Any one know of any good brake down material for people who are not beginners but not advanced at coding in smile basic? petite professor and the wikia are good but do not hit into the higher sprite functions and interactions of arreys and datas. would love to be able to brake out of this learning curve.

alright thanks, been messing with a sprite on a balnk screen just running diffrent codes seeing what i can do, thinking i may need learn how to ether do a data or dimension array to jog a speed table.

what i am looking for is a way to simulate drag force, someting gradually speeds up or slows in inervals over time, when i ran my code i got a fast speed up but no drift in the sped up direction, and exsample would be, a boat in the water doesn't just stop, it drifts to a slow and the direction of force causes the boat maintain its course. my code does not

an idea of wht i tried was as long @spddf if button(1) then spd was spd+1 if spd>=5 then spd=5 if button(0) then spd=spd-1 if spd<=0 then spd=0 return tag on was x=x+spd

Ok, so Thanks to C.Norris and Zee my first game is going good but a minor snag "drift effect" tried a few codes for a effect of speeding up and slowing down but didn't work. Any ideas for a good drift engine my was a fail.

Best tutorial you can get for BG!

OMG! C. you need to post this for every one! this is amazingly in depth. Great job with with this tutorial, this is how the sample programs should have looked!

Wicked awesome! thanks C. and Zee i tryed your fix and it worked really well. so now that i know your way, just trying to figure out tne "why" behind it. but I'v been having fun with it.

aaaah ok, also, how do i set sprite level so it doesn't float above all bg layers?

here is the code

something went wrong lol, will try tweaking.

Thanks zee will give it a try, and C.Norris I will definitely be looking forward to that program! Heck at this rate I think my first game is really yours lol. You've already help me learn quite a lot in just a few days.

loading the map stuff really, getting things to do what you want like tall grass to slow a person, map scrolling, i need a major lesson in this, more then the game offers in text. Going to focus one subject at a time and start small think, will start with track and add things to it as i go.

Any good indepth BG maping guids any-one can recommend? I watched petite professor do a video but it kanda lacked the actual lesson. I know there are two standered ways, would love to learn both.

Haha awesome, yup did that and fished ended up-side-down, so went notice what you where refuring to and went with spverk and it worked, now my fish can swim in the right direction.

having a little trouble with spchr i fallow the instrutions for it but my fish just dissapers I just used in order :spset 0,17:sphome 0,8,8: and i think it was sonething like spchr 0,,,,1 to set as a flip and the fish disappears, and thanks ^ but sprot only makes image upside down when 180ed.

yup, like I said its a stupid little thing, fish rotats and dies, just thought I would share cus its weird, also I like how the color grading came out, later will be a real game. so once again, joke not a serios game.

How do you flip a sprite, I know how to use things like rotation and scale, but rotation will just make it upside-down, seems simple enough but no idea what the access name would be.

Little joke of a game to fool your friends, nothing big just a practice with sprites. life of a fish key:2RKE78NE

got ya, just curious. also noticed it helps sprites change without interference with other lines. tried diffrent things on your code to kinda figure things out, also your way is good, its easy for a beginer to figure things out