Vision BASIC for the Commodore 64 - Tutorial #2 - Versatile Smooth Scrolling Part 2 - Game Program

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This is Part 2 of my versatile smooth scroll series. Here we focus more on fleshing out a game and I go over some of the challenges of programming on a smoothly scrolling background. I've added some enemies, some lasers and some explosions!

The source "footage" for this video was captured at roughly 30 FPS, so it doesn't show how smooth the game displays on a real C64 monitor. Download the game file from my website (VisionBASIC.net) on the media page (once I make it available) to see how the game is really supposed to look like. I hope to have the D64 available within 24 hours.

If you don't know what Vision BASIC is, visit my website at www.VisionBASIC.net and watch the following videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROR1NQE-2DY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14PaDKQQABY

And down below is a description of what Vision BASIC is all about.

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Vision BASIC is a versatile BASIC compiler for the Commodore 64. Imagine blending together Simon's BASIC with the Blitz! compiler and an assembler all together into one program! But then imagine that it's even much better than that! The programs you create with Vision BASIC won't need a language extension (like Simon's BASIC on cartridge) in order to run when you are done making your programs! You can easily run your programs from within the editor instead of having to funnel your programs through a separate compiler in a completely separate process! And if you need an assembler, Vision BASIC doubles as one! Stick with BASIC, go with assembly language, or do both! Mix it up however you'd like!

Over 100 new commands are added -- commands for sprites, characters, bitmaps, sound and even interrupts! Take that slow BASIC game you made that just never made the cut and try breathing new life into it by putting it in Vision BASIC's hands -- feel the raw power that machine language can provide without having to look at an endless and often confusing column of machine language instructions!

But why keep reading -- just watch the video and see for yourself what Vision BASIC can do!