New Game: Tile Sliderz

by **TechMage** » Mar 1, 2003 @ 11:56am

Yeah leave him alone. At least he isn't like some of those lame people on Handango that flood the games catagory with PPC 2002 themes, that took them like 10 mins to make and they want 3 to 5 bucks for them. Now that is annoying. Atleast this is an actual program.

by **damian** » Mar 1, 2003 @ 2:27pm

Yeah... if you want to get serious at all in programming, you should learn C++ (although you're supposed to start out by learning C). C++ isn't extrememly hard in itself, though... it's just that the Win32 API and GAPI are hard. Try PocketFrog, though. It's extremely easy, and takes care of all the API for you.

by **Dihnekis** » Mar 1, 2003 @ 3:10pm

PocketFrog is a program that teaches you how to program? If it isn't where do i learn? Is there a website somewhere that will teach me? Is coding for PPC that much different from coding for PC?

by **damian** » Mar 1, 2003 @ 3:17pm

No, PocketFrog is a library that allows you to make easy PPC programs using C++. Look at the PocketFrog forum here in pm, and you'll find out.

To actually learn C, I reccommend Practical C Programming, the famous "cow" book. I'm not too sure about C++; I just learned using the online Wrox Press tutorial that came with VC++ 6, but then I probably don't know anything about C++...

But yeah, I reccommend that you get a book. Books are MUCH better than online tutorials. Also, if you're in school, then you might want to take a C/C++ class if your school offers one. I took one, and it helped me understand some things a bit better. If you want to use a tutorial, though, just Google arround for "C++ tutorial". Just don't rely only on that.

And yes, PPC programming is generally similar to PC programming. Both are in C++ (obviously) and both use the Win32 API, with only slight differences, which generally means programs are easily portable. However, for making games, direct screen access is generally needed, and that's where things differ. PPC games use GAPI and PC games use DirectX (generally, of course) and so there will be some difference. Simple programs should be the same though.

by **jongjungbu** » Mar 1, 2003 @ 5:28pm

by **Matt Gifford** » Mar 2, 2003 @ 12:05am

by **Dihnekis** » Mar 2, 2003 @ 4:01am

by **Matt Gifford** » Mar 2, 2003 @ 9:26am

by **damian** » Mar 2, 2003 @ 3:22pm

what?

by **Dihnekis** » Mar 2, 2003 @ 7:48pm

by **Bradskey** » Mar 3, 2003 @ 1:57am

Themes and crap aside, I would say you should feel pretty bad about accepting money for this, but then it occurs to me that it falls right in line with my beliefs about a tax on stupidity (cigarettes and the lotto come to mind), so I say, more power to you! :D

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