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Title: Programming Games for beginers?
Post by: Shredder1 on March 11, 2005, 11:58:45 am

Hey all,

I've never attampted anything like this before, but I was thinking of putting together a rough side scrolling game with my 3D characters just for fun.  Are there any good tutorials out there that can help get me started?

Thanks :)
Neil

Title: Re: Programming Games for beginers?
Post by: RayB on March 11, 2005, 12:30:59 pm

Umm, do you have any programming experience at all?

Title: Re: Programming Games for beginers?
Post by: SirPoonga on March 11, 2005, 01:25:50 pm

Do a search.  Tons of referenced out there. 
http://www.gdse.com
http://www.gdmag.com

And many colleges these days offer courses.

Title: Re: Programming Games for beginers?
Post by: Shredder1 on March 11, 2005, 01:55:46 pm

Nope, never attempted anything like this before.  The only other thing that may be considered close is my experience with Director 7, but I doubt that counts..

Title: Re: Programming Games for beginers?
Post by: RayB on March 11, 2005, 03:51:40 pm

Director 7 would count *IF* you made some games with it entirely out of Lingo (that means getting cast members moving around all through Lingo and not through premade animations, etc).

Honestly you need to take baby steps. Learn to get stuff moving around in 2D... pick a language you want to commit to learning... Visual Basic is pretty decent for 2D games now, when used with DirectX or other graphics library.