New game idea

[bender-bending-Rodriguez]

Hi there all

I have an idea for a new game that i think will sell really well but do not have the know how to go about starting this idea of mine plz if any one could help i would much appreciate this thank you

Regards Bender

[Chunkyfeather]

look into corona for mobile game dev, i its a mobile game :-)


http://www.coronalabs.com/

[LeonG]

Do you want to write the game by yourself?
If so then you will have to learn a programming language and it will take some time.

The best starting point would be to learn plain ANSI C and then after that learn OOP with C++. You probably won’t use these languages to write anything. It will just let you pick the other languages like C#/Java within a day or two.
Or
You can jump directly into the deep end and learn C# or Java from the start.

Java and C# are both excellent languages, but I prefer C# a lot more. Java is a little bit more primitive than C#.
If you decide to go the C# route and learnt all the basics you could check out the Microsoft XNA framework to write games.

If you are going to mainly just target PCs then C#/XNA would be the ideal way to go.
If you are going to mainly target Mobile phones then Java would be the way to go.

[bender-bending-Rodriguez]

Thanks for the info guys i would be looking to develop this game for pc and see how it goes then maybe look towards mobile.
where can i find out about C++ C# java and oop if you would help me out please, thank you

[LeonG]

The best place to start is from a book.

Unfortunately no ‘beginner’ game programming book is perfect. Most suffer from the following:
- Focusses too much on the basics of the actual programming language and very little about game programming
- Tries to fit too much information into a thin book leaving you not with a 100% understanding of what is going on
- Focusses too much on game programming and less on the basics of the programming language

This book looks okay from the description on Amazon(no reviews yet):
http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Prog...2090504&sr=8-6

Otherwise I think you could google around for some basic C#/Java tutorials.

For Java development you can use the following:
Download the JDK from: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/ja...ads/index.html
Download Netbeans from: http://netbeans.org/downloads/index.html

For C# development you can use any of the following IDEs:
SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/Download/ <-You will need to download the .NET framework separately
Or
Microsoft Visual C# 2010 Express: http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudi...csharp-express