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Play Basic is a Game Programming language designed to take the learning curve out of 2D game making. Allowing users to bring their game ideas to life in a fraction of the time of other basic languages.

When designing Play Basic, we wanted to build a game programming tool that was as jam packed with built in features as possible. So programmers didn't have to spend their time re-inventing the wheel. They could just jump in and start exploring. It's this robust basis that gives Play Basic users a fast track into the world game programming.

Since Play Basics focus is game creation, the language includes a wealth of graphical features & effects. From built in Mapping, Sprites, Image effects, 2D Cameras, Vector Shapes, Texture Mapping through to a full set of traditional 2D vector art. The graphics engine also includes support for various special effects like Alpha Blending (variable, additive, subtractive), Rotation, Scaling, logical masking through to Raster Bar and real time Colour Replacement.

Play Basic not only focuses on the ease of creation, but also upon system compatibility!, by keeping the system requirements as low as possible. This ensures the fun and challenge of creating your own games is open to virtually everybody.

• Extremely fast 2D Blitter
• Sprite Engine (Rotation, Alpha Blending, Scaling, Intelli Collision and more)
• Images (alpha, rotation, fading etc)
• Vector Shapes (Draw custom shapes, from Convex, Concave to Complex polygons)
• Map Engine. (Load, Render, Animate, Manage Tiles with ease)
• True Type and Bitmap Fonts (mix and match them at will)
• 2D Camera Library - Supports up to 16 cameras
• Sound FX - Supports mp3 + wav
• You can build Release or Debug EXEs
• Very low system requirements - basic EXEs need only DirectX 1.0 to run!
• User Defined Types / Functions
• Full String and Math support
• Powerful IDE with all the features you'd expect (search, replace, compile, debugger, integrated help files, etc)
• Libraries including HTTP operations, Image manipulation, Array Management and more

The Play Basic package comes with a comprehensive code editor (IDE Integrated programming environment), Built in Debugger, Mapping Tools as well hundreds of examples and Help files to get you started. If that's not enough, we are always open to your feedback! We want Play Basic to be as powerful, flexible and of course as much FUN as possible.

	The Key Features of Play Basic
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