Anyone know how I would start about making a game? Any good sites, or programming languages? It'd be a simple game, like the old top down 2d games on the snes.

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http://www.gamedev.net/

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Multimedia fusion is Great.

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stop talking in brail

300 years as jedi master i was, now i bloody night-lite

(:-) Monobrow

Try ROM editing at first or something.

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Something in the style of Flashback shouldn't be too difficult if you know the stuff.

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TRY it, I did an RTS game with it.

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"Computer are useless, all they can give you are answers"/Pablo Piacasso

I think theres a program called dark Basic that is used for making games, other than that, I know nothing about DarkBasic.

its expensive, though.

Are you trying to make your own engine? If aso, wait until Q3 engine goes open source, and then see how its done.



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I have found that you can transform your character solely by the power of belief: as you believe yourself to be, so you shall become over time.

Sphere

Javascript based rpg engine, totally customizable(sp?), open source, difficult to learn, but once you have it, it's really easy.

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if you must...
www.GarageGames.com

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Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Torque is pretty slick, I just bought it a few weeks ago... but it's a bit more complicated than "like the old top down 2d games on the snes."
If you don't have any earlier programming experience, I wouldn't suggest Torque just yet...

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Do you have stairs in your house?

Right, and we all know Q3 is your only chance at seeing how an engine works, especially a 2D one.

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[This message has been edited by SG1_129 (edited August 04, 2004).]

Just buy one of those big books on Visual Basic or Java or C++ game programming for beginners because you'll come out of it knowing a real language.

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A thirty-two bit extension and GUI shell to a sixteen bit patch to an eight bit operating system originally coded for a four bit microprocessor and sold by a two-bit company that can't stand one bit of competition."

Word. Made a FF4 story sequel with Sphere with a college buddy of mine last year.



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If can afford to get Flash MX 2004, you can try learning how to make Flash games.

-- SavageX

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