DarkBASIC Professional

DarkBASIC Professional is a Windows compiler that helps users design 2D and 3D games by transforming source code written in a programming language into another target language for creating executable programs. It allows programmers to insert sound effects, music and animation, and create multiplayers.

Although it comes packed with many dedicated parameters, the user interface is clean and straightforward. You can start a new project by specifying the name, picking a saving directory, inserting comments, and creating a to-do list.

DarkBASIC Professional enables users to insert cursors (ICO or BMP), and use a wide range of commands related to text messages (e.g. transparency, size), file manipulation (e.g. execute files, move, copy, delete, open), display (e.g. specify the screen type and size, set gamma, maximize or minimize windows), sound (e.g. pause, stop, play, loop, record), and image (save, delete, paste), as well as commands related to sprites, animations, cameras, FTPs, and multiplayers.

The application gives you the possibility to write your own programs by inserting statements (commands and their data), arithmetic, relation and Boolean operators, as well as arithmetic, string or user-defined functions. What’s more, you can write statements in your program to be ignored when run, and create arrays, lists, stacks and queues.

Other important features worth mentioning let you use syntax highlighting, create backups, cut, copy, or paste the selected information, perform search and replace operations, undo your last action, and run the executable program.

All things considered, DarkBASIC Professional comes packed with a complete suite of tools designed to help programmers create 2D or 3D games.