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[SerDeSagitario]

Hello, early in this year i wanted to do a game, with out knowing how hard it is.
By far now i havnt leared anything. And im clearly each day getting more sad about, but i havnt lost hope!.
I was thinking to ask for help.
So thats whats going on!.
I want to do a 3d Action/adventure platform game, with only being able to make a whole world with his respective boss. I will be glad!.
I have been using Blender to make 3d models they are bad but i catch the idea of my game on them.
Just i havnt been able to programm the game and made it work.
Logic brick in blender was supposed to help me to dont need to programm but they was useless.

By now i want to learn to programm a simple side scrolling, were can i lear that?, how?, what should i search?, can any one give me a hand with some scrips?.

Thanks in advance, again from my 3d Action/adventure, i have tried to do, i try a dance dacnde revolution aquiz game and a fighthing game like Super Smash Bross, but i havnt had succed on any.
So help on any kind of game will be good!.
Oh and please sorry for my bad grammar english its not my first languaje.

[juhnu]

You might be able to use some game maker software, that doesn't require you to do any programming, maybe some other people here know some names? Here is one: http://t3dgm.thegamecreators.com/

[Frank Skilton]

An excellent engine for simple 2D, side scrolling games is Torque Game Builder (TGB).

It has a scripting language that is quite easy to learn and comes with good documentation, tutorial and example files.

Another engine worth looking at is DX Studio v2.0

[Nils Pipenbrinck]

I'd say spend some month on learning C or C++. That wouldn't make you a programmer (more experience is needed for that), but it will give you the basic understanding how things work together.

Don't focus to much on games when you start. Writing simple things like sorting a list of numbers and stuff like that it what matters first.

Once you've done the first steps you might even find out that lerning programming is a lot of fun. If you have the staying power, you will be able to write your side scroller and even more complex things all on your own in a year.

[Frank Skilton]

Is C++ a language that can be self taught? I'm not wanting to code an engine from scratch or delve into rendering code - I would however like to have the required C++ skills to code my own game play mechanics like inventories and the like, using a pre-built engine.

I'm currently going through a series of VB tutorials that I found online and am finding it quite easy to digest, so far. I've also used several applications that feature scripting languages and have never had any problems picking up the concepts and am now hungry for more.

Are there any reputable books that one can start learning C++ from that any of the coding gurus here could recommend?

[AndyDX]

SerDeSagitario said:

Hello, early in this year i wanted to do a game, with out knowing how hard it is.
By far now i havnt leared anything. And im clearly each day getting more sad about, but i havnt lost hope!.
I was thinking to ask for help.
So thats whats going on!.
I want to do a 3d Action/adventure platform game, with only being able to make a whole world with his respective boss. I will be glad!.
I have been using Blender to make 3d models they are bad but i catch the idea of my game on them.
Just i havnt been able to programm the game and made it work.
Logic brick in blender was supposed to help me to dont need to programm but they was useless.

By now i want to learn to programm a simple side scrolling, were can i lear that?, how?, what should i search?, can any one give me a hand with some scrips?.

Thanks in advance, again from my 3d Action/adventure, i have tried to do, i try a dance dacnde revolution aquiz game and a fighthing game like Super Smash Bross, but i havnt had succed on any.
So help on any kind of game will be good!.
Oh and please sorry for my bad grammar english its not my first languaje.

i think you are settings your goals to high.
ofcourse it is better to start and improve your programming skills.
you wouldnt benefit from a sourcecode that shows you how to do
sidescrolling if you are not really able to expand the code to make a
sidescrolling game of it.
better set your goals small that you gain fast some nice feadbacks.
why not pick a nice programming language that fit to you ?
than start programm simply games that teach you basics about game programming.
a good start if you have picked a programming language is ofcourse doing a simply board game like tic tac toe.
the game itself ofcourse sucks but it teach you simply how to programm a simply computer ai.
if you have understand how you implement the correct ai for tic tac toe than next step ist to polish the game.
add a simply menu with some tic tac toe logo, add a menu where you can select the beginner, normal hard modus for the computer ai.
doing simply thinks will give you fast some feedbacks and not ending in frustation after few weeks where you find that your goals was to high.
depends on your programming language you should pick SDL for a nice 2D api.

here some links that would help you:
http://en.wikipedia....iki/Tic-tac-toe
http://en.wikipedia....rectMedia_Layer

if you dont have picked up a programming language yet you should look at microsoft website they have C++, C#, VB for free.

http://msdn.microsof...studio/express/

Andy

[SerDeSagitario]

Hey!, Thanks! Thanks! Thanks!, for answer
I will check all the softwares on the weekend and next monday possibly i will tell you how good it was.