Re: [Audyssey] best language for a first game atempt

2011-06-27 Thread shaun everiss
Hi dave. There are several languages. most start with autoit but thats crappy. If you want to stay with a script based language that is free try python. Obviously I don't know about the libs etc but python has made nvda so its stable. If you wan to not worry about stuff, bgt is a good idea. Yo

Re: [Audyssey] best language for a first game atempt

2011-06-27 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Willem wrote: The downside to using proprietary microsoft languages are that you are at the mercy of microsoft in terms of support. A good example is vb6 which they decided not to continue supporting. My reply: Yes, that's true to a point. Although, to be fair Microsoft's C# .Net language i

Re: [Audyssey] best language for a first game atempt

2011-06-27 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dave, Well, a lot depends on what you want to do. The BGT toolkit, written by Philip Bennifall, would certainly fulfill all of your requirements as it is a fairly complete game engine and you can produce free games using the Shareware license version which costs $29 as I recall. Of course, if c

Re: [Audyssey] best language for a first game atempt

2011-06-27 Thread Damien C. Pendleton
rom my own experiences. Email me off list and I'll do my best to help. Regards, Damien. - Original Message - From: "Philip Bennefall" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Monday, June 27, 2011 5:22 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] best language for a first game atempt

Re: [Audyssey] best language for a first game atempt

2011-06-27 Thread Philip Bennefall
- Original Message - From: "David Mehler" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Monday, June 27, 2011 4:58 PM Subject: [Audyssey] best language for a first game atempt Hello Everyone, I've got a game idea that I'd like to run with. I'm not sure if i'm going

Re: [Audyssey] best language for a first game atempt

2011-06-27 Thread Willem
Hi. Everything depends on what style of language you are cumfortable with. Javascript and php are c-style languages, so you might check out java or even c#. The downside to it is that sapi is hard to use as things stand. I would not recommend a language like c or c++ for someone just starting

[Audyssey] best language for a first game atempt

2011-06-27 Thread David Mehler
Hello Everyone, I've got a game idea that I'd like to run with. I'm not sure if i'm going to make it freeware or pay that depends on how it all turns out. I'd like to know a good language to start with? I'm also interested in any game specific tutorials or howtos something to get started with. A