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Dots and Lines Game - Small Basic Featured Program

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Ed Price
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Feb 12, 2019
First published on MSDN on Aug 04, 2013

Authored by Ed Price


Today's featured program comes from Behnam Azizi :





Behnam's Website: sfu.ca/~bazizi



Here is an introduction to the game in his own words:



A Dots and Lines Game developed using Microsoft Small Basic. This time I didn't spend much time on the program, and it was done for learning purposes. So the program might not be free of bugs. For example a simple bug that it has is that you should click next to each line to draw the line (not exactly on the line), otherwise it won't draw a new line.


This game can be played with a friend. The program does not automatically declare a winner, and scores can be changed manually by players (so watch out that your opponent doesn't cheat in the game!!!!)


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Challenges that I had while developing this game:


I had to divide each square into 4 triangular sections. then based on where the user clicks on the screen the program finds out in which of the 4 triangular sections the user has clicked. To accomplish this the program finds the equations for lines that create those 4 triangles, and accordingly decides where to draw each line. Look at the Small Basic code for line equations.



It can be played online at: SNM509


O r downloaded from TechNet Gallery: TechNet Gallery





Like always don't expecpt to get a very amazing game. This was done by an intermediate programmer for learning purposes.




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Thanks Behnam!


Does anyone have any questions or comments for Behnam? Have you tried this game?



- Ninja Ed


Published Feb 12, 2019
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