Brutus2D

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Brutus2D is a game programming language developed using Visual Basic, VBScript and DirectX.

It is aimed at the amateur programmer who is interested in learning more about programming & game development.

Simple 2D games can be developed in Brutus2D and with the aid of an additional plugin, 3D games can also be created.

Brutus2D
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Paradigm Procedural
Appeared in 2004
Developer Guilect
Latest release v1.8.3/ 7 May 2008
Dialects BASIC
Influenced by QuickBASIC, GW-BASIC
OS Windows
Website http://pewtersoftware.com/wordpress/

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[edit] Platform

Brutus2D was designed using Microsoft Visual Basic and runs on Windows 2000, Windows XP & Windows Vista.

[edit] Syntax

Brutus2D has two distinctive syntaxes, the first is VBScript and is similar in style to traditional Basic. The second is JScript which is Microsoft's dialect of ECMAScript.

[edit] Functions & Procedures

Functions & procedures are supported in Brutus2D.

[edit] Sound & Music

Support for Sound Effects using Wav files & the following 2 types of music format, Ogg & Midi can be found in Brutus2D.

[edit] Example

option explicit

dim Font1

dim bRunning
bRunning = True

sub main()

        if (graphics.initialize <> True) then exit sub
        
        key.initialize
        Font1 = graphics.createFont ("System", 14)
        
        do while bRunning = True
                if key.pressed(1) or key.pressed(0) = True then bRunning = False
                graphics.clear 255
                graphics.settext "Hello world", 10,10,Font1
                graphics.display
        loop
                
        key.terminate
        graphics.terminate
        
end sub

Call Main

The code above will display a window on the screen & print "Hello world" in it.

[edit] Truevision3D Plugin

By using the Truevision3D plugin you can create 3D environments using Brutus2D.

[edit] Network Support

Brutus2D also has support for network programming, Meaning that you can write multiplayer games or multiuser applications

[edit] Object Based

The core programming engine is supplemented with hard-coded Visual Basic objects. Like JavaScript Brutus2D is object based. Almost all functions (methods) are part of a related object that does a specific task.

[edit] License

Brutus2D is Freeware but extra functionality can be added if Brutus2D is registered for a small fee.

[edit] See also

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