Elysian Shadows

This is so true. I'm sick of seeing "how many languages do you know", "X vs Y language", or my favorite "which programming language should I learn?". Most of the time, it ends in a flamewar between languages. I do have to disagree with some points here though. I do not ...

hey douchebag, i was obviously just making fun of the crayons and so on, not being to serious there... ive actually seen Mr sweeney drive around in his lambo, i live 10 min from epic games. My apologies for misunderstanding. But really, there is no need for name calling. ONLY 10 programmers worked ...

I want it. Could you post the link? Haskell is a cool language, but I don't know if I'd want to use it for game programming. Games have a need to keep state, and in my experience Haskell isn't really the best choice for that kind of thing. Although if it's to use Haskell's concurrency features, lik...

I want it. Could you post the link? Haskell is a cool language, but I don't know if I'd want to use it for game programming. Games have a need to keep state, and in my experience Haskell isn't really the best choice for that kind of thing. Although if it's to use Haskell's concurrency features, lik...

Interesting conversation. I've never come across such a question before... If you are to ask this sort of question, then I think we can actually broaden it to, "What's the point of life?". Then it just becomes a big mess :) I see programming just like I see any other field of science, whet...

That's an interesting post dandymcgee. Technically if a programming language is turing complete, then it can everything that any other turing complete language can. When you say scripting language, I assume you mean a programming language that is interpreted.. rather than compiled, in which case the...

You did not just call Python simple ;) Just because C++ is harder than Python, doesn't make it a better language. Python is simply of a higher abstraction. Usually when you go up in abstraction, you sacrifice efficiency for expressiveness. Python is simple and powerful, do not confuse power with eff...

What you want to do is learn how to program. This can be achieved MUCH more easily, IMO, with a language like Python or Ruby(which is my personal favorite right now). Please stay away from Perl (for your first language) and pick up something that is nice to you and something that will be fun to prog...

+1 for Python. I am making games with it right now, as well as developing apps and utilities for my desktop, and just starting to make web apps with Django, which I think it is going to be a very popular framework in the near future. Plus Python is included in almost all Linux Distros. I mean, unles...

dandymcgee wrote:I've never actually done this before, but I believe "serialization" would be the keyword you're looking for.
I'm sure someone more experienced can give you a bit more information about how to go about implementing such a thing.

Awesome! Thanks, time to visit my good friend Google :D

How would you go about implementing a save feature in a game? I was thinking about this the other day and can't find anything about it on Google. I was thinking something like writing keywords to a file depending on the state of the game, then the game would check the words and restore the previous ...

If you see yourself doing something like: #include <windows> or #include <unistd> punch yourself in the face, and you'll be fine. :D Haha, I'll keep that in mind. Btw, I'm just curious. But which programming languages did you know before you learned C++? And when did you start learning it? People i...

Just had a quick question, I couldn't seem to find the answer searching the forums. I want to make games for Linux, and contribute to expanding the Linux gaming scene, but I would also like for my games to be able to run on Windows as well. Let's say I am using C++ with Python and use SDL and openGL...

Thanks for all the advice!

I dropped the books and went to look at some advanced tutorials and API's and I am learning A LOT!

And Pygame is great, I went from knowing nothing to drawing and moving stuff on the screen in about a day, but I still have a lot to learn.

Thanks again.

Hey guys, I'm having a bit of a problem. I feel like I know enough programming and I find myself skimming through beginners books, but I have a hard time creating anything useful and do not know enough to understand advanced books. I'm learning Python and know programming basics, but I can't really ...