Hi Shaun,
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tom I think the first question should be what was the first thing you
coded, or the
first part of the game minor or major did you do first, ie the menu, the
interface,
etc.
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Well, if you are starting a game from scratch you can't really jump in
and start programming menus etc. You have to program the more low level
portions of the game such as global variables, classes, objects, etc.
You really can't do anything until you have created the foundation
classes that the program/game runs on. You can't create player's, enemy
monsters, or even menus until you work on the classes that stores all
the information for the game. Let's explain this in
English instead of techno speak.
Most modern languages such as C#, Java, VB 2008, etdc are created using
a programming methodology called object oriented programming. Objecs are
simply people, places, and things that make up your game world. The main
character is an object, your weapons might be objects, all enemies might
be objects, the game world itself might be an object, the Window that
your game plays in is an object, etc. In other words you start with a
simple idea, say a person, and then you set about creating that object
from the ground up. You can't just create a game player character until
you create its class which defines what a character is. Your main
character class might have variables/functions which holds the
character's location, health, direction facing, whatever. Once you have
created the class containing all of the character's essential features
then you can then create a new instance of that character called an
object. The object therefore is the character we want and its class
describes or defines what that character is or can do.
Bottom line, you have to start by defining what things are before you
can actually create them. I know this probably sounds more complicated
than it really is. In fact, object oriented programming is much easier,
less complicated, and more programmer friendly than older procedural
languages. There are lots and lots of reasons why object oriented
programming is all around better, and why object oriented style
programming is much more common today then procedural programming. Main
reason is everything is arranged by class and object type which allows
you to work directly with concepts like a game window, person, place, or
thing rather than a bunch of variables and functions tossed together in
a source file that may or might not be related.
HTH.
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