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19martin

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where to start?
« on: November 09, 2009, 04:01:44 PM »
i dont know anything about make a online game i been working on the pictures/art for the game but not sure how to program it or make it for that matter im not even sure where to start can sum1 help me?

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Re: where to start?
« Reply #1 on: November 09, 2009, 05:25:10 PM »
Start by looking at what programming languages you want to learn.

Java, the C languages (C++, C#, C), and Visual Basic are pretty popular. There's a couple people on this forum who are familiar with most of these.

Programming leads to an engine leads to game design leads to a game.

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Re: where to start?
« Reply #2 on: December 18, 2009, 05:21:20 AM »
If you want to try a different approach, I would say pick a game engine that is currently open source, and download it. Start working with it and see how far you can get. When you finally hit a wall of something you cannot do, start working back up from the beginning (e.g. start reading programming books on the subject). This is how I started my introduction to coding prior to taking high-school and university courses on it.
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Re: where to start?
« Reply #3 on: December 20, 2009, 08:22:42 AM »
If you didn't really want to bother with any programming, you could also try a closed source engine, although you would be very restricted in what you could do... It all depends on what you have in mind for game play.