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  1. Jan 17th, 2001, 10:50 AM #1
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    How do you go about designing a games engine, coz surely you need the game to test it. But you need the games engine to be able to make the game. Is it a viscious circle or am I confussing myself?

    Also are there any good books around on designing game engines(preferably c++)

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  2. Jan 17th, 2001, 11:29 AM #2
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    The engine is the game...

    ...sort of.

    The game is only a "user" of the engine.

    Test the different calls you make to the engine (class or whatever it is).

    What kind of game/engine is it?
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    Here's some game programming resource sites for c++

    http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/allegro/
    http://www.chesworth.com/pv/games/index.html
    http://www.cprogramming.com/
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