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Game Programming advice

PostPosted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 10:07 am
by FireFoxx
i want to start game programming can you guys give some advice on how to start, the software needed, etc.
i am willing to spend some money on it if needed and am serious about learning it

PostPosted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 10:13 am
by crait
ok, theres two roads to go on, the highway, or the graval road

seariously, you should go to evilmana.com
they will teach you lua, in english!

once youve got a hold of that, then you can go to psp-programming.com, and start the c/c++ tutorials, which are pretty complicated

and then, once your done, you can give me your money!

PostPosted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 10:39 am
by Mailas
Im very well trained at C/C++ but I learned from a course about 2 years ago, I think where you should start would be Sams Teach You'reself C++ In 10 Minutes.
It teaches each lesson in less than 10 minutes, its very easy to read and very understandable, but it cost me like $20, so if you want to start out fresh I suggest you go to www.cprogramming.com
Thats the First Tutorial on C++. It shows how to print output to the screen, declare variables, using the "cout" demand and everything else.
In that tutorial, they use a differrent system then what I use.
I like to use this peice of code to make a line of characters print to the screen:
  Code:
#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int main(int argc, char*, argv[])
{
cout >> "My name Is \"Mailas\" " << endl;
return 0;
)

Which would print out:
My name Is "Mailas" and then return the value of 0, but it will automatically run and exit in a split second.
You will learn more about loops and how to pause, input to the screen, keyboard input, types of variables etc. on cprogramming.
I didnt start out there but I looked at their tutorials and compared them to my courses I took of programming and they should be pretty useful for begginners.

Before you start programming I suggest you get something called: Blood Shed C++ or Dev C++ for short, its a compiler which will compile you're lines of code into a .exe file (executable file) for you to run. It will run in DOS form though.
Cprogramming should help you.

PostPosted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 7:23 pm
by FireFoxx
what programs do i need to do this stuff and mailas is i dont get anything on the page of site you gave me lol so this might take me a while.

PostPosted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 7:25 pm
by danjo33
psp-hacks.com/forums has a thread for this
u should check it out

i was usin it till i got banned

PostPosted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 7:29 pm
by crait
now we ask, should you be alllowed here?

PostPosted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 7:33 pm
by danjo33
y

im just helpin him out
he said he needed advice so i directed him to help

im not advertising or sh*t like that

im helping

PostPosted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 7:37 pm
by crait
lol, im jjust kiddnig

PostPosted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 7:40 pm
by danjo33
good one.....dillwipe

PostPosted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 7:44 pm
by Mailas
Okay, well I could help you on msn about it, but I dont get how you can't understand cprogramming.com
Just go to the link I gave you and it shuld be on the very first tutorial.
It will output text to the screen. Its not hard at all, just read it all and you should understand all of the lines and white spaces in the code.
If it is too hard for you, use the C tutorials.

PostPosted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 2:48 pm
by FireFoxx
you can make video games with c programming correct?

PostPosted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 2:59 pm
by danjo33
hopefully
cause that would be a waste of time learning it on my part


programs im sure

PostPosted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 3:24 pm
by Mailas
Yes you can make games with it but its VERYYYY complicated then usual.
You know nintendo and sony? (lol DUH) well anyways do you know that its fairly easy to make games from them?
You wanna know how its easy?
Simple, they have their own editors they made in C++. But the editors took 1-20-25 years of work max through techonology and it got better and better. The editors they use today are mostly for advanced prorgammers (not at my level certainly) because people at nintendo and sony mostly go through an insitute to be a proffesionall game programmer.
So as you can see game programming is very complicated, Id best stick to Game Maker for making games. The coding language is very simple to understand (but at some times it can be very hard) and don't think you're going to get any of the companies editors lol.

So I dont think any companies use C++ at some times, their editors and programs they have provided do the work for them!

PostPosted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 6:14 pm
by FireFoxx
i bought a book about this stuff for begginers so i will just learn easy things first how did you make your lua games? ex. mario capture the key