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3D Drawing in Visual Basic, part 1
This article from "Inside Visual Basic" magazine introduces the fundamental ideas of drawing in 3D space, including the XYZ co-ordinate system and perspective.

3D Drawing in Visual Basic, part 2
The second article from "Inside Visual Basic" magazine introduces the creation of simple 3D shapes, including rectangles, spheres and triangles.  The article also introduces the theory of polygons, the basis of all game rendering.

Ander's Visual Basic Games
This is a great site where you can download the source code to 5 games including Solitaire and Breakout.  You can also play the games directly in your browser using the ActiveX versions.

Creating a Video Game With Visual Basic 4.0
This site is a primer into creating a simple game with VB4.  This site is one of the very few Visual Basic games tutorial sites on the Internet, and I recommend it to anyone who has even wished to create a simple game using VB.

Creating Games in Visual Basic
Your About.com Guide takes a geek peek at one the hottest Microsoft technologies, DirectX, and shows you how to use it to create mega smash hit PC games with humble Visual Basic.

Cyber Joe's VB Game Programming
Download full source to several simple games, such as Space Invaders and Tic Tac Toe.  You can also view the code that makes it easy to implement joystick support in your program.

Fractal Frenzy!
Find out how to create exciting fractal images by reading this article from "VB Developer".  Rod Stephens explains the mathematics that are required to create many different types of fractals, including the Mandelbrot set.

Game Programming Mega Site
This site offers something for every VB programmer wishing to write games.   The GPMS is one of the few sources of quality information about DirectX.

Microsoft DirectX
The official site from Microsoft offers several downloadable programs that demonstrate the power of the DirectX API.  All the code is C based, although it is still useful to be able to see the potential power of DirectX.

Multimedia in VB
Your About.com Guide shows you how to make sweet music using your favorite programming language... with just one line of code!

Space Invaders Source Code
Jim Cook provides us with source code for a fully working version of the classic arcade game.

Using BitBlt
This tutorial from VB Help explains how to use the BitBlt API function, which is used to copy an area of pixels from a specific source to a specific destination very quickly.

VB DirectX FAQ
A tutorial and backgrounder on using the exciting DirectX API with Visual Basic. These tutorials are based on the free type libraries created by Patrice Scribe.

VB Helper
VB Helper is maintained by Rod Stephens, author of many Visual Basic books.   The site offers many downloadable demo projects that demonstrate how to carry out graphics routines.

Visual Basic Area 51
The undercover testing ground of advanced Visual Basic techies who tackle the tricky aspects of VB game and graphics programming, such as DirectX and OpenGL.

Zorro's VB Fun Page
Programming graphics in Visual Basic is often time consuming and very boring.   This site walks you step by step through developing graphics based applications, all the time re-iterating that development is meant to be fun!