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    Searching for a book (old one) about making games in Pascal, written by a woman

    Hi everyone,

    I've lost the link for this one, but there is a book rather old but great ideas inside for making a game , platform game in pascal, only thing I know it's writing by a women, lots of examples included.
    I know that when the book was released it caused a lot of positive/negative response from the people back in the days...

    If anyone knows the name of the book by only this, please reply.


    Greetings
    Robert

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    I've never heard of that one. Any further details? Colour of the cover, what her name started with? Any more details?

    I know of only and have this one: http://www.amazon.com/Graphics-Progr.../dp/1556226373

    I know of an old tutorial for making platform games using DelphiX components written by Alexander Rosendal (aka Traveler) way back when. They were pretty good. I even used them for my first platformer project. I can't seem to find it online anymore. He did give me permission to republish it on PGD, but that was a while ago and I can't recall if I ever got a local copy. He may have it on a disc somewhere if it's of interest.
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    Quote Originally Posted by WILL View Post
    I know of an old tutorial for making platform games using DelphiX components written by Alexander Rosendal (aka Traveler) way back when. They were pretty good. I even used them for my first platformer project. I can't seem to find it online anymore. He did give me permission to republish it on PGD, but that was a while ago and I can't recall if I ever got a local copy. He may have it on a disc somewhere if it's of interest.
    Was the turotial about making space shoter, focusing mostly on implementing gamestates and working with sprites?
    If it is then I can tell you that I have a local copy of it somewhere

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    Well,

    there was a Space shooter in it or kinda... but there was a very detailed guide about writing a platform game in it...with editor included and everything... the main thing is the idea how she did it , great ideas....old code, but I need the idea for the editor, because I will redo the editor this time in full screen without using the VCL , only pure Asphyre.

    If I remember correctly it was a Woman and her husband.

    The guide went into great detail about creating the Sprite Editor, the map editor, the engine itself... and it was and probably is available online as a scanned copy of the published book, with source code everything...but I was stupid enough to loose the link #@!#@!

    Greetings
    Robert

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    Found it, my memory does not server me right.... it is in C...but still the ideas are great.

    http://www.fastgraph.com/makegames/sidescroller/

    Diana Gruber

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