The BSC Games Programming Resource Center is an outreach of BSC Games to the blind and visually impaired community. It's outreach is to help college/university students or hobbiest programmers learn how to program audio games using Microsoft DirectX technologies or open source technologies.

We at BSC Games realize that there is an unlikely chance that sighted game companies will ever build full accessibility into their games. Based on this belief, we want to tap into our community and help nurture and breed new students/programmers on how to create games for the blind or visually impaired. Our mission statement can be conceptualized in the following points:

• Educate student programmers on how to program audio games for the blind and Visually impaired through tutorials and sample projects.
• Encourage the students we school to contribute back to the VI community the games they develop for all to enjoy.
• Give the students free exposure by hosting select games that they develop at our Programming Resource Center.
• Let the blind and visually impaired community freely download the students games.

This section contains various programming tutorials on DirectX. If you have written an article on how to program a game with any language, please feel free to write us about it since we would love to publish it here on the Resource Center. Please send us a copy of the article to resourceCenter@BscGames.com.

• Playing Sound Effects With DirectX 8 and Visual Basic 5 or 6

This section contains downloadable sample projects that you can learn from, view source code, run, add your own creativity to, and learn how to use DirectX technologies hands on in your favorite programming language. We are starting by offering a sample audio game written in Visual Basic 6 using DirectX 8 but would love for other persons to contact us with more sample projects to add here in this section but More importantly, in different programming languages such as c++ or Delphi or whatever language you program in. If you have a sample project that you would like to donate for us to publish, please send us an email to ResourceCenter@BscGames.com.

Name: Chopper Patrol
Author: Justin Daubenmire
Description: Shoot falling helicopters with your tank gun and blast fly by jets with your tank's machine gun. This Visual Basic 6 project shows you how to use DirectX 8, DirectSound 8, and DirectInput 8 to use the keyboard to trap key presses. It shows you concepts such as keeping track of score, lives remaining, loading sound buffers, playing sounds, positioning sounds left to right, working with timers to time game events, and much more.

Coming soon... this section is in place to eventually showcase students games that they have written so VI community members can freely download them and enjoy them. The games in this section may contain the source code for the game as well.

The BSC Games programming resource center is provided as is to students to download and study material on their own time. We do not offer any programming help nor training via email. Although we are not able to offer any programming help via email, if you have any general questions about the BSC Games Programming Resource Center in general, please email us at ResourceCenter@BscGames.com.

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