As I promised a moment ago, here is "Infinite Space Battle" (aka SpaceFight), a game I made in VB2010 express with DxIce v1.88 engine. It's messy as hell, first proper graphical game I ever completed, so take it for what it is. Get VB set up, and get DxIce set up, and in the MygameTest002/bin folder you will find SpaceFight.exe which starts the game for you to try out. Hint: F11 activates cheat mode, you can then use < > keys to cycle through all possible weapons.
Orange powerups increase weapon damage,
Red destroys all enemies onscreen,
Blue adds to your Shield power,
Green adds to your ship's HP,
Yellow gives you a new weapon in the current weapon slot (you can have 3),
and that's about it. I think I added a F1 help menu in-game, can't recall, it's been a few years since I made this. Enjoy!
I see many people looking for ICE2D (aka DxICE) game engine for VB 2010 / VB 2010 express. Seems like all the web links are down a long time now.
Well if you're hunting this fine game engine, you are in luck! I happen to have a copy of DxICEv188 and I've posted it at the link below. It's a re-package, since I couldn't find the original archive, but I believe it's all there as it should be.
Note to Windows 10 users: When you run the .bat file to register the .dll file, you may get an error. It took me a minute to figure out, but here's what you do...
First, run the .exe that registers the .tlb file. Next, while in the folder containing the .dll files, hold shift key and right click on the open window, so the context menu pops up. You will see the option to "Open Powershell window as Administrator". Do that, and then type "regsvr32 dx9ice188.dll" and it should register just fine. After that, just add it as a resource in VB and you're good to go.
Here's the link, valid as of March 18, 2023:
Terabox.com
I'm running on: Win10 x64, 6GB ram, Dual-Core 1.7GHz cpu, HD4000 onboard graphics, and current version of DirectX (since DX is fully backwards compatible). Engine runs fine, in fact you will notice the examples are as smooth as if they had been done in C++ or C#. I will post a link to an example game I made myself. I had to do things a bit differently than the examples. I tore up the "warp game" example and made a "space invaders" clone from it. Let me find it and throw it on terrabox and I'll post a link...
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