MPQC Posted November 12, 2010 Content Count: 2167 Joined: 03/24/08 Status: Offline Share Posted November 12, 2010 Go to a local community college or something and take game design classes Or just learn it yourself. Link to comment
Cromyth Posted November 12, 2010 Content Count: 2942 Joined: 06/07/09 Status: Offline Share Posted November 12, 2010 Or just learn it yourself. Since someone already stated that basically I decided to give another option. Link to comment
Nishok Posted November 12, 2010 Content Count: 3178 Joined: 08/06/08 Status: Offline Share Posted November 12, 2010 Go to a local community college or something and take game design classes Wheree I live it's hard to find + fucking expensive. Link to comment
Sarah Posted November 20, 2010 Content Count: 1443 Joined: 06/03/08 Status: Offline Share Posted November 20, 2010 idk if this is still of interest to you, but in any case i've been teaching myself C/++ for the last 2-3 years and been developing my own 3D game engine in C/++ with DirectX 9, so a few things i'd recommend you should know before wanting to make a game. you should be familiar with: class inheritance pointers and references function pointers dynamic memory allocation data structures and more... depending on how hardcore you are, you might want to do everything yourself to which you'll need APIs, some of the most popular are OpenGL SDL DirectX Allegro SMFL WinSock2 if you want to just get it done faster get a game dev lib like DGDK. the difference is in DGDK(and others alike) with have a load of functions 'premade' for you ie: DrawGUI(), in hardcore-mode you'll have to make that function yourself. 1 Link to comment
Nishok Posted November 20, 2010 Content Count: 3178 Joined: 08/06/08 Status: Offline Share Posted November 20, 2010 Thanks. Link to comment
Tweezy Posted November 20, 2010 Content Count: 3791 Joined: 08/08/09 Status: Offline Share Posted November 20, 2010 http://www.youtube.com/user/thenewboston#p/ I've been following some fucking amazing Java tutorials, he also has c++ 1 Link to comment
Nishok Posted November 21, 2010 Content Count: 3178 Joined: 08/06/08 Status: Offline Share Posted November 21, 2010 http://www.youtube.com/user/thenewboston#p/ I've been following some fucking amazing Java tutorials, he also has c++ Nice find, this could even help me with lots of more things (XHTML, CSS, Java, etc)! Link to comment
jazzy Posted November 24, 2010 Content Count: 2183 Joined: 06/28/09 Status: Offline Share Posted November 24, 2010 w3schools.com is the best place for web-based development. Also gamemaker is more than just drag and drop, you can also code games as well, I have a friend who made a very nice game (Stick Online, closed right now, but it's fun). Link to comment
Eldest Posted November 25, 2010 Content Count: 2686 Joined: 03/22/08 Status: Offline Share Posted November 25, 2010 How to make OpenGL work in NetBeans? I downloaded all the OpenGL stuff with cygwin. Link to comment
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