Re: [Audyssey] how to be an audio game programmer.

2014-09-15 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Phil, Cool. The SlimDX book sounds especially good. Although, I am no longer using C# .NET for game development its good to know there is finally a book out there on SlimDX, because back in 2009 when I converted my code from C# to C++ there was nothing on SlimDX and reading the API documentatio

Re: [Audyssey] how to be an audio game programmer.

2014-09-14 Thread Kaveinthran Pulanthran
thanks sir On 9/15/14, Phil Vlasak wrote: > Hi Thomas, > I searched BookShare for the terms XInput, XAudio2, game programming and got > > three hits, > Game Development with SlimDX > by Michael Fontanini > An easy to follow guide on SlimDX game development with practical exercises > > in each cha

Re: [Audyssey] how to be an audio game programmer.

2014-09-14 Thread Phil Vlasak
Hi Thomas, I searched BookShare for the terms XInput, XAudio2, game programming and got three hits, Game Development with SlimDX by Michael Fontanini An easy to follow guide on SlimDX game development with practical exercises in each chapter. Step by step instructions and example code put each

Re: [Audyssey] how to be an audio game programmer.

2014-09-14 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Well, yes and no. A lot depends on what programming language you intend to use. I know of several older books on game programming that were pretty good books for the time they were written, but I'd have to first know in advance what language you were intending to program in. It Wouldn't work f

Re: [Audyssey] how to be an audio game programmer.

2014-09-14 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Ishan, Under the circumstances that might be a good idea. As I told Shaun a lot of developers have done it without issue, but if you want to be sure the community will accept your voice a simple recording of you introducing yourself should do it. That would at least save you time and effort doi

Re: [Audyssey] how to be an audio game programmer.

2014-09-14 Thread Kaveinthran Pulanthran
do you have some title to suggest, where it's related to game programming? and, do you have any suggestion for me to read about sound inscription? On 9/14/14, ishan dhami wrote: > Hi thomas sir > agreed with you. > I think I should make an experiment and if someone don't like my voice > I use ano

Re: [Audyssey] how to be an audio game programmer.

2014-09-14 Thread ishan dhami
Hi thomas sir agreed with you. I think I should make an experiment and if someone don't like my voice I use another human voice. Thanks Ishan On 9/14/14, Kaveinthran Pulanthran wrote: > hi sir, > > have some questions. hope it will be clarified. > 1. do mainstream game programming books have what

Re: [Audyssey] how to be an audio game programmer.

2014-09-14 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, When it comes to mainstream game programming books we can use quite a bit of the book's content such as audio, input, artificial intelligence, networking, etc. Just because it was written with mainstream programmers in mind does not mean it is totally a waste of time. It just depends on the bo

Re: [Audyssey] how to be an audio game programmer.

2014-09-14 Thread Kaveinthran Pulanthran
hi sir, have some questions. hope it will be clarified. 1. do mainstream game programming books have what we one? cause as far as I know, it's tailotred for the visual games. sorry If I am wrong. 2. Just curious, how some of our game programmers, encrupt their souns? thanks On 9/14/14, Thomas War

Re: [Audyssey] how to be an audio game programmer.

2014-09-14 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Shaun, That's really unfair. Neither of us knows what Ishan's voice sounds like so there is no reason to start making assumptions on what his voice does or does not sound like. This is one of those situations where we will cross that bridge when we come to it. In other words, if and when Ishan

Re: [Audyssey] how to be an audio game programmer.

2014-09-14 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Ishan, Sounds good. C++ is by far my favorite programming language. Its a little more difficult to learn than say Python etc, but I think you'd be better off by far for learning it. Most game programming documentation is geared for C++ programmers as is most of the game programming APIs and lib

Re: [Audyssey] how to be an audio game programmer.

2014-09-14 Thread ishan dhami
...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of shaun > everiss > Sent: Friday, September 12, 2014 3:57 PM > To: Gamers Discussion list > Subject: Re: [Audyssey] how to be an audio game programmer. > > ishen, to be honest, thats ok, except that not everyone will want your > voice. > no one eve

Re: [Audyssey] how to be an audio game programmer.

2014-09-14 Thread shaun everiss
well thats true tom but back then we didn't have much coice now we have a choice of what voices we want. fact is and its probably biased, since his english is not his first language I am getting semi visions of a stuttery voice that sounds quite bad but that may just be bad vibes I guess. At 1

Re: [Audyssey] how to be an audio game programmer.

2014-09-14 Thread ishan dhami
Hello sir thanks for helping Last night I read some tutorials of c++ and I will discuss with you whenever I have some doubts. the tutorials of c++ are very good and I think it can teach me at least of the basics of c++ Thanks Ishan On 9/13/14, Thomas Ward wrote: > Hi Ishan, > > No problem. The wa

Re: [Audyssey] how to be an audio game programmer.

2014-09-13 Thread hayden presley
om: Gamers [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of shaun everiss Sent: Friday, September 12, 2014 3:57 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] how to be an audio game programmer. ishen, to be honest, thats ok, except that not everyone will want your voice. no one even will know

Re: [Audyssey] how to be an audio game programmer.

2014-09-12 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Ishan, No problem. The way you worded your prior post about programming in English instead of programming in Hindi sounded like you were a bit confused there. I apologize for any misunderstanding, but just wanted to be sure you understood the difference. Cheers! On 9/12/14, ishan dhami wrot

Re: [Audyssey] how to be an audio game programmer.

2014-09-12 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Shaun, I disagree with you. Its not arrogant for Ishan to use his own voice or to offer only one voice to choose from. Liam, Philip Bennefall, David greenwood, James North, etc all have done it so its his choice to make. If he leaves the wav files open and unencrypted I suppose its possible to

Re: [Audyssey] how to be an audio game programmer.

2014-09-12 Thread shaun everiss
well you could have someone write the docs and an english translation for you if you can find people to do that. At 09:38 p.m. 12/09/2014, you wrote: Hi thomas ward sir and all. My plans are very clear about the language. If I programme a game in Hindi and then translate in english it will be f

Re: [Audyssey] how to be an audio game programmer.

2014-09-12 Thread shaun everiss
ishen, to be honest, thats ok, except that not everyone will want your voice. no one even will know what your voice sounds like, its a bit arogent in giving people only 1 choice of voice, I'd post a sample of your voice first and ask if its ok first. At 12:07 a.m. 12/09/2014, you wrote: Hi th

Re: [Audyssey] how to be an audio game programmer.

2014-09-12 Thread ishan dhami
sir I am not confused the thing you said that you are not happy the japanese games because first they are not understandable and if someone translate them in english they pronounced so unclear. so my plans to write my games in english I know the difference between programming languages and speaking

Re: [Audyssey] how to be an audio game programmer.

2014-09-12 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Hayden, While I do take your point it simply isn't necessary for a developer to translate a game into hundreds of different languages to be nearly universally understood by a large number of people. As you know there are some languages, English among them, that is spoken by a lot of people arou

Re: [Audyssey] how to be an audio game programmer.

2014-09-12 Thread tim
scussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] how to be an audio game programmer. It is up to the author, not the gamer, to make a game or a document understandable. --- Be positive! When it comes to being defeated, if you think you're finished, you! really! are! finished! - Original Message - Fr

Re: [Audyssey] how to be an audio game programmer.

2014-09-12 Thread hayden presley
n -Original Message- From: Gamers [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Charles Rivard Sent: Friday, September 12, 2014 8:35 AM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] how to be an audio game programmer. It is up to the author, not the gamer, to make a game or a documen

Re: [Audyssey] how to be an audio game programmer.

2014-09-12 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Ishan, Makes sense, but I feel it necessary to make a clarification here. When you program the software is written in a programming language like C, C++, Python, Java, etc and that is not the same thing as the language you speak with. Although, since most programming languages have been created

Re: [Audyssey] how to be an audio game programmer.

2014-09-12 Thread Charles Rivard
list" Sent: Friday, September 12, 2014 4:05 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] how to be an audio game programmer. Hi Jody, No, its not impossible. However, for a semi-pro or pro job I think that any game that is developed in English for a largely English speaking group of gamers should attempt to get

Re: [Audyssey] how to be an audio game programmer.

2014-09-12 Thread shaun everiss
Thanks tom the easiest outputwould be sapi speech or wav speech previding you can record the files. screenreader output can be done to reasonably easily. However as I said burnout is never good and trying to do more than you can eat is bad. one of the dvs in reality gaming found out the hardwa

Re: [Audyssey] how to be an audio game programmer.

2014-09-12 Thread ishan dhami
Hi thomas ward sir and all. My plans are very clear about the language. If I programme a game in Hindi and then translate in english it will be fatiguing for me and be more expensive. so I'll programme my games in english. with indian touch of music. in english when I try to speak then I should be

Re: [Audyssey] how to be an audio game programmer.

2014-09-12 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Ishan, I just posted a message a few minutes ago to the list with a few free online resources for computer programming so that's already taken care of. I don't know how useful it will be because I'm of the opinion paid services are better, but its worth a try. It would help if I knew what langu

Re: [Audyssey] how to be an audio game programmer.

2014-09-12 Thread ishan dhami
I will try my best I am a learner and young guy. who tries to learn from you. anyway please tell me about some online training programmes which are based on computer programming. Lisa mam if you don't mind that it is grammar not gramar thanks for the compliment I'm expecting very much from thomas w

Re: [Audyssey] how to be an audio game programmer.

2014-09-12 Thread ishan dhami
well it is your opinion. Thanks but now we are disconnecting If someone knows the online training lessons for computer programming please tell me I am waiting and I will wait when someone tell me then I start. as far as concern of my english this story is very disappointing for me I will share you

Re: [Audyssey] how to be an audio game programmer.

2014-09-12 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Ishan and all, Well, if you can afford it there is a great programming resource called Safari Books http:///safari.oreilly.com that has hundreds of books on C, C++, Java, Python, and various other programming languages. They also have game programming books as well, but the service costs about

Re: [Audyssey] how to be an audio game programmer.

2014-09-12 Thread ishan dhami
Hi thomas sir and all. I like my voice and I want to programme a game in my voice. because human voice is more clear than a sinthetic voice. I want to creat virtual 3d environment but first I'll start 2d. I have no plans for creating multiplayer games. in future if it will be possible then I will t

Re: [Audyssey] how to be an audio game programmer.

2014-09-12 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Jody, No, its not impossible. However, for a semi-pro or pro job I think that any game that is developed in English for a largely English speaking group of gamers should attempt to get the spelling and grammar as correct as possible. The easier it is to read/listen to the more enjoyable it will

Re: [Audyssey] how to be an audio game programmer.

2014-09-11 Thread Devin Prater
Well, I'd seriously love more network-capable games. On 9/11/2014 5:29 AM, Thomas Ward wrote: Hi Ishan, That's a start, but I think we need a little more information than that. There are a number of technologies that may be used in games and it would be helpful to be thinking about these things

Re: [Audyssey] how to be an audio game programmer.

2014-09-11 Thread Jody McKinniss
While it would be much easier in well-constructed English, I must admit that it is possible. Right now I am starting stage 6 of BK3, and none of that game has been translated at all. And let's be honest, the NVDA translations are abysmal in most cases, and in many instances make no sense at all,

Re: [Audyssey] how to be an audio game programmer.

2014-09-11 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Lisa, That's for sure. If Ishan intends to create games for the VI community, many of whom speak English, he is going to have to make some improvements to his own English language skills. Otherwise people may have a tough time understanding what the game is trying to communicate to them. Chee

Re: [Audyssey] how to be an audio game programmer.

2014-09-11 Thread Josh
I don't know programming but I can look at code and get a good idea of what it is doing. and I would say start out with bgt. it'll let you make games quickly, scripting-wise, free, paid, and so on, for windows. signature not available. ishan dhami wrote: I am a young man and I have very intre

Re: [Audyssey] how to be an audio game programmer.

2014-09-11 Thread Lisa Hayes
bject: Re: [Audyssey] how to be an audio game programmer. Hi Ishan, That's a start, but I think we need a little more information than that. There are a number of technologies that may be used in games and it would be helpful to be thinking about these things in advance. 1. What type of spe

Re: [Audyssey] how to be an audio game programmer.

2014-09-11 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Ishan, That's a start, but I think we need a little more information than that. There are a number of technologies that may be used in games and it would be helpful to be thinking about these things in advance. 1. What type of speech output do you plan to use. Are you going to rely on text to

Re: [Audyssey] how to be an audio game programmer.

2014-09-11 Thread ishan dhami
I am a young man and I have very intresting concepts first I will start with free games for windows then I will develop my own site like every developer and sell my best audio games. I will work every type of games like FPS and side scroller and horrer adventure games. I agreed with you MR josh but

Re: [Audyssey] how to be an audio game programmer.

2014-09-10 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Josh, The BGT toolkit isn't the only option. Let's give Ishan more options than BGT. I have the greatest respect for BGT, but would like to remind people it isn't the one and only choice out there. Cheers! On 9/10/14, Josh wrote: > get the free bgt blind game maker toolkit. its free from bl

Re: [Audyssey] how to be an audio game programmer.

2014-09-10 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Ishan, Well, at the time being there isn't any specific site available that will teach a newbie such as yourself how to program an audio game. Although, there are plenty of general purpose programming sites available for C++, Python, and various other languages if you want to begin with one of

Re: [Audyssey] how to be an audio game programmer.

2014-09-10 Thread Josh
get the free bgt blind game maker toolkit. its free from blastbay studios. signature not available. ishan dhami wrote: Hi all I have lots of dreams and concept and I want to fulfil them. I want to learn audio game programming But where? which site should I choose and is this is possible? Thanks

[Audyssey] how to be an audio game programmer.

2014-09-10 Thread ishan dhami
Hi all I have lots of dreams and concept and I want to fulfil them. I want to learn audio game programming But where? which site should I choose and is this is possible? Thanks Ishan --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@aud