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[nopel]

Hi all. I'm looking for tutorial to a game, like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JchYBOxNrAg
with using Pictureboxes (no DirectX).
Greetings.
I found this : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0BlJuwA ... re=related, and that is that, but how to scroll a background?? Background will be form1 background image.
Scrolling, (this effect what i want) is shown in first link at 0:12
And how to do that the killed animal, is going up? Maybe some timer, and at ticks make picturebox postion up?
How to do label with score given (I mean this numbers up to the dead animal) position? Maybe picturebox postion x +1 or someting like this?

[clanc789]

Cody can show you how, he made something like that once.

[CodenStuff]

You are best off making the game within a usercontrol which is then placed onto the form and used to pan/move the background.

Example if you add a usercontrol to your project and add your background image to it then resize it to fit the background image then add a timer to it and the following code:

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    Public Declare Function GetAsyncKeyState Lib "user32" (ByVal vKey As Integer) As Integer

    Private Sub Gamepanel_Load(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
        Timer1.Enabled = True
    End Sub

    Private Sub Timer1_Tick(sender As System.Object, e As System.EventArgs) Handles Timer1.Tick
        If CBool(GetAsyncKeyState(Keys.Left)) Then
            If Me.Location.X < 0 Then
                Me.Left += 5
            End If
        ElseIf CBool(GetAsyncKeyState(Keys.Right)) Then
            If Me.Location.X + Me.Width > Parent.Width Then
                Me.Left -= 5
            End If
        End If
    End Sub

After adding the usercontrol to your main form and running the project you can use the arrow keys to move it left or right.

As for the floating numbers etc you could make that in another usercontrol with a timer added to make it "float" upwards.

Heres a really quick example project I made and you may need to install Visual Studio 2012 to open it :?

WindowsApplication1.zip

Pictureboxes are good but for a game you are better off using GDI+ (paint events) so its nice and smooth.

Heres another old project of a game I made called BJungle which is a basic platform game and uses the paint events...code is messy lol.

Bjunglesource.zip

[Usman55]

If you're going to use a lot of pictureboxes, keep this in mind, VB.net transparency sucks. The flying birds won't be smooth at all. As Cody said, go with GDI+.