Where did people start when learning how to do games for VB?

[FlashX]

Hi all,

I’m a little confused. I have used VB before but I am new at creating games for it, Where do I start?

Does anyone have a good reference for a simple game to make?

Also what kind of games can be created for VB

Any other help would be great also.

Thanx

Aiden

[axion_sa]

http://www.directx4vb.com/

[DOE]

I personally started making games without using DX and I found it very simple. www.vbexplorer.com has a lot of good tutorials that you should find helpful.

I also found a lot of other turorials by just searching yahoo or google.

Deciding on the type of game you want should be your first step

[Hu Flung Dung]

Originally posted by FlashX
Hi all,

I’m a little confused. I have used VB before but I am new at creating games for it, Where do I start?

Does anyone have a good reference for a simple game to make?

Also what kind of games can be created for VB

Any other help would be great also.

Thanx

Aiden

I wouldn't suggest starting game programming with DirectX!

The GDI (Windows API graphics functions) would be much easier to learn although it does have some very unusual complexities as well. Its easily powerful enough for any (err. most. Any reasonable) 2d game.

[Machaira]

As axion_sa posted, start with www.directx4vb.com. Don't waste your time with the GDI. DirectX is just as easy, if not easier to learn than the GDI and much more powerful.

[FlashX]

thanks for you help guys, now all i need to do is find out what looks the easiest.

[alkatran]

I started programming games as soon as I found QBasic on ym dad's old computer, I taught myself everything using the help file.... (my first program woudl crash cause it never let functions end... just called the normal one again... lol...

I got better at it of cours.e. learned what a variable was (LOL) etc...

of course cause of tihs I had horrible coding habits... Iwouldn't recommend this. lol

[Kevin_0011]

Or...better than learning DX, you could learn OpenGL. Some people (myself included) find OpenGL easier because you can simply issue commands rather than interact with various objects. Check out nehe.gamedev.net, however most of their tutorials were primarily written with a VC++ programmer in mind........however, that doesn't matter, because all the actual commands are the exact same. However, if you do decide to use OpenGL, you may want to look for (or ask me ) a type library called "vbogl.tlb"

[petrus]

I think my first game in VB was a breakout in Excel