In that case, you gotta start at the beginning. Pick a language... most of the games produced now are written in C++. There's a truck load of books out there on the subject, make sure you start with the basics. A pretty good book on the subject is SAMS Teach Yourself C++ in 21 Days (3rd edition). It's the one I used.
make sure g++ (gnu c++ compiler) is installed, pick your favourite text editor and go to it... (sounds easy, huh?). Wish it were. The only way to get into it is to think of something stupid to do (ask a user to input his name and then display it back at the user). Kind of boring... but the only way to learn it is to do it. Then there's different graphic APIs out there. SDL is a good one for 2 dimensional graphics. I guess you could call it the DirectX api for linux (pardon the reference to MS). There are other 3D APIs out there, but I've never had the time to tinker with them. You kind of have to get into matrix mathematics... but not to a large degree... though from what I know somekind of understanding of how it works is a good thing. On Tuesday 14 May 2002 16:30, Rob Groszkrueger wrote: > Well haven't done any programming at all so I guess my big wonder is how do > you start programming and all that. Doesn't matter to me too much if it's > games or what. Linux games would work as well as anything > Rob > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bob Steen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 9:21 AM > To: Rob Groszkrueger; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [sclug-general] Linux Game Programming > > On Tuesday 14 May 2002 07:20, you wrote: > > I would like to know a little bit more about programming. Any ideas on > > how this would work? > > What did you want to know? Did you want to know generally about > programming, or did you want to know about linux game programming? > > > Rob > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Bob Steen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 2:53 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [sclug-general] Linux Game Programming > > > > Anyone into Linux Game Programming? > > Anyone interested in Linux Game Programming? > > > > > > > > ===================================================================
