now that is one hell of a game

Although your game looks pretty good i guess david(Read: Bloody excellent) don't suppose you have a download anywhere? wouldn't mind trying it out.

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Posted: 3rd May 2004 14:12
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Sorry, the only download I had was a bloated, early version. Since P4 / my new gfx card came along it won't even run. I was annoyed to say the least. 3000 lines down the drain!

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Elleomea
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Posted: 3rd May 2004 15:08 Edited at: 3rd May 2004 15:09
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David: I've successfuly converted a ~2000 line program from DBC to DBPro, so am fairly aware of many of the little oddities that need to be taken in to account with DBPro, perhaps you'd like me to take a look at the code? Can't garuantee I'll be able to get it working, or even that I'll have time to look at it for very long, but it'd certainly be a shame for so much hard work to go to waste and it looks like an impressive game so I'd be willing to put in whatever effort I can spare.

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Posted: 3rd May 2004 15:37
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I quite like that Tron lightcycles game, that's probably the one that I've played the most apart from my own. There's always the StarWraith series too, but I've only played the demo's.

I keep meaning to try that Strut Your Stuff, but never got around to downloading it (IIRC it's pretty big).


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Starwraith is okay...
I think we can safly say Aspace is the new generation of db space games.
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Posted: 3rd May 2004 16:05
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Quote: "David: I've successfuly converted a ~2000 line program from DBC to DBPro, so am fairly aware of many of the little oddities that need to be taken in to account with DBPro, perhaps you'd like me to take a look at the code? Can't garuantee I'll be able to get it working, or even that I'll have time to look at it for very long, but it'd certainly be a shame for so much hard work to go to waste and it looks like an impressive game so I'd be willing to put in whatever effort I can spare."


Okay, I'll package it up tonight and reply back here. Be warned, it's BIG and very organised (about 30 subroutines + includes IIRC) plus it uses BSPs which were the main bits that broke.

Quote: "I keep meaning to try that Strut Your Stuff, but never got around to downloading it (IIRC it's pretty big)."


Of course, how could I forget? Strutt was inspirational, quite literally. Merc 2 was based on it.

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I'll look forward to taking a look at it, you can contact me at: webmaster at mikeasoft dot com.

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Hamish McHaggis
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My 2 top games are definitly:

1. Skycars - Graphics are very good, but not amazing, but gameplay and lastability more than make up for lack of snazzy 3D effects.

2. DUO - Greate gameplay, addictive and excellent graphics. Definitly a showcase piece.

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Peter H
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Posted: 3rd May 2004 17:49 Edited at: 3rd May 2004 18:19
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as far as actual playability(fun!) my top two are..

1. D-U-O....Great game! smooth interface. and good graphics

2. Bomber-Warrior...Really good for it's multi player capability...(it's my favourite game to play when a friend is over)

[edit] just read hammish's post...i liked skycars a lot also(was quite addicted for awhile)


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M00NSHiNE
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Did someone make a DB bomberman? Ive just played DUO for the first time and its really good - great showcase for what DBPro is capable of. The presentation is absolutely fantastic - people could learn a lot from it.

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Somebody made Bamberman

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I think it's called 'Bamberman' and I think Froggermon made it for the retro competition, sorry to whoever did make it if your not Froggermon!.


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nonono! NOT bamberman! or bomberman...i just remembered the name is Bomber Warrior...


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After all the fuss, surely Equillibrium would have been the biggest DB game, if it had been finished ie. not moved over to BB.

My nomination would have to StarWraith. Although that bouncer game was class.

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Oh, and what about Cemetary Cat. Now that is a blast from the past, that I only vaguely remember.

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Duo, or Asteroids.

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Posted: 3rd May 2004 19:55
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HotCars


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Quote: "2. Bomber-Warrior...Really good for it's multi player capability...(it's my favourite game to play when a friend is over)
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Thanks a lot magellan, i thought that everyone had forgotten about it!
I might port it over to DBP if i find the time, but i doubt it will happen.
Btw my favorites DB games are firewall and OIE (yeah, i like rts games)


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Peter H
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Grismald- so you are the famous bomber-warrior creator ...i think i just fainted...that game is really fun man! picking up that stun gun and zappin your freind then leaving a bomb next to him is really fun ...not to mention the inverting feature


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Posted: 3rd May 2004 23:42 Edited at: 3rd May 2004 23:42
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DB[P] Game I've most played:
Firewall
DB[P] Game with best/smoothest grafics:
RoomWar
DB[P] Game that I've told my non-programming friends to download the most: Rosewall Racrer
DB[P] showcase entry that got me to buy DBP:
Equillibrium.

These are my entries, although there have been a lot that I love and just can't think of.



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Toby Quan
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One of my favorite DB games is Alien Gunslinger

http://darkbasicpro.thegamecreators.com/?m=showcase_view&i=187

It is the only DarkBasic game that I have actually 100% completed. (except for my own...)
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Sky Cars was awesome! I remember last summer, when I first joined the forums and got dbc, I would code to it while listening to Big Star usually after baseball games I coded better Every morning after swim team I would come home and play sky cars, fun times man, fun times...
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Town Hall toaster for DBC

Sunday Drivers for DBP
If the Sunday Drivers creator is out there how did you think up that name(inspiration).

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sunday drivers-nice name but i found it to be soooo sloooww(and yes i know that's why it's named sunday drivers but...well...it's really slow )


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VanB: I didn't make it

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Duo is the best so far in my mind, and evidence that big teams dont make the big games.

Most promising demo was DarkGT, which was well ahead of everyone else at the time. Sure I now have a game that is quite comparable, but i'm doing it on much faster computers with better tools.

Whilst i'd like to thank Megaton for his kind words on ASpace i'd just like him to know that ASpace was just a demo and is unlikely to go any further so sadly it is not the future of the genre. :/

Thanks also to Pincho for the Asteroids nomination , even though Transfusion is supposed to be my current flagship I think Asteroids is actually the better game. Thankfully I do have some new stuff in the pipeline so hopefully next time this thread comes around Banshee will have a bigger presence .


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Thanks for the DUO mentions guys

Tricky one this. A lot of DBPro games look great but lack that extra special something in the gamplay stakes.

Anyway for my money Skycars (pure, addictive gameplay), OIE (looks like a PC game, playability like an Amiga game....and that's a good thing), Asteroids (oldie but I haven't played a better 2D shoot-em-up) and the game I've wasted too much time on most recently.....Wordtris (brilliantly simple).

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@Manticore Night

Thanks for voting for Town Hall Toaster! I'm glad that you liked it!!!
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town hall toaster was also fun...very original


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I know it's a not a game but VanSEAM was very addictive

Don't know what that says about me!

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Fog - I also nominate DUO as the best DBP game I've seen and played! There's nothing like playing that at night and getting the retro feeling. Thanks for the WordTris mention!

I also liked the Twintrix --- that's very addicting and my girlfriend even likes it. The music is very cool.

Another one that was cool was one that called Giga-(something, my memory escapes me). It was entered in the Alien competition and it had this cool feature where the entire level would rotate 90 degrees. That was a blast.

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