|
Post by larrybtoys on Sept 25, 2024 21:43:35 GMT 1
|
|
|
Post by yyin on Sept 26, 2024 4:09:57 GMT 1
Congratulations. This forum is so inactive and therefore you cannot get too many constructive feedbacks. I think that you may feel alone and lonely here. On the other hand, I have been very, very, busy recently. Thus I can only write a few words here. 1. Encourage the author of GFA BASIC 32 to add your Itch link to the official website of GFA BASIC. 2. Start introducing your Itch link to gaming Youtubers. 3. Introducing your Itch link in SyntaxBomb forum and the QB64 sub-foruum(I mentioned before). 4. Introducing your Itch link in official forums of other BASIC dialects may not be suitable. Your posts will probably be deleted at once. Any other good methods to promote your Itch pages and your games?? I really don't know. You have 7 followers now. Not bad anyway. Sure! Finally, good luck to you!!!
And don't give up!
|
|
|
Post by Xavier on Sept 26, 2024 14:12:39 GMT 1
From all of us at GB32, we want to extend our heartfelt congratulations on reaching the incredible milestone of posting your 100th game on itch.io! Your creativity, dedication, and passion for game development have been truly inspiring. I am sure each game you’ve created will bring joy and excitement to players around the world. Thank you for sharing your amazing talent with us and for being such a valued member of our community. We can’t wait to see what you come up with next! Keep up the fantastic work!
|
|
|
Post by larrybtoys on Sept 26, 2024 20:28:34 GMT 1
|
|
|
Post by larrybtoys on Sept 26, 2024 21:21:50 GMT 1
I just released Planets, The on Itch. Mostly because it was basically the same game as the hieroglyphics game except with planets instead of Egyptian symbols. larrybtoys.itch.io/planets-the
|
|
|
Post by yyin on Sept 26, 2024 23:53:37 GMT 1
One more thing, though there are over 100 games in your Itch account, there are only two new forum members. You started uploading your games on 18 Aug and only two new members registered after this day. They have not written any forum post. It seems that they registered at this forum not because of visiting your Itch pages recently. gb32.proboards.com/members?dir=desc&sort=registered_onI still think that mentioning this forum on this Itch page is useful. An emphasis on all games written in GFA BASIC on this Itch page is also useful. If new visitors(I mean BASIC hobbyists) visit this Itch page, they will realize all the games are BASIC games at once. They will be more willing to download these games to try because they are BASIC games: larrybtoys.itch.io/
|
|
|
Post by larrybtoys on Sept 27, 2024 1:56:23 GMT 1
|
|
|
Post by larrybtoys on Sept 27, 2024 2:09:34 GMT 1
One more thing, though there are over 100 games in your Itch account, there are only two new forum members. You started uploading your games on 18 Aug and only two new members registered after this day. They have not written any forum post. It seems that they registered at this forum not because of visiting your Itch pages recently. gb32.proboards.com/members?dir=desc&sort=registered_onI still think that mentioning this forum on this Itch page is useful. An emphasis on all games written in GFA BASIC on this Itch page is also useful. If new visitors(I mean BASIC hobbyists) visit this Itch page, they will realize all the games are BASIC games at once. They will be more willing to download these games to try because they are BASIC games: larrybtoys.itch.io/larrybtoys.itch.io/ OK I added some text and a link to my profile
|
|
|
Post by yyin on Sept 27, 2024 4:09:51 GMT 1
One more thing, though there are over 100 games in your Itch account, there are only two new forum members. You started uploading your games on 18 Aug and only two new members registered after this day. They have not written any forum post. It seems that they registered at this forum not because of visiting your Itch pages recently. gb32.proboards.com/members?dir=desc&sort=registered_onI still think that mentioning this forum on this Itch page is useful. An emphasis on all games written in GFA BASIC on this Itch page is also useful. If new visitors(I mean BASIC hobbyists) visit this Itch page, they will realize all the games are BASIC games at once. They will be more willing to download these games to try because they are BASIC games: larrybtoys.itch.io/larrybtoys.itch.io/ OK I added some text and a link to my profile Well done! I like this sentence very much: "This language is quite powerful and very fast and is able to do just about anything you put your mind to."
|
|
|
Post by larrybtoys on Sept 27, 2024 9:22:29 GMT 1
I just received follower number 8 and a positive comment.
|
|
|
Post by larrybtoys on Sept 27, 2024 10:43:50 GMT 1
|
|
|
Post by larrybtoys on Sept 27, 2024 14:13:01 GMT 1
I also just put up a posting on the Facebook forum called "BASIC Programming Language" with a link to all the Itch games created with GFA Basic 32, to the download of GFA Basic 32 and to GFA Basic 32 Pro Boards. Let's see if this gets a little traction.
|
|
|
Post by larrybtoys on Sept 27, 2024 19:44:03 GMT 1
I still have a couple more games that I really like that will end up on Itch in the near future but I am also working on some specialized code that will allow several of my 2-player games to be played over the internet. Proof-of-concept has already been done with a 4 x 4 Tic Tac Toe game that works great and is very fast. Actually faster over the internet than I ever got it to work over my internal network...Still tweaking the code to deal with a GB32/Windows issue as well as some heavy server security code. I will likely put the proof-of-concept TTT game on Itch for free download however since this internet 2-player ability is going to be costing me money monthly, the internet 2-player games are going to be 3-4 dollars to download on Itch. I really hope to have the first games up there end of week next week.
|
|
|
Post by yyin on Sept 27, 2024 22:39:14 GMT 1
I also just put up a posting on the Facebook forum called "BASIC Programming Language" with a link to all the Itch games created with GFA Basic 32, to the download of GFA Basic 32 and to GFA Basic 32 Pro Boards. Let's see if this gets a little traction. Many members are in this group. Perhaps most of them are mainly interested in ancient BASIC dialects. There should be some members who still want to search for suitable modern BASIC dialects to write games. If there is a complete tutorial for GFA BASIC, many of these people may really learn how to use this language.
|
|
|
Post by larrybtoys on Sept 27, 2024 22:42:40 GMT 1
I also just put up a posting on the Facebook forum called "BASIC Programming Language" with a link to all the Itch games created with GFA Basic 32, to the download of GFA Basic 32 and to GFA Basic 32 Pro Boards. Let's see if this gets a little traction. Many members are in this group. Perhaps most of them are mainly interested in ancient BASIC dialects. There should be some members who still want to search for suitable modern BASIC dialects to write games. If there is a complete tutorial for GFA BASIC, many of these people may really learn how to use this language. It takes many, many hours to put together a tutorial. Perhaps one of the pro-boards members would like to do it
|
|
|
Post by larrybtoys on Sept 28, 2024 3:02:54 GMT 1
|
|
|
Post by yyin on Sept 28, 2024 4:07:43 GMT 1
Many members are in this group. Perhaps most of them are mainly interested in ancient BASIC dialects. There should be some members who still want to search for suitable modern BASIC dialects to write games. If there is a complete tutorial for GFA BASIC, many of these people may really learn how to use this language. It takes many, many hours to put together a tutorial. Perhaps one of the pro-boards members would like to do it
Not too many active members in this forum. Most active members only ask and answer programming questions here. I believe that only you, Mr. X and me are interested in trying to make this forum become a larger community.
|
|
|
Post by Xavier on Sept 28, 2024 13:12:43 GMT 1
It takes many, many hours to put together a tutorial. Perhaps one of the pro-boards members would like to do it
Not too many active members in this forum. Most active members only ask and answer programming questions here. I believe that only you, Mr. X and me are interested in trying to make this forum become a larger community. ??? :-[
Hello everyone, I code for fun and I also enjoy being a member of many forums. I find it fascinating that although we can have unique goals; when they are similar enough, we can experience a sort of “Group Synergy.” Whenever this happens; it's magical!
In regards to Tutorials... Yes, whenever someone creates or refines information so it becomes useful to others, this is very helpful and also a great way to learn. I am sure Sjouke Hamstra, James Gaite and Nicholas Rey have all experienced this.
These people have made very notable contributions to GFA-BASIC over the years:
We should not miss the opportunity to recognize these contributions and thank them for their efforts.
|
|
|
Post by yyin on Sept 28, 2024 16:23:27 GMT 1
Not too many active members in this forum. Most active members only ask and answer programming questions here. I believe that only you, Mr. X and me are interested in trying to make this forum become a larger community.
I am sure Sjouke Hamstra, dragonjim and scalion have all experienced this from their monumental efforts in creating and managing the Help documents for GB32 in general by dragonjim and Sjouke Hamstra and the extensive graphics oriented material compiled by scalion aka Nicolas Rey.
We should not miss the opportunity to recall and thank them for their efforts.
I see. Thanks a lot!!!!!!!
|
|
|
Post by larrybtoys on Sept 28, 2024 21:02:16 GMT 1
I just released a game called Tile Factory on Itch while taking a break from network code... It's a very cool game I wrote last year that I totally forgot about. Pretty addicting. larrybtoys.itch.io/tile-factory
|
|
|
Post by yyin on Sept 28, 2024 22:24:12 GMT 1
Maybe the user community needs these two groups of people to join.
1. Retired persons.
2. Young people(children and teenagers).
They are able to spend a lot of time on using the language to write many programs and release them. Each released program can be treated as a promotion for the language.
|
|
|
Post by larrybtoys on Sept 28, 2024 23:40:13 GMT 1
I just released Crazy Dice on Itch. This is another very addicting and cute retro game from Atari days that I had forgotten I wrote last year. larrybtoys.itch.io/crazy-dice
|
|
|
Post by larrybtoys on Sept 29, 2024 13:11:23 GMT 1
|
|
|
Post by larrybtoys on Sept 29, 2024 18:37:29 GMT 1
|
|
|
Post by larrybtoys on Sept 30, 2024 1:08:23 GMT 1
2 more casino/card games are being beta tested now and should be released in a few days on Itch. Caribbean Stud Poker and Let It Ride Poker. Both very popular casino games.
|
|
|
Post by larrybtoys on Oct 1, 2024 0:30:33 GMT 1
Just released Depth Charge on Itch. This is a computer version of a very old text style game that simulates dropping depth charges on a enemy submarine. larrybtoys.itch.io/depth-charge
|
|
|
Post by larrybtoys on Oct 2, 2024 19:16:35 GMT 1
|
|
|
Post by larrybtoys on Oct 2, 2024 20:10:04 GMT 1
|
|
|
Post by larrybtoys on Oct 3, 2024 11:56:17 GMT 1
I wrote this game quite a while for some silly fun and decided to polish it up and release it on itch. It's called Firing Range. larrybtoys.itch.io/firing-range
|
|
|
Post by larrybtoys on Oct 3, 2024 11:57:44 GMT 1
I only have 2 Casino style Poker games left to publish on Itch and I will be done until online games are available. The rest f the games I have written were pretty early in my GB32 days I just don't feel they are worthy...
|
|