Dark Basic
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| Industry | Software development |
| Founded | Lancashire, United Kingdom (1999) |
| Founder | Lee Bamber, Richard Vanner |
| Headquarters | Macclesfield, Cheshire, United Kingdom |
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Key people
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Lee Bamber (Managing Director) Richard Vanner (Financial Director) |
| Products | Video game development software, modelling software |
| Website | TheGameCreators.com |
The Game Creators, Ltd. (often stylised "tgc") is a British game development software company formed through a partnership between programmer Lee Bamber and Rick Vanner in 1999, located in Macclesfield, Cheshire, United Kingdom. The company was formerly known as Dark Basic Software Limited. The company primarily develops and markets game development tools for Windows. Among others, it has developed DarkBASIC Professional, its predecessor DarkBASIC, App Game Kit, FPS Creator (and its successors FPS Creator X10 and GameGuru) and The 3D Gamemaker.
The company also electronically publishes a number of other game development tools and utilities made by other parties, such as 3d modeling tools and media. In the past, they published a small number of computer games.
DarkBASIC was released in 2000 as a game creation programming language. The language is a structured form of BASIC and is similar to AMOS on the Amiga. The purpose of the language is game creation using Microsoft's DirectX from a BASIC programming language. It is marketed on its ability to allow a total novice to make playable games after following its tutorials. It can create both 2D and 3D games, providing function libraries that enable a game to be programmed with considerably less code than with a language such as C++ without such dedicated libraries. DarkBASIC consists of an IDE, debugger and interpreter, and an engine built on DirectX 7. The compiler emits Bytecode that is appended to an interpreter to create a stand-alone executable. Star Wraith is an example for a game made with it.
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