Tutorial: How to make a Verticle Shooter!

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Matt McFarland(Posted 2006) [#1]
I have completed a comprehensive walkthrough tutorial on how to make a verticle shooter, step by step! This tutorial is indexed with a table of contents and includes the source.
check it out here:
http://www.shmup-dev.com/wiki/index.php?title=Tutorials:BlitzMAX:Creating_a_Vertical_Shooter

No knowledge of BlitzMax is required, and no media is needed to download! Once you finish this tutorial you will know how to use Types. You'll also know how to make a group of enemies and handle each one's attributes like their position and their hitpoints. you'll learn how to make dynamic explosions, and a playership that moves left and right and shoots!

It was designed in wiki, so you have my permission to copy and paste the wiki-source over to blitzwiki.


assari(Posted 2006) [#2]
Matt,
Thanks for sharing.


InvisibleKid(Posted 2006) [#3]
the full sourcecode listing has 2:

Type TEnemy Extends TGameObject

and no TGameObject or TExplosion

after a bit of cut and past from the snippets i got
it running though.

ps thanks for the tut ;-)


Matt McFarland(Posted 2006) [#4]
Fixed!!! thanks KingNothing! :)

I have tested the source and it works perfectly!!


orgos(Posted 2006) [#5]
Thanks man, good job


iamdaman13(Posted 2007) [#6]
Can someone give me an updated link to the vertical shooter tutorial? This one is dead.


Barbapapa(Posted 2007) [#7]
yes, has anybody saved this tutorial and could reup it?


josk(Posted 2007) [#8]
If anyone can send me this tutorial I will able to get it online within a few days.


Ricardo_C(Posted 2007) [#9]
http://web.archive.org/web/20060228013801/http://www.shmup-dev.com/wiki/index.php?title=Tutorials:BlitzMAX:Creating_a_Vertical_Shooter

Here you are, courtesy of the Wayback Machine :)

I followed this tut back when I first got BlitzMax, it's a fantastic intro for newbies.


jkrankie(Posted 2007) [#10]
has this gone forever then?

Cheers
Charlie


Ricardo_C(Posted 2007) [#11]
I still have a copy on a backup CD, I'll post it sometime tomorrow (gotta dig for it first)


Ricardo_C(Posted 2007) [#12]
Sorry it took me a while... Couldn't find the blasted CD :p

I zipped up the archive.org copy of the tutorial, and put it on RapidShare. Have at it :)

http://rapidshare.com/files/24946182/ShmupTut.zip.html


CGV(Posted 2007) [#13]
Thanks Ricardo_C, I've been looking for this tut.


BODYPRINT(Posted 2007) [#14]
I've edited out all the links that no longer exist and fixed the menu links that weren't working.
I have uploaded this to my web spacefor you guys.

http://www.cold-incision.com/shmup.html


Matt(Posted 2007) [#15]
Thanks for the link! Saved to my HD now.


Ian Thompson(Posted 2007) [#16]
Very nice, thank you.