Elysian Shadows

With out a shadow of a doubt Dawn of War II. A lot of RTS games these days seem to be about 'Spam Unit A to counter Unit B' or are far too focused on resource gathering instead of the actual war. Dawn of War II is Warhammer 40k (Big +1), looks amazing for an RTS, does away with base building and mak...

Hey all, I had to post this. As I was looking around youtube at indie games people had made (or are in the middle of making) I stumbled across this video which as a indie game programmer myself, just made me wanna curl up in the corner and cry. This guy who has admitted to barely being able to progr...

Panama wrote: what do u think im doing and do u think rpg maker is a pice of crap lol? man rpg maker xp make you make so powerfull cool games and if u dont bellive that then see this link this is a video well make you see how much rpg maker is good http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Mx2peyPkzY and tha...

what do u think im doing and do u think rpg maker is a pice of crap lol? man rpg maker xp make you make so powerfull cool games and if u dont bellive that then see this link this is a video well make you see how much rpg maker is good http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Mx2peyPkzY and that is what i ne...

Very very nice! 5 stars. The boss is really wierd though Reminds me of Andross from Starfox.

You make a good point actually Gyro, when I first started programming (a little over 3 years ago) most error messages completely stumped me, and it didn't help that sometimes they weren't written in plain english. When I get a compile time error now, if I don't understand it (but I usually do) I go ...

Im sure we've all been there at some point, you're programming away on your latest project, you compile it and get 1 or more error messages. You don't know how to fix the problem and are getting increasingly frustrated with trying out possible solutions only to find they don't work, then ofcourse if...

Ive used XNA and C# in the past to make little games. C# is definately nicer to use than C++ for the reasons you've listed above but I never really felt right when I was using XNA, there's something about DirectX which i just prefer.

Starcraft 1, i looked forward to that game for so long and then when i got it, it was just 'spam your most powerful unit' like alot of other RTS games. The characters and story was bland and the races were barely original, I still have it but never play it. I just hope Starcraft 2 is much better *cr...

Hmmm, then im not sure what to suggest mate, ive never used SDL but im sure someone will be along soon who can fix your problem.

EDIT: Cant you use

Command and Conquer 3 *shivers*

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Hey mate, a really useful book i recently purchased is C++ for Game Programmers - second ed. It doesn't show you how to code any games but is really useful for showing you efficient game dev techniques and has given me lots of ideas for things like class structuring and design patterns. There's also...

Wow, that was pretty nasty.

Wow, it's really interesting reading about how you all got into programming. Ok my turn :) So about 3 years ago, I had just got my first computer and was in the habit of spending all my time (and i emphasise the 'all') playing PC games. At the time my favourite game was an RTS called Dawn of War. I ...