Hey, I'm Casualtie. I joined no longer than 10 minutes ago. I've always been interested in programming/creating my own games, but I never really knew where to start. I search google for an hour before I sign up on this forum and I could not find anywhere a real introduction that tells me where exactly I should start. I am a 100% noob to game progamming and I'd like to know if you guys and girls have any tips or links for a site that will tell me exactly where I need to start. Thanks [Edited by - Casualtie on October 21, 2006 6:16:35 PM]

Well you're going to need to learn how to program first. I'd recommend C++ because it's the industry standard and Visual Studio 2005 EE is free. (that's the program you'll use to type your code into. it will generate the exe file)

You'll probably want to get a book on C++; it's a little tricky.

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And I find the concatenation of colloquialisms in your title very amusing

Haha ya; Concatenation of colloquialisms. That's what I was going for :/

Anyway, thanks for the help, I'll check it out.

EDIT: Oh btw, do you have any links to a good online C++ tutorial. I have no car so I can just run out and get a book.

http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/showfaq.asp?forum_id=31

Ok. I'm having a problem figuring out how to run the progam I've created. When I save it and try to open it, it just opens with Visual C++ 2005 EE.

I'm not really sure what to do. I searched on the help window without any search results and I've looked at some basic tutorials, but they all assume I know how to do that already.

I will write a breif little tutorial here on hello world. I won't explain it, as that is someone else's job. I am just going to make sure you can use your IDE (what you downloaded [stands for Integrated Development Enviroment]).


First, open Visual C++ EE. Go to New->Project. choose win32 console. Type in the name of the project where it says name. Click ok and move onto the next step.


now there should be a window up That is about your project. It should say off to the side "Overview" and "Application settings." Click Application settings. Make sure it is on Console Application. Finally click finish.

Now you have just been introduced to the code. Ignore the code for right now, as I am not teaching you how to code. Now that you have built the code, you must now compile the code. When you get a book on C++, or even read a beginners tutorial on it, it will explain what compiling does. In Visual C++ EE hit F7.

if you did everything right then you should have some text that should look something like this:

------ Build started: Project: tut, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------Compiling...stdafx.cppCompiling...tut.cppCompiling manifest to resources...Linking...Embedding manifest...Build log was saved at "file://c:\Documents and Settings\Chad\My Documents\tut\tut\Debug\BuildLog.htm"tut - 0 error(s), 0 warning(s)========== Build: 1 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========

Ok...so now you have just built your self a program. Press F5 now. A console window should come up and disapear really fast. congrats! Your IDE/Compiler is working! Now start learning C++ and have a blast with it!

If you navigate yourself to the directory where you saved your project, then you will find the .exe. Click on that, and the same thing should happen.


I hope this helped you man! If you need help with anything else, I will be glad to help you! My AIM is scoobydoo082002. So if you have AIM, don't be afraid to add me and ask me questions!

Anyway, hope this helped ya.


Later,
Chad

Ok thanks. So far its worked pretty well the problem is no matter what code I make it always gives me the same error:

"unexpected end of file while looking for precompiled header. Did you forget to add '#include "stdafx.h"' to your source?"

Here is my code:

#include<iostream.h>

main()
{
int num=0;

cout<<"How old are you? "; //outputs the question to the screen
cin>>num; //allows input to the num variable
cout<<"\nSo you're "<<num<<" years old."; //output w/ variable

return 0;

}

Is something wrong with it?