Elysian Shadows

hey yah im a noob in eigth grade and im trying to start making videogames and learning programming but my crappy highschool has
no programming classes what do you guys suggest i do till i can take that summer game making class?

Buy some C or C++ books. Read. Learn.

You can start in the "General tutorials" section -- specifically, the about.com C++ stuff -- in the "Guides & Resources" sticky in this forum. Decent place to start, anyways. (http://thechaosrift.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=148 )

thanx yeah im gonna buy sams teach yourself c++ in 24 hours or whatever i was gonna get it on ebay then i decided to check the boookstore in stead but they didnt have anything so i guess ill just go back to ebay

Books a Million likely will have it, and I believe they have the ability to order books for you if they don't.

However, it's probably over 50$ there. Just a warning. =P

oh i have my sources amazon st. louis book stores oh yah i have connections

No need for buying anything. Everything i've learned is from the net itself. You'll find plenty of valueable tutorials on search engines like Google. Even if you're looking to go advanced, still.

Well I tried that but seeing as how I am using my parents pc at the moment,and my stepdad is going to college, i don't have as much time on here as i need for that.
Now books on the other hand i have 24 hour acess to. After reading I can spend my time, practising my coding and not researching it

Hey, I'm going to learn C++ as well and start making games. And to the eighth grader (sorry I forgot your username) I have heard of Flora. OMG, so funny. I live like a half hour away, I'm a freshman. I can't believe you actually live near here, so wierd

guyofcomics wrote:Hey, I'm going to learn C++ as well and start making games. And to the eighth grader (sorry I forgot your username) I have heard of Flora. OMG, so funny. I live like a half hour away, I'm a freshman. I can't believe you actually live near here, so wierd

Lol .. dont hijack his thread please.

sum of yall actin like its gonna take yall a few months to make a game when its unrealistic

ansatsusha_gouki wrote:sum of yall actin like its gonna take yall a few months to make a game when its unrealistic

Well, telling by your intelligent vocabluary I can assume you've made a game yourself.

WinterChill wrote:

ansatsusha_gouki wrote:sum of yall actin like its gonna take yall a few months to make a game when its unrealistic

Well, telling by your intelligent vocabluary I can assume you've made a game yourself.

i just completed my first game and planning my second one now....i dont have no problem someone wanting to learn c++ my problem is when someone says they wanna do game programming and think they will make a game right off the bat...its takes very hard work to understand a programming language.....you gotta read alot of books, read forums, and research on the internet to understand what programming is about...i see alot of new programmers on youtube and forums saying they wanna do programming and dont understand its really hard work...ive been programming for 2 yrs now and i still havent grasp pointers and arrays but anyways i wasnt dissing the guy cuz im glad he want to do some game programming or etc but dont expect to make a game within a few months either.

It's possible for him to make a game in a few months. It might lag, it might suck, it might not work at all, but it's possible. Then again, who am I to talk? :guffaw:

It's possible to make a game in a day.

Depends on the game, the language, what you put into it, how hard you work, how fast you can go, what type of game, etc.

You guys heard of The Game challenge where you create a collection of experimental gameplay games, and cannot spend more than X hours on each game (I think like 48 hours or something...)? I'm sure there was a topic about it somewhere here...