How to make a simple car game!

Hi,

I have just come up with an idea for a really cool game. It may not appeal to everyone, but me and my friend will be learning to drive soon, so I thought a driving sim, but reeealy simple.

All it would have is a road, a small city made of brown buildings (of infinite height) and some stop signs and stuff..

I would really like to do this in C++, but I don't know anything about it, and dont want to learn it (yet!)

I have used DarkBasic, and I loved it, but I only had a demo.
If someone has a 'used' serial code for darkbasic, or could explain in fine detail how to create such a game, then please reply.

I would really appreciate some links on VB Directx Programming..
I can only find C++ Directx

Thanks heaps in advance!

alrighty then, how did you guys learn DirectX??
(in VB)

Thanks,

www.directx4vb.com ;)

Thanks!!

BTW: What do you guys think of DarkBASIC??

It sucks: limitied features, royalties (maybe they got rid of it), no OpenGL, no lighting (again, may have it). Also, your whole program must be 1 piece of code.

Also, the 3D engine they use is SLOWWW!

Check out planetsourcecode.com's VB tutorials. I remember seeing a couple tutorials on DirectX there.

well, I've had a look at some directX and I think I will learn it, but not right away. It is just too much to shove into my brain, while I am studying for 3 tests :)

Is there another 2D (top-down view) game creator out there??

I dont like DarkBASIC, because of the slowness (I see what you guys mean)
and VB can't rotate picture boxes.

I thought of using DX for the input (my steering wheel ;)), but, I can't rotate the pictures so I moved onto directX which is really hard anyway. :(

Is there a way to have a 2D directX with lighting?

I sort of have the hang of 2D directX, and using it would be so much easier. If this is possible, could someone find me a site which explains about how to rotate 2D 'things'

Thanks for all of your help in this topic,

http://www.Blitzbasic.com

they have a 2d game creator and a newer blitz3d game creator.
they both out perform darkbasic, and I would suggest one of those. :)