Re: im a beginner

[Ben Crowder <crowderb@netbrick.com>]

I don't want to dampen your enthusiasm or anything, but you'd probably be
better off starting with a less ambitious project.  I would highly suggest
doing something simple (ala Pacman or Asteroids or Space Invader) first.  
It's generally a good idea to begin with 2D, since that's easier, and then
move to 3D after you have some experience.  There's more to a game like
Virtual Fighter than you'd imagine, believe me.  Without the necessary
insights you'd learn from doing a smaller project, you'll probably get
stuck 10% into your 3D project and have no idea where to go.  Smaller
projects teach you about the basic game loop, drawing graphics to the
screen, and project management, all of which are critical in a larger game
(especially the last).  If, however, you're dead set on starting with a
Virtual Fighter clone, by all means go ahead.  Nobody's stopping you. :)

-- 
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http://www.netbrick.com/crowder/slate/      work worth doing." -- Theodore Roosevelt

On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, white fire wrote:

> Hi my name is Cliff, i am currently a beginner in c and c++ but i am
> at college studing it and i would like to start games programming
> using c and c++ with opengl and mesa. The game i would like to start
> programming is a virtual fighter clone on the linux platform, i have
> read several aticles on opengl and mesa to understand a little of what
> im dealing with and have sams teach yourself c in 21 days for linux
> and have GNU c++ for linux written by Tom Swan to use as a refence
> kind of while im trying to tackle opengl at the same time, i know how
> to program in visual basic and html cause i learnt that last term only
> basics though and this term i am starting c for 5 weeks then go into
> c++ i already know how to use variables, constants, 1d arrays, loops
> and if statements etc in visual basic and now i know most of them in
> c. So i was wondering if u might give me, like an example of how i
> would go about such a game.
> 
> PS i am i know quite how to use linux quite well.
> 
> thanks a lot guys
> Cliff 
> 
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