Making a game

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Dec 14, 2011 at 1:56am
Where can I find a good tutorial? The one on the website is nowhere near as descriptive as a game making tutorial should be.
Dec 14, 2011 at 2:11am
Haha.

Be a bit more specific. Are you making a graphical one, or are you trying to do make a game in the console window?
Dec 14, 2011 at 2:14am
If you are looking for something with graphics then I suggest you check out SFML:

http://www.sfml-dev.org/

It's a really great library. I love using it. As for the tuts, I found this one on the web(Pong Game):

http://www.gamefromscratch.com/page/Game-From-Scratch-CPP-Edition-Part-1.aspx

Enjoy, and Good Luck!

-Code Assassin
Dec 14, 2011 at 6:33pm
Wanna make a simple cross platform game NOT a console application. All the tutorials I see are console applications.
Dec 15, 2011 at 1:50am
console applications are all i have ever learned. i want to move out
Dec 15, 2011 at 1:51am
btw this is pjquinn
Dec 15, 2011 at 2:11am
Here's a definition of a console application

A console application is a computer program designed to be used via a text-only computer interface...


... I don't think SFML runs in the console window does it?
Dec 15, 2011 at 3:57am
Cross platform? Why not just use Java then? No work needed to make it cross platform, and it has some nice build in GUI libraries. If you don't know, Java is pretty similar to c++, just dumbed down essentially.
Dec 15, 2011 at 5:35am
You are right, SFML does not run in the console, it runs in a window, and based on that alone it will only work on windows computers. But if that is not an issue that i would firs recommend learning how to program in windows.
http://winprog.org/tutorial/start.html
This is a VERY good tutorial about how to make windows
Dec 15, 2011 at 11:52am
you should read some XNA tutorials ...
Dec 15, 2011 at 6:35pm
can i just get some links?
also can someone get me some good game source code
Dec 15, 2011 at 6:51pm
I gave you a link.

What have you decided on using?
(200th Post!)
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Dec 15, 2011 at 7:07pm
Why don't you just Google "C++ game source code" and pick one of the hundreds of links yourself???
Dec 15, 2011 at 7:37pm
How about using OGRE?
supports 3d models/graphics.
http://www.ogre3d.org/
Dec 15, 2011 at 9:33pm
200th post, sweet
Dec 15, 2011 at 9:33pm
Did anyone read my first link? Tooh-tohr-ee-ul. Tutorial
Dec 15, 2011 at 9:44pm
You are obviously a newbie, so giving you some 20,000 lines of source code will only make you want to quit. Learn something like OpenGl, SFML, or something and then ask a specific question, like "how do i rotate this ..." or something. What you want is very broad. Any of the tutorials we provide would require knowing one of these, if you don't know them it is like asking how to write a game in Assembly without actually knowing how to program in assembly. So if you are looking for some copy-paste code then you are out of luck, because games are a whole lot more complex then that. Whereas if you know how to program in a specific graphics language like the ones I just mentioned then we can talk, but your question is to broad for a newbie.
Dec 15, 2011 at 9:48pm
Where can I find a good tutorial? The one on the website is nowhere near as descriptive as a game making tutorial should be.


Okay, here is a tut-ori-al.

It is for SFML.

If you want something specific. Please tell us what you plan on using!

http://www.gamefromscratch.com/page/Game-From-Scratch-CPP-Edition-Part-1.aspx

If you're independent:

http://www.sfml-dev.org/tutorials/1.6/

@NanoBytes

=]
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Dec 15, 2011 at 11:16pm
I am 12 years old. So yes, I am a noob. I just want a link to a good C++ tutorial that will lead to developing games. Thanks for the help CodeAssassin.
Dec 15, 2011 at 11:31pm
@pjquinn

Haha, sweet man. If you need any help, just shoot me up an email:

EDIT: Email Taken Away :L

I'd be glad to help a fellow programmer :]
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