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Newcomers DBPro Corner / Totally stupid and boring newbie question

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Sk8er Namja
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Posted: 21st Apr 2004 01:11
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Hey guys,

I'm a total newcomer to Dark Basic (I only saw the Demo by now, but I intend to by the boxed classic package next payday), and for what I've seen it's capable of quite something. I always wanted to do my own RTS game someday, and now it seems possible... C++ was always too complicated for me. Anyway... I should start somewhere, right? But not with a big project like a RTS game. Well, I thought of making it 3D based then.

But what do you advise me? I mean where to start? What should I do first? What kind of "game"? I'm through with "Hello World" and a little game to guess a random number the computer picked. Now I wanna do something totally stupid and simple, but I'm looking for some advise of the experts here.

I'm a total newbie, so don't hurt me... [ouch! ouch! ouch! hehe!]

Thanks for your help guys!

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comando 300
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Posted: 21st Apr 2004 01:21 Edited at: 21st Apr 2004 01:22
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Quote: "I mean where to start?"

Reading the manual and the tutorials

Quote: "What kind of "game"?"

An easy retro game as Pong

There's a sticky post tutorial called "My First Pong Game".

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CattleRustler
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Posted: 21st Apr 2004 02:01
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did you say classic?
Go with PRO, trust me.


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BatVink
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Posted: 21st Apr 2004 02:20
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try the dev network tutorials (under the community option above). The Binary Moon tutorials are excellent.

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