Tutorial: How to make a Verticle Shooter!

I have completed a comprehensive walkthrough tutorial on how to make a verticle shooter, step by step! This tutorial is indexed with a table of contents and includes the source.
check it out here:
http://www.shmup-dev.com/wiki/index.php?title=Tutorials:BlitzMAX:Creating_a_Vertical_Shooter

No knowledge of BlitzMax is required, and no media is needed to download! Once you finish this tutorial you will know how to use Types. You'll also know how to make a group of enemies and handle each one's attributes like their position and their hitpoints. you'll learn how to make dynamic explosions, and a playership that moves left and right and shoots!

It was designed in wiki, so you have my permission to copy and paste the wiki-source over to blitzwiki.

Matt,
Thanks for sharing.

the full sourcecode listing has 2:

Type TEnemy Extends TGameObject

and no TGameObject or TExplosion

after a bit of cut and past from the snippets i got
it running though.

ps thanks for the tut ;-)

Fixed!!! thanks KingNothing! :)

I have tested the source and it works perfectly!!

Thanks man, good job

Can someone give me an updated link to the vertical shooter tutorial? This one is dead.

yes, has anybody saved this tutorial and could reup it?

If anyone can send me this tutorial I will able to get it online within a few days.

http://web.archive.org/web/20060228013801/http://www.shmup-dev.com/wiki/index.php?title=Tutorials:BlitzMAX:Creating_a_Vertical_Shooter

Here you are, courtesy of the Wayback Machine :)

I followed this tut back when I first got BlitzMax, it's a fantastic intro for newbies.

has this gone forever then?

Cheers
Charlie

I still have a copy on a backup CD, I'll post it sometime tomorrow (gotta dig for it first)

Sorry it took me a while... Couldn't find the blasted CD :p

I zipped up the archive.org copy of the tutorial, and put it on RapidShare. Have at it :)

http://rapidshare.com/files/24946182/ShmupTut.zip.html

Thanks Ricardo_C, I've been looking for this tut.

I've edited out all the links that no longer exist and fixed the menu links that weren't working.
I have uploaded this to my web spacefor you guys.

http://www.cold-incision.com/shmup.html

Thanks for the link! Saved to my HD now.

Very nice, thank you.