Practice games

[eatcomics]

What about a Tower Defence style game? Its top-down like an RTS, but with less complexity.

I love those games, even though I can't stand RTS's.. weird.

Does this have to be a full game? I like making little systems within games. For instance, you can make a battle system, and even start out text-based, and move on from there. You get practice in, and you can even use it in a full game later on.

Hmm I like RTSs but not tower defense lol that is kinda wierd... Tower defense is okay but I get bored with it really easy...

[RyanPridgeon]

I could probably do it but a newb wouldn't know where to begin especially if he was still using the command line... >.>

Well in that case just hone your C++ skills, and make console games until you're confident with programming structure and all that.

Then learn a library like SDL, which lets you draw to the screen and take keyboard input etc

Watch GyroVorbis' video on where to begin;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAgpsks2 ... 98&index=0

[eatcomics]

I could probably do it but a newb wouldn't know where to begin especially if he was still using the command line... >.>

Well in that case just hone your C++ skills, and make console games until you're confident with programming structure and all that.

Then learn a library like SDL, which lets you draw to the screen and take keyboard input etc

Watch GyroVorbis' video on where to begin;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAgpsks2 ... 98&index=0

Precisely what he asked! He was looking for games that could be made in the console! Or at least he was when this was first posted

[XianForce]

Breakout? It's similar to pong, but a step further...