Making games
What are some free or very low costing game developing programs out their? and can you explain them to me(im kinda new to all of this). And would it be able to create a full game?
This is an extremely vague question.
What are you trying to make, a tic-tac-toe, or a Call of Duty: Black Ops II?
What are you trying to make, a tic-tac-toe, or a Call of Duty: Black Ops II?
I would recommend 3 things:
If you really want to use C++ and code something at low level, why not use a library like SFML? http://www.sfml-dev.org/ (cost = free)
If you just want to make 2D games, then I highly recommend Game Develop: http://compilgames.net/ (cost = free)
If you want to make 3D games, then I recommend the UDK:
http://www.unrealengine.com/udk/ (cost = free, except for commercial games. Commercial games is 99$ + 25% of earnings above 10 000$, if my memory is working alright).
However, whatever your goal is, I would make sure that you are very comfortable with programming first. I just started out writing serious games this year and am doing my second commercial one now. There are great difficulties on the path to making a full, playable, fun, fairly bug free game. You will not want to be unfamiliar with coding on top of the other difficulties you will find yourself in.
If you really want to use C++ and code something at low level, why not use a library like SFML? http://www.sfml-dev.org/ (cost = free)
If you just want to make 2D games, then I highly recommend Game Develop: http://compilgames.net/ (cost = free)
If you want to make 3D games, then I recommend the UDK:
http://www.unrealengine.com/udk/ (cost = free, except for commercial games. Commercial games is 99$ + 25% of earnings above 10 000$, if my memory is working alright).
However, whatever your goal is, I would make sure that you are very comfortable with programming first. I just started out writing serious games this year and am doing my second commercial one now. There are great difficulties on the path to making a full, playable, fun, fairly bug free game. You will not want to be unfamiliar with coding on top of the other difficulties you will find yourself in.
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Well C++ is free... Why not use that ;)
OpenGL/DirectX is almost a necessity later on. I recommend learning SDL first though, and when you 'master' it (feel good with it), move on.
One tip, never use multidimensional arrays.
OpenGL/DirectX is almost a necessity later on. I recommend learning SDL first though, and when you 'master' it (feel good with it), move on.
One tip, never use multidimensional arrays.
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