PlayBasic is a game programming language that uses a BASIC-like programming syntax. From the beginning, the development team of PlayBasic has put an emphasis on speed and now the language has grown to include many useful and unique features.

Pros & Cons

Pros

• Has free learning edition that never expires.
• Built for ease of use.
  • The Code Editor well thought out.
  • Has a built-in function for everything.
• Killer vector game support through "shapes". (Yes, it rates "Killer")
• Inherited Types
• Unbelievably useful read / data implementation.
• Built-in tilemap support.

Cons

• Windows only.

Features

Data Types

PlayBasic has the primary three BASIC types : strings, integer and float, which can be used with or without a data type sign :

; with data type sign

stringVar$ = "string!"
integerVar = 42
floatVar# = 4.2

; without data type sign

Dim stringVar As String
Dim integerVar as Integer
Dim floatVar as Float

stringVar = "string!"
integerVar = 42
floatVar = 4.2

PlayBasic features more than just the basic three data types — the current author just can't think of them at the moment. :)

Data Structures

PlayBasic has variables, arrays, types (strucs).

Related Pages

• 2D
• Game Programming Language - other game programming languages
  • CoolBasic, Brutus2D
• List of Free Game Programming Languages - free game programming languages

Links

Official Links

• PlayBasic Website
• PlayBasic Forum

Other

• Our Playbasic Wiki full of tutorials, FAQs, documentation, etc.
• 2D Physics in Playbasic - is what it says