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Assassin2684 - Sat May 27, 2006 10:03 am
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Ok, im going to start working on a game. I pretty much want a interactive world. But thats not inportant right now, im looking for a game engine or how would I make my own? Thats pretty much what I need help is because I dont know how to make my own game engine. When I went to Books a Million I saw books on game programming, game making, ect. I dont know if one of those will help me with my journey to the game world. But if anyone has any infomation to help at all with making games, it would help me alot. Thanks in advance.

Cyan~Fire - Sat May 27, 2006 11:18 am
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Start with smaller projects first. Make the classic breakout or something.

Mine GO BOOM - Sat May 27, 2006 12:07 pm
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If you want a good engine, I've played with Ogre3D a couple of times and was very impressed by it. Simple to use and very powerful. It is quickly approaching the levels of current private game engines.

Assassin2684 - Sat May 27, 2006 12:58 pm
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Thats a nice engine, I will check it out.

@Cyan- Dont you need a engine to start a game like that also? Although I should probably wait until I get my book. Tell me if this book is good or not because I might be getting it if its good to start out with.

http://www.booksamillion.com/ncom/books?id=3487393859721&isbn=1592008348

xsp0rtsfanx - Sat May 27, 2006 1:13 pm
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i have that book. you're learning blitz basic not C++

so unless you want to learn blitz basic it might not be the best book. its an easy language but way different to c++[/url]

Bak - Sat May 27, 2006 2:34 pm
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http://www.ogre3d.org/wiki/index.php/GetStarted#Is_Ogre_a_game_engine.3F

Assassin2684 - Sat May 27, 2006 5:33 pm
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I got a different book, explains alot better then that other book. Im going to be looking at that book and reading it. So i will see what happens...

Smong - Sun May 28, 2006 7:33 am
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I make my games/editors in C with a library called SDL, which provides support for keyboard/mouse input and graphics among other things. If you want to go this route you might find parts of this site helpful:
http://lazyfooproductions.com/SDL_tutorials/index.php

SDL is not a game engine. If you want to make your own I usually start with high level graphics, then move onto a physics system and a map/collision system.