Little advice needed?

[invitro]

I'm hoping to start some game programming in VC++... but I can't find some good tutorials on how to do so. I don't want to use DirectX just yet.... all I want is to be able to make simple character games and so on to make me more comferatble with the language.

Any advice, links would be helpfull...............
thanks!!!

[Zaei]

Since you arent comfortable with C++, you will want to start out making simple text based games. One idea i saw a while back was a game in which you fought monsters against each other (al la Pocket Monsters), and trained them when not fighting. I would suggest giving that a try, and see how it goes. A simple menu, Fight, Train, Exit, and a simple battle system (training would be a battle against a robot, perhaps), and you are good to go. Try and make it modular, and read monsters from files, for instance.

Z.

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For C++ help in general (even for simple games), post in the C++ forums here. Youll get a faster answer =).