Hello,

I'm new, and I just wanted to have some advices for game programming.

thanks you

(I sorry if there are faults, because I'm french, and it isn't very easy for me, to write without faults.)

My advice first would decide on what language you want to write your game in, you're not doing it to program advanced games as of yet, you're doing it to get basic concepts and understanding if you're starting out. Another thing, stick to it, at times it maybe boring, but you will soon develop other ideas and change the way it works. Those old games are great to try to make for beginners, they were simple yet the concepts they held would later on advance.

Whatever language you choose, I think best things for beginners is creating the pac-man game, why, because it involves a lot of what games are made up of, except advanced graphics that is. But it has Collision Detection (staying within an area with walls) and Artificial Intelligence (each ghost had different goals in mind, you'll find out these objectives when learning pac-man) as well as sound. These concepts are still applied in the latest games, but they've been advanced quite a bit now, but get this understanding first, it's much easier than diving in with an SDK hoping to start developing games that are out on the market that were built in a team environment of 10+ people.

Games like space invaders, tetris, card games are all good to work on, remember you're only building up your experience in writing games, say after a year or more, you might be able to develop games like these ones but make them better, and then more years on you'll probably look into 3D libraries and start working on levels/mapping/worlds, models, game engines etc. Well, I suggest get some help with the engine if you do get that far.


MC

If you want to get into making games you should try a program called game maker (its free) and you dont need to learn any code or anything and it gives you the main idea of what game making involves (i think there is a french version too ) but it only makes 2d games http://www.gamemaker.nl/

or read books about game programming

check out gamedev.net as well. there are a whole lot of great articles on programming, graphics, software, game development, and even an faq section for beginners where common questions on how to start have been answered. be sure to take a look at their forums as well. hope this helps!

Yes, GM is a good program if you want to make games. But one thing is not true, you can also make 3D games with GM.

BTW: it doesnt matter that you cant speak english very good, we can understand you, that is what matters.

im french 2! I am actually starting to learn how to program games too. Of what i heard if u just want to do basic program(no or not much coding) go wiht one of those programs that help you create. Or else u will have to learn c++. My fiend is teaching me C (i programmed my first calculator, yay!) because he thinks its better to start with c and then move on to c++.

If you want to make a simple game like space invaders without learning much about programming you can use GameMaker. It's a program to make basic games. You can also make more complicated games with it, even 3D, but then you need to learn GML (GameMaker Language).

You can download the newest version of GM here:
Click here

Or a older version:
Click here

For learning something about it:
Click here

GM homepage:
Click here

I hope i helped you with this.

If you want to make an RPG game try RPG Maker XP its easy has a lot of resouces on the internet and you can edit any part of the game using the ruby coding scripts which is easy to learn using trial and error.

You can find alot resources and scripts on the internet and its very easy to get use to plus it comes with many resources to get you started.

Download it at http://www.cerion.netfirms.com/

I hope that helped

I tried RPG maker and i don't like it, GM is much easier, you can also make other kinds of games, not only RPG's and GML is much more powerfull then that ruby scripting.

When I first wanted to make games I used things like game maker. They are fun for a while, but you'll hit a glass cieling sooner or later. Then you actually need to learn how to program. A very popular language to learn is C++ or C. They are very similar, except C++ is a bit more capable than C. I chose to learn java because it can do cross platforming easy. (Fun Fact: Java used to be called Oak.) If you choose to do java I can give you tutorials on how to program. Good luck.

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