The Dark Basic developers made it all much easier by writing the toughest code and integrating it into the language. In one hour you can write a DB game that would require several days of programming in C++ or several weeks in VB (not counting several months, years, whatever of educational 'exposure'). When you find yourself *ready to rock* register your copy, compile the app and sell it!Īgain, it all comes down to what you want to do. If you want to jump to the head of the line, get the evaluation copy of DB and develop your game. If you are starting from scratch and have a lot of time to learn a new language, study C++ while you save enough money to buy a copy. my advice would be to do the best thing under the circumstances. Given your instance of a minimum-wage, over-worked, slightly impatient programmer. Sort of a best-of-both-worlds proposition. the language is easy to learn and the compiled executables run almost as fast as the games created with the more expensive IDE's. C++ is fast and flexible but it is expensive and not so easy to learn in a day or two.Īlong comes Dark Basic. Visual Basic is the most flexible for many projects but it really isn't suited for game programming (Microsoft built a lot of limitations into VB). The fastest code comes from Assembly but the development time is much longer because it is really a hard language to use on a large project, like a game. You also want to find the fastest and most flexible way to package your product and sell it. Generally, if you want to target a program for a particular platform (say, Microsoft Windows) you want to use a development environment created by the manufacturers of the platform (in this case, Microsoft). It is my assumption that Dark Basic was written in C++ (I could be wrong). It is a general assumption that most games are written in C++.

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