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I want to start developing educational type games and giving them away for free. I'm unsure where to start..... What is the language of choice for game development? Anyone got any good tutorials on the web for this and can anyone recommend any books?
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Posted 03 September 2006 - 03:15 PM
WingedPanther
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Java and C++ are used for a lot of game development. It depends somewhat on how you want to distribute the games.
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Posted 05 September 2006 - 08:13 AM
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There are a plethora of tutorials out there for this. Look into directX programming on google.com and you will find a ton of places.
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Posted 05 September 2006 - 01:54 PM
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DirectX? Doesn't that have something to do with spyware? I know it's a graphics thing, but I thought there was spyware by the same name as well.
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Posted 12 September 2006 - 10:57 AM
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Use Java, it has actions and functions on it that are very well suitable for graphical uses. Direct x....a virus? lol No no direct x is a graphics driver I believe and it definately is not a virus.
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Posted 12 September 2006 - 01:27 PM
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Have a look as well at the new game development tool microsoft has recently brought out, think its still in beta stage at moment, when it gets proper release though will allow non-techie types to produce games for PC's and Xbox 360
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Posted 12 September 2006 - 03:26 PM
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Jimbo said:
Have a look as well at the new game development tool microsoft has recently brought out, think its still in beta stage at moment, when it gets proper release though will allow non-techie types to produce games for PC's and Xbox 360
"Non-techie types" will be able to produce PC and Xbox 360 games. That's amazing, I would love to make an Xbox 360 game.
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Posted 12 September 2006 - 05:30 PM
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DevilsCharm said:
"Non-techie types" will be able to produce PC and Xbox 360 games. That's amazing, I would love to make an Xbox 360 game.
Dont think it will enable users to create commercial quality games, something similar to a shareware title I would imagine. I think Microsoft have plans to allow users to then sell or trade there games on xbox live.
Really looking forward to this coming out, should be interesting
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Posted 13 September 2006 - 07:56 PM
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DirectX is a tool that allows you to easily include graphics and sound in your programs.
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Posted 30 September 2006 - 05:18 AM
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If you want make a pc game quickly you can use cheap game engines. Dont try to use c++ for writing game code unless you want use it later or learn graphic programming.
technology is nothing when is prisoner
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Posted 02 October 2006 - 02:15 PM
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prodo said:
If you want make a pc game quickly you can use cheap game engines. Dont try to use c++ for writing game code unless you want use it later or learn graphic programming.
I agree, using C++ would involve a lot of work that usually takes TEAMS of programmers to do. Get an engine!
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Posted 04 October 2006 - 11:27 AM
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Buy a game engine. This sounds costly to start developing games! I want to develop logic games that are fairly simple.
