Forces of Darkness
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android
This BBC BASIC game, by David Williams ('BasicBoy'), won first prize in the SyntaxBomb Halloween-themed Code-a-Game competition in 2017. It is described by its author as "A side-scroller/shoot-'em-up in which you must defeat waves of dark and terrifying forces. You must cast them back to hell with your high-energy plasma projectiles."
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Install instructions
The Windows, MacOS and Android versions are self-installing; the Windows version may be quite slow to install. The Linux version should be unzipped into an empty directory. On Linux the SDL2, SDL2_ttf and SDL2_net libraries must also be installed.
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It doesn't work on Windows 10 (64). It looks like a file is corrupted or missing (maybe audio.lib ? but the message is printed in a too condensed way).
Finally solved, directory renamed from "Téléchargements" to "Downloads" it works... :-)
BBC BASIC (when running on Windows) doesn't support Unicode filenames (or pathnames) - this is because Windows uses UTF-16 when all the other supported platforms use UTF-8.
Yes, a Windows problem and with no clear error message it tooks me a little while to find the problem. Thank you for your message, it's solved now, and for the IDE too, obviously it refused to work at first... :) Thank you for BBCSDL, it's something great. King regards. Cédric
I have rebuilt the Forces of Darkness executable so that it will run successfully from (for example) the Téléchargements directory, I will upload it to Itch in the near future. Making the BBCSDL IDE run is more difficult!
OK thank you but don't worry too much, avoiding problematic names it works ;-)
Oh, wow. This is good! Pretty hard, too, but not absurdly so like, say, R-Type.