Posted February 13, 2024 by Neils4
Hello everyone! I just added a little white cat named Shiro to Planet Xardiak. You encounter him after you make it past the Robot Farm. As you can see from the video, QB64 slows down when there are too many calculations to be made. It has to account for Nakamura walking, the cat walking, whether or not the status menu is selected, if the player exits the program, and whether or not Nakamura returns to the Pyramids. That's a lot even for QB64. Another skill I have not mastered is masking my graphics so they can move on top of one another. This would especially help when moving graphics over backgrounds. I ordered some books on moving from QBASIC to C and I hope to learn a lot from them. I think it would be funny if Shiro referred to Planet Xardiak as "The biggest litter box he has ever seen" due to all of the sand and dust on the planet. ^_^