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bennythebear

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From: kentucky,usa
Registered: 12-13-2003
i'm wanting to start programming something(attempting to anyway) but i have no clue what to do as my skill is very limited. y'all ever get those moments where all you want is a screen full of code infront of you? sometimes the thought of programming for a living sounds really boring to me, but once i get started on something i can mess with it for hours. unless i have no clue what i'm doing then i usually quit.

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d000hg
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From: Durham, UK
Registered: 07-27-2004
Pong is good, you can play against a friend. Or did you ever play Jezzball? Makes a change from Tetris which everyone does.
D-SIPL

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From: Maesteg, Wales
Registered: 07-21-2001
quote:
i'm wanting to start programming something

What language will you be using?

I would suggest something simple but fun. I never found pong much fun, but thought of ways that I might adapt it later. So i wrote it, and changed it.

Make sure it's something that interests you and you enjoy making, otherwise you'll get bored.

--D-SIPL

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bennythebear

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Posts: 1225
From: kentucky,usa
Registered: 12-13-2003
pranks are what seems to hold my interest. but those don't really cover anything more than message boxes and looping(visual basic). the only thing in the game making industry that would be really interesting to me is the script writing. oh...all i have is visual basic 6. i started to make a calculator in it, but then i didn't know enough of the language to finish and i only have those books that teach you "this is a command button" type stuff. sorry if my thoughts are random, i should've went to sleep about 6 hours ago .

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Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.

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MadProf
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From: Larnaka, Cyprus
Registered: 01-24-2001
Hey Benny,

I think I know how you feel. I have felt the same many times before.

Have you thought about trying to make a Myst/Riven type game in VB? You could have a window (form?) which has a picture box, and a few buttons ("go left", "go right", "walk forward","walk backward" and so on), and then depending upon where you are in a map, it shows you a different picture? Wow... that is like the worse description I have ever made... oh well. If you know what I'm talking about, you'll understand :-) If not, then it probably wasn't worth me saying anyway.

Cheers,

Have fun,

Dan

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outcast

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Posts: 40
From: Guatemala City, Guatemala
Registered: 12-08-2004
that might be easy on the programing side. But you have to make those graphics and that is a big job. I'm making this type of game and I'm the graphics guy, wow its fun but a lot of work! Jeff

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ArchAngel

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From: SV, CA, USA
Registered: 01-29-2002
make a text adventure game. my first game I made in C++.

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bennythebear

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Posts: 1225
From: kentucky,usa
Registered: 12-13-2003
i think i'd rather do stuff like slickrun. little programs that make computing easier. now all i need is an ingenious idea, and some skill . i think if i do anything serious i do need to learn something other than visual basic. but learning vb is helping me get the basic concepts and stuff of programming. maybe eventually i can write a bunch of little useful stuff then put them all together somehow. anywho, i still have to find my vb6 install dis before i an do anything now.

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proverbs 17:28
Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.

www.gfa.org - Gospel for Asia

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Briant

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From: Stony Plain, Alberta, Canada
Registered: 01-20-2001
quote:
Originally posted by bennythebear:
i think i'd rather do stuff like slickrun.

Good find! Thanks for the link! After just 2 minutes of trying it out, I'm hooked.

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Brian

ArchAngel

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dude, that's pretty sic'!

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bennythebear

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Posts: 1225
From: kentucky,usa
Registered: 12-13-2003
i seen it a good while back on 'the screen savers' before they went all gaming and...well i liked it back when leo laporte and patrick something were hosting it. i haven't used slickrun in a while, i have everything on my quicklaunch bar.

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Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.

www.gfa.org - Gospel for Asia

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D-SIPL

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From: Maesteg, Wales
Registered: 07-21-2001
That does look like a seriously good program.

If you are interested in game scripting, then check out Python. It's got a very BASIC like syntax but is full OOP. It's cross platformable and so easy to learn.

Check it out, even if you just want to write apps.

--D-SIPL

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bennythebear

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Posts: 1225
From: kentucky,usa
Registered: 12-13-2003
python looks pretty interesting, i downloaded the interp...anyway the thing that makes it usable...now i'm downloading 'crimson editor' , does anyone know of a better editor that's freeware?

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proverbs 17:28
Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.

www.gfa.org - Gospel for Asia

www.persecution.com - Voice of the Martyrs

outcast

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From: Guatemala City, Guatemala
Registered: 12-08-2004
My programer is creating our game engine in Python I can ask him what he suggests. He uses Mac and Linux currently. Jeff

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[This message has been edited by outcast (edited January 08, 2005).]

D-SIPL

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From: Maesteg, Wales
Registered: 07-21-2001
PyGame is also worth downloading. I think it's a Python implementation of SDL.

--D-SIPL

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bennythebear

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Posts: 1225
From: kentucky,usa
Registered: 12-13-2003
sdl?

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Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.

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D-SIPL

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From: Maesteg, Wales
Registered: 07-21-2001
Simple DirectMedia Layer:

quote:
Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform multimedia library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, 3D hardware via OpenGL, and 2D video framebuffer. It is used by MPEG playback software, emulators, and many popular games, including the award winning Linux port of "Civilization: Call To Power."
Simple DirectMedia Layer supports Linux, Windows, BeOS, MacOS Classic, MacOS X, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, BSD/OS, Solaris, IRIX, and QNX. There is also code, but no official support, for Windows CE, AmigaOS, Dreamcast, Atari, NetBSD, AIX, OSF/Tru64, RISC OS, and SymbianOS.

SDL is written in C, but works with C++ natively, and has bindings to several other languages, including Ada, Eiffel, Java, Lua, ML, Perl, PHP, Pike, Python, and Ruby.


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