id like to make something like this except its a game and you can also interact with the things on your desktop
i was also wondering if anyone knows of any programs that can make a game like this
im very new to making games and i suck at everything so thankyou to anyone who can help
On 3/10/2018 at 10:16 PM, cade shea said:id like to make something like this except its a game and you can also interact with the things on your desktop
The question is do you want it as something that is on screen but still allows you to use the computer normally?
Maybe you want a safe environment where the player can play without clicking icons and shortcuts?
The way to do each of these are different so what is it you want to do?
The general approach would be to place a transparent window over the desktop, and render into that.
The second general approach is to grab a window handle of the desktop because it is a window too and draw onto that. In Windows it is simply zero so
//C#
Graphics.FromHwnd(IntPtr.Zero)will give ya the desktop windows graphics object you then could render to.
There is a solution with Unity (free) on PC Windows 7, I didn't test on another system.
I can post a project folder if anyone is interested. Maybe I can explain the process too, because I need someone to try this on a windows 10 system 
But be warned: this is NOT for beginner level (still very fun to play with).
