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
Paradigm(s) Procedural
Appeared in 2004
Developer Guilect
Stable release v1.8.7 (11 February 2009)
Dialects BASIC
Influenced by QuickBASIC, GW-BASIC
OS Windows
Website http://pewtersoftware.com/wordpress/

    Platform

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

    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.

    Functions & Procedures

    Functions & procedures are supported in Brutus2D.

    Sound & Music

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

    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.

    Truevision3D Plugin

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

    Network Support

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

    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.

    License

    Brutus2D used to be available in two versions, one of them was Freeware but extra functions could be added if Brutus2D was registered for a small fee. However since v1.8.5, Brutus2D has been available to download for free with complete functionality.

    See also

    External links

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