BYOND Resource Repository

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The Blue Book - The one-stop guide for learning the basics of DM.

• HTML Edition
• PDF Edition

DM Reference - The manual that explains what each variable and procedure does.

• Online
• An offline version of this reference can be accessed by pressing F1 in Dream Maker.

Interface Reference - Controls and parameters guide for skins.

• Online
• An offline version of this reference can be accessed in the Help menu in Dream Maker.

DM Snippet Directory - Useful code samples by our users.

Webclient Developers' Guide - Creating games that are playable in the browser!

Resources by Developers

Crispy

• Code Red - A guide to runtime errors

Dantom

• Your First World - An introductory tutorial from the head honchos.

Deadron

• Step BYOND - A complete, well-documented source code showing the basics of making a game with DM. Expands upon the Your First World tutorial.
• Using Libraries: A Don't Do It Yourself Guide
• Basic Debugging Tips
• How to Fail at Game Programming

Doohl
(Note: this series of articles is currently incomplete).

• BYOND 507 and you :: Webclient Lesson #1
• BYOND 507 and you :: Webclient Lesson #2

Falacy

• Tutorial 1 - New Project
• Tutorial 2 - Player Interactions
• Tutorial 3 - Variables and Procedures
• Tutorial 4 - Displaying Stats
• Tutorial 5 - Saving and Loading
• Tutorial 6 - Animating Icons
• Tutorial 7 - Attacking to Death
• Tutorial 8 - Enemy AI
• Tutorial 9 - Interface and Macros

Forum_account

• Programming Tips #1 - If Statements
• Programming Tips #2 - Making Progress
• Programming Tips #3 - Design
• Programming Tips #4 - Datums
• Programming Tips #5 - Organization
• Programming Tips #6 - Procs and Organizing Code
• Programming Tips #7 - Comments and Whitespace
• Programming Tips #8 - Loops and Ifs
• Programming Tips #9 - The Map Editor
• Programming Tips #10 - Variable Names
• Programming Tips #11 - Bringing It Together
• Programming Tips #12 - Arguments
• Game Development Tutorial
• Design

Gazoot

• Fuzzy Logic in Your Game

Gughunter

• The Man in the Icon Mask - The Ol' Switcheroo
• The Man in the Icon Mask - The Seamy Side of Icon Editing
• The Man in the Icon Mask - Pickin' and Grinnin'

IainPeregrine

• The parent_type Variable
• All Rectangles are Squares
• Take Control!
• Functional Specifications
• Simple Pixel Movement

Kunark

• DM Programming Tutorial (Part I)
• DM Programming Tutorial (Part II)
• DM Programming Tutorial (Part III)

Lummox JR

• Your First Isometric World
• Second HUD: BYOND's newest feature demystified
• Using Scores and Medals in Your Game
• Dream Tutor - What Good is the Browser?
• Dream Tutor - usr Unfriendly
• Dream Tutor - The Pitfalls of Savefiles
• Dream Tutor - Green Programming
• Dream Tutor - Learn to Love Associative Lists
• Dream Tutor - Do You Hear What I Hear?
• Dream Tutor - Bulletproof Code
• Dream Tutor - Datums Are Our Friends
• Dream Tutor - For the Math of It
• Dream Tutor - All Together Now
• Dream Tutor - The Other Mystery Meat
• Making Skins in BYOND 4.0 - Lesson 1
• Making Skins in BYOND 4.0 - Lesson 2
• Making Skins in BYOND 4.0 - Lesson 3
• Making Skins in BYOND 4.0 - Lesson 4
• Undocumented: matrix()
• Under the hood: Appearances and you
• Build your own conquest game
• Color matrix tips

Mike H

• Cheating the Cheater

Nadrew

• Movement and Loops
• Screen Objects and Code Tree Reorganization
• Icon states, Savefiles, and DMCGI
• Advanced DMCGI

Shadowdarke

• BYOND Player Movement

SilkWizard

• The "GM" Curse

splattergnome

• Idea Breeding - Fun with Corpses
• Idea Breeding - The Compleat Salesman
• Idea Breeding - The Water of Life
• Idea Breeding - Goin' Solo... Together

Super Saiyan X

• The Red Book - Undocumented features galore!
• Compiler Errors & Warnings

Ter13

• Saving the world Part 1: Getting to know savefiles
• Saving the world Part 2: Are we there yet?
• Snippet Sunday #1: Overlays and the neglected FLOAT_LAYER
• Snippet Sunday #2: Learning to love the map editor.
• Snippet Sunday #3: It's not a damn database!
• Snippet "Sunday" #4: The scheduler owns your soul
• Snippet Sunday #5: All about that /image
• Snippet Sunday #6: "Why is my code slow?"
• Snippet Sunday #7: Code Interfaces
• Snippet Sunday #8: The observer pattern
• Snippet Sunday #9: Stretch to fit? More like blur to shit.
• Snippet Sunday #10 - The login process demystified
• Snippet Sunday #11 - Operators, thinking outside of the brackets
• Snippet Sunday #12 - Binary
• Snippet Sunday #13 - Appearance Churn
• Snippet Sunday #14 - Map Editor Cheat Sheet
• Snippet Sunday #15 - Temporary effects
• Snippet Sunday #16 - Masking
• Snippet Sunday #17 - Smooth multiplayer framerate
• Snippet Sunday #18 - Mouse params suck. Stop using them.
• Snippet Revisit - A look at previous Snippet Sundays through a modern lens
• Snippet Sunday #19 - Time

Tiberath

• Getting hub data with PHP
• Decent Game Design - Player Entry
• It works, so it must be right!

Unknown Person

• Bit Flags
• Programming & Designing Browser Interfaces: Part One
• Programming & Designing Browser Interfaces: Part Two
• Programming & Designing Browser Interfaces: Part Three

Xirre

• Tips & Tricks: Learning the difference between usr and src.

Zilal

• ZBT - Action/RPGs
• ZBT - Strategy/Board Games
• ZBT - Text MUDs
• The New Book - Chapter 1
• The New Book - Chapter 2 (Part I)
• The New Book - Chapter 2 (Part II)
• Z-Tips - Helpful Help Files
• Z-Tips - Numbers on the Map
• Z-Tips - Buttons in Statpanels