Games Programming with Visual Basic lesson 1 - Character Control

In this lesson you learn how to program your arrow keys to move a character up, down, left, right on the screen without pause. You will use if statements, boolean variables, event handlers, and the timer object to achieve this. If any of these concepts are new to you, you will have to watch the Visual Basic programming videos before moving onto games programming.

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Completed game can be downloaded here:

[FarisGuitar]

As simple as this is, its really awesome, im going through the rest of ur videos. many thanx !

[mash]

instead of boy.left = boy.left + 5, you could just simple do boy.left += 5. Similarly you can write -= 5 etc. Just is more efficient and easier in my opinion :)

[sarragarobert]

Hello sir! This series of tutorials of yours help me a lot in my project. I would like to express my gratitude to you, so thank you sir! Anyway, what sort of algorithm did you use to create this game?

[jaypandya]

i want to restrict that object movement within a panel boundary.How can we do that.?

[paavangupta]

Sir, I want to make a picture box jump and then come down.
What should I do.

[randellsethreyes]

hello sir.. im amazed with that game but when I code your codes, , the gem didnt come out when i ate the 1st gem.. and the bug didnt come out when i run the program .. can you help me sir? thank you

[reedrichards]

This movement isn't practical for a game. Is there some way to create a custom speed? Something like in the original Zelda or Pokemon games?

[weeihengchew]

this game can create by visual studio 2008?