Hey guys, I am learning C++... Would it be hard to make a game like tic-tak-toe? Or board games? It wouldn''t Im guessing... Should I learn direct x? (8) Or OpenGL? Which is easiest to understand? And easiest to remember the code...? I am working on a productions/entertainment team... And thought, maby I should try an make a quick easy game...! Any help here? Ok, thanks, bye!

You can do tic-tac-toe using conio.h, which lets you call gotoxy to position the text output cursor, and output some extended ascii. Look at characters 179, 196, & 197

heh, if you decide not to go for the text mode, which is easy, I would suggest OpenGL, simply because you can just "do" OpenGL(after a very small initalization), where as Direct3D / DirectDraw takes a lot longer to initalize & de-initalize. Its much easier to begin in OpenGL.

Which is easier to understand? its a toss-up AND they are both equally difficult to master.

My real suggestion, is spend some time finding out what exactly your production/entertainment team is using, and use that. Its worth your time to do the research, because it will be pointless to become "barely-fluent" in OpenGL, and then move to Direct3D, or vice versa.

Oh yeah, and DirectX is a entire library of Code, Music, Networking, Input, etc, while OpenGL is JUST graphics...

quote:Original post by JonStelly
If you''re still learning C/C++ I wouldn''t even touch games beyond simple text input, guess a number, output number kinds of things. DirectX and OpenGL are going to do nothing but frustrate you unless you''ve got a solid foundation of knowledge to build on.

Your right in a sense, I won''t understand OpenGL or DX... I was looking at NeHe OpenGL Tutorials, and I couldn''t see anything in it, just a bunch of code... An so, I''ll just try an understand C++ before anything else ...! Hmm, okay... Thanks, bye...