jeff wrote: > Jason Stechschulte wrote: > >> I know there are a lot of programmers on this list, so I'm hoping >> someone might be kind enough to help me. I already am a so so >> programmer. I'm comfortable using Perl and PHP and I have a little >> experience in C/C++. >> I'm now thinking of taking the next step and starting a real programming >> project. I'm thinking of writing a game. My question is this: Does >> anyone know of a book that doesn't teach you a language, rather it >> teaches you how to do an entire project. I'm more interested in >> something that says by going through this book you will create this. >> Then the book focuses on that one task from planning to final >> implementation. >> I know there are some books that do something like this but they just >> give you source code and then talk about the code. I'm hoping to find >> something the other way around. The author(s) discuss(es) the concepts >> before giving the code that way you have a chance to try to create the >> code yourself without looking ahead. >> I'm already looking at and altering the sources for nethack to get a >> handle on how they do things. I'm also reading OpenGL Programming Guide >> to learn graphics even though the game I want to write will be 2D. So >> does anyone know of a book such as I'm hoping to find? C/C++ is >> preferable, but other languages will be considered too since I don't >> find learning new languages very difficult. >> >> > > just stick to the motto i see on your website: flash is not what will > make your game poplular. period. the game industry needs an enema so > bad... well... that's another story. > > i'm no programmer... just an older dude with good ideas and some > storyboard/character development experience behind me. would be cool to > have a debian gamers group or something like that. fun stuff exclusively > written for my favorite distro. > > well, it's all pipedreams until we start emailing each other. so, like, > get something started already! :-D > > -jeff > > > Yeah I would like to see a Debian Gamers Group. It could have its own mailing list. I am still new to the Linux world (used Win98 as my main system until I finally got set on making KDE/OpenGL/SB sound work together), but I would love to be part of a group of programmers/developers of games. I have some experience but it is mostly hobby stuff. I made a Pacman clone in QBasic in 1998, and had a few games on the Apple II c+. Again, nothing major, but making games in Linux is something I would like to do. So here I go, starting the emailing. B-) Gianfranco
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