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[SushiKitten]

People seem to come here a lot to ask about programming a game (I was one of them), and no one really understands how difficult it actually is. 

 

Anyway, my supervisor gets all these texts since he's a university prof, and he gave me this book because he didn't need it:

 

http://www.pearsonhi...0321512918.page

 

Whether or not you guys are interested, I'm not sure. From the reviews I've found on Amazon, it's not the best to learn C++ from, I guess they don't cover strings until very late and don't cover pointers at all, but it does give you a good foundation for the Dark GDK, and if your end goal is to learn programming to make games, it's probably pretty decent.

 

I'll get to reading it eventually.

 

I thought maybe we could start a thread to start pointing people to when they ask about programming for games. Fill it full of resources or something. 

[inhumanrampager]

http://www.amazon.com/dp/1435457420/

 

I'm thinking of purchasing that. I'm a total newb to C++, and I'm looking ot get into programming myself. I mean i know HTML for the most part, and CSS isn't hard really. But I want a challenge. I need something to keep me busy. Thing is, I'll be doing this in Ubuntu, and it recomends Microsoft Visual C++ or something.

 

Also, I typed this out last night and thought I posted it.....I am teh dumbs.

[SIlhouette]

You should try to buy last years university books on the subject, academic writing is usually a lot easier to learn off of.

[Wolf]

Just keep in mind that if you do it with a different compiler you may have to bend the example code to compile properly. Also keep in mind when they say games they don't mean a 3d shooter kind of thing - tic tac toe, black jack, etc.

 

That said looking at the index it seems like a good book that's going to teach you good habits with OOP.

 

To anyone looking to make a 3D shooter, find a proprietary free engine like Unreal or Source and learn to use it. It's infinitely easier than making an engine from the ground up, and alot more stable. I would only consider making my own engine if I wanted to use a feature that couldn't be implemented in a pre-existing engine.

[inhumanrampager]

If I do plan on going 3d shooter, I do plan on using the Unreal engine. But for starters, I was thinking side scrolling platformer. And I also plan on supplementing that book with something a bit more advanced later on. But what I previewed actually explained things well from the perspective that I knew nothing. Which is true.

[SIlhouette]

Unity Engine is pretty good, Code is in Java or ObjectC (C#), can make games for IOS or whatever, can even make console games on it.

[SIlhouette]

Yeah Javascript not java, didn't re-read before I pressed post.

 

And I know C# is object oriented C so I though ObjectC was another way of saying it. My bad. Forget the ObjectC part then.

[Andux]

http://www.amazon.com/dp/1435457420/

 

I'm thinking of purchasing that. I'm a total newb to C++, and I'm looking ot get into programming myself. I mean i know HTML for the most part, and CSS isn't hard really. But I want a challenge. I need something to keep me busy. Thing is, I'll be doing this in Ubuntu, and it recomends Microsoft Visual C++ or something.

 

Also, I typed this out last night and thought I posted it.....I am teh dumbs.

 

You don’t need a paid for Integrated Development Environment to produce OpenGL programs via Ubuntu. All you need is to download appropriate libraries for the free GCC C/C++ compiler and a text editor. Programs can be compiled via a gcc terminal command including options -lglut and -lGLU. There can be complications on installing libraries. A work around for this, with links to source code, commands used and other Linux/graphics adapter issues,- can be found in my report:

 

http://www.roylongbo... benchmarks.htm

 

Last year a Quality Engineer for Canonical, working on the Unity desktop experience, sought permission to incorporate the benchmark into testing of the desktop. I said “yes” of course, but there is no shooting.

 

Roy

[inhumanrampager]

Well I mean I was under the assumption it was free, which is cool if it is.

 

Also thanks man, I'll definitely be reading into that at some point.