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Jaak · Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 11:50 am Post subject: [Suggestions]Game Developement

Hello everyone. I have experience in programming basic applications in C++. My goal is to get into game developement. Starting with simple Open GL games. I have a few ideas like creating a simple tetris game, pinball, or word scrammble but don't know where to start. I've created number guess games, hello worlds, and calculators. Could anyone tell me what kind of knowledge would be needed to create simple 2d games such as these, and later advance to more advanced 3d and DirectX. (I'm not too sure on the termonalogy so correct me if I said something incorrect) My main language I'll be working with is C++ or VC++ (Visual C++ since im using the MVC++ 2008 express compiler). I'm sticking to this only and I don't want suggestions in another language. Ty for your help and any tips would be much appreciated.
Microsoft has helped some too and I plan to continue with their MVC++ tutorials on the side.

Thanks in advance for all the help you may provide.

Chaosis13 · Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 1:26 pm Post subject:

You dont need to use openGL, but try using spirits and backrounds for 2d games.

Jaak · Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 1:41 pm Post subject:

Backgrounds and GUI won't be a probable. I'm asking for help in C++ components. What basics will I need to know to create user interaction games. Ex- Tetris. Making the squares and shapes drop? Making it so when the square reaches the bottom it stops. I think even this might be too advanced to start out with but I'm just throwing examples around X.X

HalfPrime · Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 1:56 pm Post subject:

How tied are you to portable code? I think there's only a few people on this forum with experience coding for linux.

Jaak · Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 2:30 pm Post subject:

threaten2154 · Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 2:51 pm Post subject:

If you guys want to know what he is asking, he is asking what he will need to know to make simple games like tetris, not like backgrounds etc., but like how he should make a block hit the bottom and stop there, instead of going on and on.

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HalfPrime · Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 2:54 pm Post subject:

portable code == code that works on both windows and linux. If you want portable code, you need experience on both systems.
I'm only familiar with windows programming therefore I can't help you and most of the people on this forum can't, either.

Jaak · Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 6:16 pm Post subject:

HalfPrime · Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 9:33 pm Post subject:

roflllll

Flyte · Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 9:48 pm Post subject:

Jaak · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 11:31 am Post subject:

I honestly think I rushed this >.<. I'm kinda asking for tutorials on learning basic C++ but at the same time I'm wondering what I should focus on more for games. D; So I know theres mechanics to GUI and directX and all that but I think i should start with the code first lol.
Any tutorials would be nice ;D ty.

atom0s · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 11:33 am Post subject:

Look at the stickies. There are more then enough tutorial links for C++ in them.

Jaak · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 11:37 am Post subject:

atom0s · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 11:47 am Post subject:

OpenGL Tutorials:
http://nehe.gamedev.net/

DirectX Tutorials:
- Look in the SDK folder for various examples.

http://www.directxtutorial.com/
http://www.drunkenhyena.com/cgi-bin/directx.pl
http://www.ultimategameprogramming.com/demoDownload.php?category=DirectX&page=1

Google is your friend as well, you can easily find tutorials for just about every topic in game creation for any library you use.