Hello everyone I'm new to GameDev and coding itself, but for a very long time I wanted to start making simple games and learn the whole process.
I was wondering could someone tell the first few things I need to learn/have in order to start making simple 2D games?
Assuming you don't know any language, and would like to learn. Find a good tutorial/book about programming games for beginners, and follow it from start to end.
Programming tutorials can be helpful.
I have a series that you can try:
Beyond that, it's just a matter of passion, practice, and patience.
Shorter black/white answer... go learn Lua. Then learn LOVE. To do it, use ZeroBrane. That is probably the easiest language/library combo available for beginners.
Learning to code games involves at least 2 seperate lines of learning.
1 - Learning a programming language.
2 - Learning how to teach how to play a game.
After learning the first (hard) you may find that teaching the computer the second is Even Harder!!! No seriously, The second is as easy as telling some one to Roll a Pair od Dice, Move a Number of Spaces, Draw a card and follow instructions.
Last year I wrote a simple word game. That code Finished 20 pages of code, without any involved graphics coding/
So where to start ? Go to the local book store, Like a Barnes and Noble and page through Programming Language Books to see if you van follow along.
Also try the on-line stores as well.
If you intend to use Visual C++ you may start with
