Can anyone tell me how to make the game so that you can play it without opening it through B+ (is it called "compiling")?
I'm so dumb
BlitzPlus Forums/BlitzPlus Beginners Area/I'm so dumb uh.... yes? You need to "compile" it into an EXE file.
Under the program menu select 'create executable'.
You probably already know this but it is best not to use absolute paths to files/media in your 'load' statements and instead use relative paths.
For example rather than doing this:
do it more like this:
Otherwise when other people run your executable it will not work if you are specifying a path that does not exist on their machine.
You probably already know this but it is best not to use absolute paths to files/media in your 'load' statements and instead use relative paths.
For example rather than doing this:
image=loadimage("c:\program files\blitzplus\samples\mygame\gfx\image.bmp"
do it more like this:
image=loadimage("gfx\image.bmp")
Otherwise when other people run your executable it will not work if you are specifying a path that does not exist on their machine.