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Shark
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Quote Shark Replybullet Topic: programming
    Posted: 31 October 2005 at 10:08am
i know nothing on how to program, outside of html and css, and i
want to get into game programming. Can anybody suggest what
language is the best for games and where i could find a tutorial to get
me started.

edit: i would like to get into rpg's and side-scrollers.

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Quote Parasight Replybullet Posted: 31 October 2005 at 11:15am
Well, I'd suggest to start out simple. Python is a very powerful and easy to learn programming language. Check out pygame. Pygame is ideal for 2D games like side-scrollers. It's a simple game engine for python. If you don't like python check out ruby. Ruby is newer than python and i like it more. There is more support for python though.

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Quote Helix Replybullet Posted: 01 November 2005 at 1:03pm
Hey dude.

If you want to start small GameMaker is they way to go. You can first start off with the simple drag and drop functions with carry onto it's own language GML. You have to code everything and GameMaker is very flexible in it's games. Many people have made RPG's and Sidescollers, even the mighty sonic clones have been made in GM with less to no errors in the programming.

Although, if you want to go bigger C++and Delphi are the way to go. You can learn them for yourself and take them on into colledge and further maybe into a job. Main stream people earn around £43 grand a year.

GameMaker can be found at www.gamemaker.nl

C++ is going to be hard to find a compiler.

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Quote Parasight Replybullet Posted: 01 November 2005 at 2:01pm
Originally posted by Helix

C++ is going to be hard to find a compiler.

Dev-C++ is free.

http://www.bloodshed.net/
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