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I'm taking a 2 year IT course in high school, and for my inpendent project this semester I'm attempting to program a game in Visual Basic. I have afew of the basics down, such as movement and collision detection, but I'm having trouble figuring out how I would go about making maps, and transferring from map-to-map. I'm also pondering on how I would go about making little screen objects, similar to the HUD we use on BYOND. Any help/info that you provide would be appreciated.
Use the Windows API. Learn how to use the BitBlt functions.

Just copy whatever graphics over you want where you want them. You have to create all the framework yourself though, functions that keep track of your graphics and keep updating them.

http://www.rookscape.com/vbgaming/tutA.php
http://www.rookscape.com/vbgaming/GBeebe/bitblt.php
SSJ Radditz wrote:
I'm taking a 2 year IT course in high school, and for my inpendent project this semester I'm attempting to program a game in Visual Basic. I have afew of the basics down, such as movement and collision detection, but I'm having trouble figuring out how I would go about making maps, and transferring from map-to-map. I'm also pondering on how I would go about making little screen objects, similar to the HUD we use on BYOND. Any help/info that you provide would be appreciated.

You'll find information pertaining to what you want at this VB tutorial.