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watts320
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Posted: 31st Jan 2005 06:19
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I know nothin about programming or anything apart from i can draw lol

Where shud i start then so i can learn how to make games like say... Metal Gear Solid type. With the 3rd person view an such?

Thank You.

Watts
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Baggers
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Posted: 31st Jan 2005 10:36
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Woe there watts, hold back your trusty donkey steed and listen to what you said, from no experience to MGS...its a bit of a jump, but dont think im saying you cant do it, far from it just work on it section by section.
Get to grips with the basics of DB-/PRO with things like moving cubes , knowing what matrices are and how to work them, getting the cube to walk over hills on matrix etc.
Then take those principles further, load an object for your room, and get the cube to walk round in it...
To be honest its up to you, some people will say start with Pacman or pong....i hate pacman! so i didnt do it, i tryed to write a 3rd person shooter, and failed after a while, but i learnt alot from it.
Feel free to ask more questions on specifics of game design/making or if you want more help just email me, the link is just below !
Good Luck man ! and keep visualising your MGS game...one day you could do it!
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watts320
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Posted: 31st Jan 2005 10:39
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Yea. Sorry I didnt mean to rush into a game like that lol.

Where can i find some good tutorials that will get me to learn how to input the code and such. I looked on a topic on here but the links where dead.

Watts
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Opus
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Posted: 31st Jan 2005 13:22
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Usually the links are dead because people move to another website. You can, however, access most of the available DarkBasic tutorials by simply entering "DarkBasic Tutorials" in a search engine.

That aside, depending on your version [is it DB Classic or DB Professional?], you can find tutorials on the Game Creator's site itself by accessing the menus.

Yellow's Curved Basic Tutorials are good, as well as those found on the www.nuclearpublishing.com site. There are others, but most of them, as I said, can be found by doing a searh engine call.

Best of luck to you.

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Foxy
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Posted: 31st Jan 2005 17:11
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I don't want to spam or anything but if you're interested in making shooter games there is a little something I'm writing for someone else in this thread:

http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=47221&b=7

That starts at the very beginning for shooter type games.

Anyway, good luck. Just stick to it and in what seems like no time you'll be working on that MGS game.

If I were you and you were me, then you'd be yourself 'cos you are me and I am you.
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Opus
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I saw that thread Durdge39 and I must say that you are doing fantastic work there. I think that it will be a great help to newbies wanting to go right into FPS coding. It deserves a sticky for sure.

Eternal student in search of knowledge. But will settle for the occasional epiphany.
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