Question

[vbgladiator]

Hi to all,

I just visited this part of the forum about game programming and downloaded few projects that you guys are working on. I find this very fascinating. The only development I do is business applications.

I have a favor to ask you guys. Could you please tell me where to look to learn game programming. What tools do I need? (besides vb). How do you guys create your maps? What software do you use? Etc.

Thanks in Advance.

[Zaei]

All you really need is VB. To expand, youll want some pictures, etc. Map editors, etc, can all be programmed in VB. I know that i started out making a picturebox walk around when i pressed the arrow keys, and worked from there. You can use DirectX, but a lot of people around here are using BitBlt, and such (correct me if im wrong, anyone). I think that games are a matter of starting small, and building on what you know (and starting over a lot to implement better techniques =).

Z.

[Usako]

Yeah, just start small. My first game was a guess the number game ;). Best way to learn it is to look at code from others and read alot of articles and stuff.

Recommended links:
http://www.gamedev.com
http://www.planetsourcecode.com
and this site ofcourse ^_^.

Also, if you 'copy' code from others try to understand it for 100%, that can be handy in the future.

[Jotaf98]

Hey Usako, shouldn't that http://www.planetsourcecode.com be http://www.planet-source-code.com? ;)

There's also an EXCELLENT Lander game demo here at VB-World. It's what got me started to real game programming :p