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[TheSpaniard]

hi guys,

I'm feeling frustrated early this morning. I can't seem to move forward in my plan to make a game. I believe I'm at the point where I need to creating a team to help me take it further. How do I go about this.

[Nils Pipenbrinck]

You're still very new to C++.

Don't feel bad. Do something different for a couple of days and then get back to practice C++.

You need something to motivate you. I suggest you set yourself a realistic but not to easy goal and start working. Nothing is better to train your programming skills than to program something.

I've always did little fractal / mandelbrot explorer programs as toy-projects when I had to learn a new language. That's fun, looks cool and can be done within a week.

[z80]

Also raytracers are very rewarding :-)

[anubis]

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Also raytracers are very rewarding :-)

Yes... They seem so seductively simple at first but after a few years down the road you notice how much there actually was and still is to master.
Also a lot of the bugs you encounter in ray tracers are not for the feeble minded. Lot's of numerical stability issues :)

To conclude... raytracing is an excellent topic for learning c++. It's gets you to results very quickly, yet has the potential to motivate you for quite some time.