The Black Annex (A QBasic Game!)

[Mr. Magniloquent]

So I found out someone made a game that looks a lot like OG Syndicate in QBasic! I'm 10 years late on this news, but I find it incredible. Q-Basic was one of the most painful languages I ever used to do anything graphical. I had a better time trying to recreate Galaga on a TI-83 calculator than original Donkey Kong (1981) on Q-Basic. I am astounded. Check out this trailer! I've also got an article about it linked below. The host site appears to be down and the steam page looks defunct. I can't imagine the torture some poor misguided soul experienced to produce this in that language.


https://www.pcworld.com/article/457418/black-annex-is-the-best-qbasic-game-youve-ever-seen.html

 

[Avonaeon]

Doesn't seem like it ever came out. Shame.

 

[Atrachasis]

I'd wager that he actually used QB64, not the original QBASIC. QB64 is backwards compatible, but has much more extensive native I/O functionalities (I believe it uses SDL). It's actually quite a decent language. I have a full-blown web application server written in QB64 running in a productive environment.

 

[FritzedProcess]

Oh, man, I was looking forward to this one back in the day, but I eventually forgot about it due to a lack of news.