Gibbon Games

For a while now I’ve wanted to port my favourite plasma algorithm (which is the heart of my screensaver Angelicus) to Blitzmax. I’m happy to say I have finally done just that. You can download the code here: gibbongames.mod.

To get the code to run, unzip the download into the Blitzmax\mod folder. For reference, this is what the full path looks like on my XP installataion:

C:\Program Files\BlitzMax\mod\gibbongames.mod\plasma.mod

Open up Blitzmax and hit Ctrl-D to compile the module. Then open gibbongames.mod\plasma.mod\Examples\plasma.bmx and compile it to run the demo.

There’s lots of fun to be had playing with the various settings in the plasma.Create() call. So by all means experiment.

Windows users without Blitzmax can run this tiny demo program to see what I am talking about: plasma.zip.

Thanks to Michael Bevin for the C source.

Below is a flash port by Michael http://www.flashgameblog.at/blog-post/2009/12/02/plasma/ It chooses random plasma settings, not all of which look that great. Refresh page to see the variation.

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