Gaming programming topic

[EFileTahi-A]

Well, how many good c# gaming programming do we know? gamasutra? *sigh*

How about having a specific topic related to gaming code ONLY. With good "getting started" tutorials / examples, basic concepts (like creating a scrolling 2D maps, teaching basic formulas to create a circle colisions etc...), tricks, hints...

I miss the times I use to code in my old ZX-Spectrum (with 14 years old), I use to program games because ZX-spectrum magazines where an invitaion to code, and there was no internet by that time. Now? We have Internet, so many many sites, Programming is everywhere, dozens of computers books at our local stores but, nothing, nothing realy usefull for a person who wants to start coding games in C# (or any other languages).

Well, we have c-sharpcorner which is very cool (considering the other choices) but if "Xtreme .net talk" started to bet on this too, we (game coding dreamers) would have another option to choose from.

I know that this is no possbile since it would be needed professional game coders to achieve this, but I do believe that there is many people here at this forum with experience enough to getting started the "newbies" with the basics of game coding on / GDI+ / directX (specialy DirectX, How many good NEWBIE directx tutorials are out there?). Althought this would a beautifull thing, Am also aware that it might be ppl willing to do this but they just lack on time...

At least we could harvest the web and store here (at a game topic) all gaming related material...

Conclusion: I would like to have an Gaming oriented topic at this great .NET forum

 

[Himo]

You can post any game issue in the .net General forum and for tutorials on GDI+/DirectX and stuff I always go by www.gamedev.net.
There was a discussion about this but there was too little interest to warrant a gaming forum. Thats right mods? mods?

BTW: My minesweeper game is hanging around in the random thought forum and my "Creating a pinball game"-thread is in the .Net General forum.

 

[EFileTahi-A]

Mmmm, nice site gamede.com, I will look at it this weekend

tks for posting out m8

 

[wyrd]

Theres only one place you need to go if youre interested in game programming: www.gamedev.net

The site is entirely based on game programming, regardless of language. In fact, a large portion of the programmers on there use C# (that wasnt always true in the past, but times have changed). However, that doesnt matter, because most problems related to game programming are the same regardless of which language youre using. The .NET framework wont help you solve that AI problem, but implementing a solid finite state machine will. The code will be near identical regardless if its C# or C++.

 

[EFileTahi-A]

Ok, I will keep that in mind

 

[ThePentiumGuy]

This has already been discussed here.

Gamedev.net is a great source. You can check out my site (See Signature) for the "Newbie" directX (and GDI+... basically game programming) tutorials.

Other sites to consider are PlausiblyDamps site (Just google it. Its a great site, althoguh no one knows about it), gamasutra, and gamedev of course.

-TPG