Brutus2D

Brutus2D

Paradigm	Procedural
Developer	Guilect
First appeared	2004
Stable release	v1.8.7 / February 11, 2009
OS	Windows
Website	pewtersoftware.com at the Wayback Machine (archived February 13, 2007)
Dialects
BASIC
Influenced by
QuickBASIC, GW-BASIC

Brutus2D is a game programming language developed using Visual Basic, VBScript and DirectX.

It is aimed at the amateur programmer who is interested in learning more about programming & game development.

Simple 2D games can be developed in Brutus2D and with the aid of an additional plugin, 3D games can also be created.

Platform

Brutus2D was designed using Microsoft Visual Basic and runs on Windows 2000, Windows XP & Windows Vista.

Syntax

Brutus2D has two distinctive syntaxes, the first is VBScript and is similar in style to traditional Basic. The second is JScript which is Microsoft's dialect of ECMAScript.

Functions & Procedures

Functions & procedures are supported in Brutus2D.

Sound & Music

Support for Sound Effects using Wav files & the following 2 types of music format, Ogg & MIDI can be found in Brutus2D.

Example

option explicit

dim Font1

dim bRunning
bRunning = True

sub main()

	if (graphics.initialize <> True) then exit sub
	
	key.initialize
	Font1 = graphics.createFont ("System", 14)
	
	do while bRunning = True
		if key.pressed(1) or key.pressed(0) = True then bRunning = False
		graphics.clear 255
		graphics.settext "Hello world", 10,10,Font1
		graphics.display
	loop
		
	key.terminate
	graphics.terminate
	
end sub

Call Main

The code above will display a window on the screen & print "Hello world" in it.

Truevision3D Plugin

By using the Truevision3D plugin you can create 3D environments using Brutus2D.

Network Support

Brutus2D also has support for network programming, Meaning that you can write multiplayer games or multiuser applications

Object Based

The core programming engine is supplemented with hard-coded Visual Basic objects. Like JavaScript Brutus2D is object based. Almost all functions (methods) are part of a related object that does a specific task.

License

Brutus2D used to be available in two versions, one of them was Freeware but extra functions could be added if Brutus2D was registered for a small fee. However, since v1.8.5, Brutus2D has been available to download for free with complete functionality.

See also

• Basic4GL
• Blitz Basic
• Darkbasic
• FreeBASIC
• ThinBasic
• List of BASIC dialects
• List of BASIC dialects by platform

External links

• Brutus2D Home Page at the Wayback Machine (archived February 13, 2007)
• Brutus2D Wikispace