Elysian Shadows

Hi, thanks for reading .
I'm a newbie C++ programmer, and found this forum thanks to holloweye (christer here) and yeah.
The reason why I started programming is because I want to create a gameboy zelda kinda style game.

Ofcourse I know you can't just start with something that hard, and i'm fine with that .
So my idea is, i'll start with the "smallest" kind of game.

Text Game (MUD)
Pong / Tetris / etc (Allegro?)
~ no idea yet ~

So I'm currently doing that text game, it's a MUD.. but single player... (SUD?)
And any ideas (heck even a name idea) would be greatly appriciated :p

More about me, I'm 16 years old (turning 17 saturday) and I'm from the Netherlands.
errr... I love programming already althought im not very good at it :p.

If you would like to know more, just ask!
PS: I hope this is the correct forum.

Yeah, it's the right forum. We even have an entire thread stickied and dedicated to it :) But that's alright. Welcome to the forum! I think you should name it "SSUDAROTE" as in "Super Single-User Dungon AKA a Regular Old Text Adventure"
But of course you're reading suggestions from somebody who has also suggested a subtitle of "!INE" -- as in "Not immature name edition" -- and named his own MUD engine "MrAdventure" =)

But so far, most of my names have flown, so I wouldn't be surprised if you went with "ssudarote": it's even kind of pronounceable :)

Martijn wrote: So I'm currently doing that text game, it's a MUD.. but single player... (SUD?)

So would that be Rouge-like or NetHack-like? Sounds like fun, but you're in for a lot of work.

MarauderIIC wrote:I think you should name it "SSUDAROTE" as in "Super Single-User Dungon AKA a Regular Old Text Adventure"

Wouldn't that be "SSUDAROTA"

thejahooli wrote:

MarauderIIC wrote:I think you should name it "SSUDAROTE" as in "Super Single-User Dungon AKA a Regular Old Text Adventure"

Wouldn't that be "SSUDAROTA"

Even I read right by that one.

Martijn: Hi, and welcome! Glad to see some more people getting into programming. As for ideas I can't really think of any to just toss onto the table, but if you need help feel free to post here. You seem intelligent enough to not be someone who posts something stupid that can be googled in 15 seconds ("What's the difference between a string and an int?").

Martijn wrote:Pong / Tetris / etc (Allegro?)

im not sure if tetris is a good game to start with, its not as easy as it looks. ive never made a clone myself though, what do i know? ;P

PixelP wrote:

Martijn wrote:Pong / Tetris / etc (Allegro?)

im not sure if tetris is a good game to start with, its not as easy as it looks. ive never made a clone myself though, what do i know? ;P

I'd say Tetris is easier to program then it looks IMO. Of course Pong is about as simple as playable games get. You could also try Tic Tac Toe.

Tetris is pretty simple but I wouldn't reccomend it as a first game, it is more effort than it looks.

thejahooli wrote:Tetris is pretty simple but I wouldn't reccomend it as a first game, it is more effort than it looks.

Seconded. Pong is my recommendation.

Innerscope wrote:You could also try Tic Tac Toe.

yeah, i think tic tac toe is the best game to start of with.
i did

Martijn wrote:Hi, thanks for reading .
I'm a newbie C++ programmer, and found this forum thanks to holloweye (christer here) and yeah.
The reason why I started programming is because I want to create a gameboy zelda kinda style game.

Ofcourse I know you can't just start with something that hard, and i'm fine with that .
So my idea is, i'll start with the "smallest" kind of game.

Text Game (MUD)
Pong / Tetris / etc (Allegro?)
~ no idea yet ~

So I'm currently doing that text game, it's a MUD.. but single player... (SUD?)
And any ideas (heck even a name idea) would be greatly appriciated :p

More about me, I'm 16 years old (turning 17 saturday) and I'm from the Netherlands.
errr... I love programming already althought im not very good at it :p.

If you would like to know more, just ask!
PS: I hope this is the correct forum.

Hint: When it comes to GBA programming, it's easier to do graphics than text, because the gameboy sdks usually don't come with calls for text...

Thanks for the welcome all!

@MarauderIIC: Maybe for a city name, okay? .
@rolland: It's still in really really early stages.
@dandymcgee: I'll do my best to google ! .
@PixelP: Oh well, maybe not haven't thought it through yet.
@Innerscope: Tic Tac Toe sounds like a good idea, i'll keep that in mind!
@eatcomics: GBA? as in gameboy advance? xD

Anyway I've created a new topic where I will post random questions when im stuck.
(see the programming forum)

rolland wrote:

Martijn wrote: So I'm currently doing that text game, it's a MUD.. but single player... (SUD?)

So would that be Rouge-like or NetHack-like? Sounds like fun, but you're in for a lot of work.

Sweet cause I'm thinking about doing a multiplayer nethack in blitzplus .... I also want to make a rubics cube solver in c++ but we'll see where they get

I'd recommend TicTacToe as a first game (it was my first), but don't really try to use OO on either TTT or Pong, because it would really overcomplicate either (believe me, because of my many failed attempts at making pong with OO, it ended up taking me a few months before I finally got a working version done; luckily I learned a lot of other things during that time ).

Ginto8 wrote:I'd recommend TicTacToe as a first game (it was my first), but don't really try to use OO on either TTT or Pong, because it would really overcomplicate either (believe me, because of my many failed attempts at making pong with OO, it ended up taking me a few months before I finally got a working version done; luckily I learned a lot of other things during that time ).

That is why his rank is what it is

For the lazy it's "I segfault PONG!"