Black Annex is the best QBASIC game you’ve ever seen - watsonaccee1988

What's the most knotty thing you did in the last year? Now stop. Before you answer, can IT compare to creating a full phase of the moon-fledged indie game—slated to be approved on Steam—created entirely with QBASIC? Probably not.

QBASIC is a software system interpreter for the BASIC computer programming speech that showed up in 1991, and first it is. Here's a young video of a game created past IBM to flash the awesome power of QBASIC when it archetypal launched:

You get the idea afterwards approximately 45 seconds. Now, over 20 eld later—but with the literal same programming tools—we have Black Extension. Check out this trailer with actual gameplay—and I can't say IT enough—using the same programming language that the above picture was "display cancelled."

Non only are the simple visuals awesome, but the gameplay actually looks daedal and tough to master—not something you'd look from a programing language with simple loops and statements.

It's an isometric corporate sabotage and infiltration game. What that means exactly I'm not sure but you can choose your own playstyle and outfit agents to "steal, demolish, nobble and kill" as you wish.

But wherefore QBASIC when there are so more other powerful tools out there that would probably be simpler to use? Lance McDonald, the game's creator, hearkened hindermost to when he ready-made games as a kid with QBASIC and wanted to prepar a billet doux to the not bad games of the '90s.

"When I sat fallen to make Black Annex a yr ago, I didn't want to 'learn' how to throw a game—I realized I already knew how to make a mettlesome. I just had to recuperate to the tools I knew" McDonald said. He also mentioned that He mail-clad a QBASIC courageous to Epic MegaGames when he was 9 and never heard cover. He had something to prove.

Black Annex was honorable announced last calendar week and has already gained a lot of steam clean (pun intended) happening Steam's Greenlight plan, where users can voter turnout on smaller games they'd like to get wind made available for purchase on the Steam platform.

"It would glucinium amazing for the stake development community," said McDonald when asked about Black Annex's potential ascension to Steam. "It would show that even old, abandoned tools and the most basic pieces of software can still be instal the hands of someone who wants to create their dream and result in good-looking things occurrence."

A couple more fun facts about the game:

Black Annex requires leastwise a 2.6GHz processor due to the scope of the project and the unoptimized multi-dimensional arrays.
The plot's catchy strain is by Abducted by Sharks
It wish support mods (meaning customized missions, levels, etc.)
The game is a 12000 line .bas (BASIC) file. Yeesh!