FileMaker Snake game – a FM 10 Demonstration

November 26th, 2009 → 2:10 am @ Adam // No Comments

When I first started looking at FM10′s new functions (Trigger, timer, etc), I wanted to create a demo, in which I can implement almost all of these new features. I was currently also looking at my old floppy disks, and found my snake game I wrote in Turbo Pascal when I was a small kid, and thought why not recreate it in FileMaker?

It could demonstrate layout triggers (OnLayoutKeyStroke), Timers (speed of the game)

Heres is what I came up with:

FileMaker based snake game screenshot

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Filemaker MineSweeper clone

November 24th, 2009 → 5:25 am @ Adam // 2 Comments

Though about creating a board game in FileMaker to demonstrate the capabilities of FileMaker Pro.
Started it, finished in about 2 hours.

FileMaker based minesweeper game

So here it is, actually it’s pretty straight forward and fully unlocked so you can check it.

The main fields of the database are the Display, and the Game Repeating field. The Display shows the board, while the Game contains the yet unrevealed fields, mines.

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