Little advice needed?

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!!!

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 =).