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programming question

Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2008 4:37 pm
by meltedgears
is c# a good language to program with and wat are some good programs that are free to start off making a game

Re: programming question

Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2008 5:14 pm
by trufun202
C# is great for building business applications, but I wouldn't recommend it for game development. (Unless, of course, you want to write something for the XBox 360 using XNA.)

I recommend watching Falco's How-To series on Game Development:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p ... F8C4CB5498

Re: programming question

Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2008 5:33 pm
by meltedgears
k i want to make it for like the pc and thnks for the help

Re: programming question

Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2008 9:16 pm
by Arce
trufun202 wrote: I recommend watching Falco's How-To series on Game Development:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p ... F8C4CB5498
Oh snap. You did not. XD

meltedgears, I second what he's said. if you're headed towards software engineering, it's excellent. I hear it's like Java, only less gay. I'm lacking much personal experienced with C#, but from what I understand its forced OO design makes it easy to create applications, but inefficient/impractical to create games. Obviously, there are exceptions to both...

Just remember, if you decide to go with C#, try to keep from ending up like these guys. (haha, fuck, I probably shouldn't have...Aw, hell...)

Re: programming question

Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2008 9:25 pm
by trufun202
Arce wrote:if you're headed towards software engineering, [C#]'s excellent. I hear it's like Java, only less gay.
:lol: :lol: :lol: signatured.

Re: programming question

Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2008 10:04 pm
by avansc
trufun202 wrote:
Arce wrote:if you're headed towards software engineering, [C#]'s excellent. I hear it's like Java, only less gay.
:lol: :lol: :lol: signatured.
hahaha, unfortuanatly is like java, and just as gay. well if java is the catcher and C# is the pitcher. but i mean gay is gay.

just dont fuck around and go C/C++

Re: programming question

Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 9:07 am
by trufun202
avansc wrote:hahaha, unfortuanatly is like java, and just as gay. well if java is the catcher and C# is the pitcher. but i mean gay is gay.

just dont fuck around and go C/C++
I use C# at work, and like I said, its great for business applications. The company I work for is "technology agnostic" - so we've got both .NET and Java programmers. I give the Java developers plenty of shit.

Re: programming question

Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 9:33 am
by Arce
I give the Java developers plenty of shit.
XD, couldn't have asked for more.

Re: programming question

Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 11:21 am
by avansc
trufun202 wrote:
avansc wrote:hahaha, unfortuanatly is like java, and just as gay. well if java is the catcher and C# is the pitcher. but i mean gay is gay.

just dont fuck around and go C/C++
I use C# at work, and like I said, its great for business applications. The company I work for is "technology agnostic" - so we've got both .NET and Java programmers. I give the Java developers plenty of shit.
i guess they dont know better. but if you said that to an experienced java developer he would school you.

java and C# is very closely related. the only major thing that java lacks is attributes.
java's swing is far superior to C# SWF. and java is much more mature and stable.
java is more OO than C#, C# is faster, but in business applications its not that critical.

java is a very powerful language when it comes to web based applications, jsp's and all that crud. if i was going
to make an administration system for a business i would use java, apache, tomcat, jsp, SQL. and be done with it.

note, im not pro java, because the work i do efficiency and performance is critical.

Re: programming question

Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 6:26 pm
by meltedgears
hey is c/++ or c# better for a 2d mario remix

Re: programming question

Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 7:47 pm
by avansc
meltedgears wrote:hey is c/++ or c# better for a 2d mario remix
i would say go C++ because there are tons of well developed 2D and 3D engines. but for something as small as that i would also suggest go with what you are most comfortable with.

Re: programming question

Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 8:45 pm
by meltedgears
avansc wrote:
meltedgears wrote:hey is c/++ or c# better for a 2d mario remix
i would say go C++ because there are tons of well developed 2D and 3D engines. but for something as small as that i would also suggest go with what you are most comfortable with.
well i dont have one yet im leaning more to c++

Re: programming question

Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 1:20 am
by trufun202
meltedgears wrote:hey is c/++ or c# better for a 2d mario remix
For that, I'd suggest C++ and Allegro.

Re: programming question

Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 5:28 pm
by XianForce
trufun202 wrote:
meltedgears wrote:hey is c/++ or c# better for a 2d mario remix
For that, I'd suggest C++ and Allegro.

Just a quick little 'related' question...

Can you use OpenGL for 2D graphics? Everytime I hear of a 2D game, everyone says allegro, and with 3D I usually hear OpenGL...

Re: programming question

Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 7:50 pm
by avansc
XianForce wrote:
trufun202 wrote:
meltedgears wrote:hey is c/++ or c# better for a 2d mario remix
For that, I'd suggest C++ and Allegro.

Just a quick little 'related' question...

Can you use OpenGL for 2D graphics? Everytime I hear of a 2D game, everyone says allegro, and with 3D I usually hear OpenGL...
im not sure, but i think allegro is based off of GL maybe SDL, which is the same really.

opengl is an API just like directX

allegro is a graphics engine. so yeah allegro is fine to use.

and to answer your question, yes you can do 2D games with OpenGl