Forum: Game Development  Aug 7th, 2008 |
| Replies: 8 Views: 1,667 Re: Decent RPG tutorials (or even books)
Wow... that's some... good advice there, beefy.
I agree with Phaelax... trying to fit the whole thing in your head at once will lead to nosebleeds and blindness. Take it from someone who knows:... |
| Forum: Game Development Aug 7th, 2008 |
| Replies: 6 Views: 970 Re: Cross Console Gaming
It seems to me that the only thing that prevents developers from doing just what you're describing more often is red-tape. From a purely technical point-of-view, there's nothing keeping programmers... |
| Forum: C++ Apr 23rd, 2008 |
| Replies: 3 Views: 273 C++ and scripting languages...
I'm looking for a bit of advice. We're getting to the point in our game development where I need to start thinking how we're going to integrate scripting into the game engine. I was looking at Lua,... |
| Forum: Game Development Apr 17th, 2008 |
| Replies: 34 Views: 3,033 Re: I am wanting to be a gamecoder any Advice.
My point was that there is no magical "gamecoder" profession, per se. The reality of writing games is the same reality that "normal" software engineers live in. Game code is no different than any... |
| Forum: Techies' Lounge Apr 15th, 2008 |
| Replies: 60 Views: 4,919 Re: Newbie needs help building a server
Do you feel that Debian is more stable that Fedora? I'm not poking at you, or trying to start a distro-war... I'm honestly really curious. Is there any particular reason why you feel that way? Of... |
| Forum: Techies' Lounge Apr 14th, 2008 |
| Replies: 60 Views: 4,919 Re: Newbie needs help building a server
Thanks for the suggestion, but I think I'm going to stick with Fedora. I've got nothing against Debian at all... heard really good things about it... but I'm so used to where everything is located... |
| Forum: Techies' Lounge Apr 13th, 2008 |
| Replies: 60 Views: 4,919 Re: Newbie needs help building a server
It always amazes me how very little machine Linux and Apache really require, as long as you're not expecting a really high volume of hits on your site. I'm running Fedora 7 and Apache/PHP on a... |
| Forum: Techies' Lounge Apr 12th, 2008 |
| Replies: 60 Views: 4,919 Re: Newbie needs help building a server
Now THAT'S what I'm talking about! You don't need to drop $10k for something that will do the trick. If you can live with a machine that's maybe one or two generations old, you can save yourself a... |
| Forum: Techies' Lounge Apr 11th, 2008 |
| Replies: 60 Views: 4,919 Re: Newbie needs help building a server
Wow... that was...
Anyhow... your choice of server really depends on what you're planning on doing. As jbennet just suggested, secondhand equipment can do the trick really very well, and costs a... |
| Forum: Game Development Apr 8th, 2008 |
| Replies: 34 Views: 3,033 Re: I am wanting to be a gamecoder any Advice.
Yes... all these things are very true. C/C++ is the basis of EVERYTHING you're going to want to do. There might be some scripting languages along the way (LUA comes to mind), but the basics are... |
| Forum: C++ Mar 18th, 2008 |
| Replies: 13 Views: 409 Re: How am I getting these errors?
That's a very good solution. If your teacher has not gone over pass-by-value vs. pass-by-reference, or global vs. local variables, now would be a good time to bring that up.
CAMERON, FOR THE WIN!!! |
| Forum: Community Introductions Mar 18th, 2008 |
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| Forum: Game Development Mar 18th, 2008 |
| Replies: 17 Views: 1,866 Re: Game engine!! but how?
Yes. Best place to start = OpenGL, C++, AI, and Modeling books from Barnes and Noble / Borders / Amazon. It will take a while to get something like that going... yes, even the simplest of engines... |
| Forum: Game Development Mar 18th, 2008 |
| Replies: 11 Views: 1,369 |
| Forum: Game Development Mar 14th, 2008 |
| Replies: 11 Views: 1,656 Re: RPG Help
I'm not sure of any sort of "libraries" of images like that, but if you're looking at having to make them yourself, perhaps Google Sketchup might help you to rapidly create the images. I dunno...... |
| Forum: Game Development Mar 14th, 2008 |
| Replies: 5 Views: 1,268 Re: Game server hosting ?
It would also depend on whether or not your ISP allows incoming connections. Some block ports, some don't. |
| Forum: Game Development Mar 14th, 2008 |
| Replies: 7 Views: 845 Re: HELP im new
Wow... I wouldn't have called that "advice" as much as "criticism", but perhaps that's just me...
To get to the heart of your question: Are there any free 3D engines and modeling programs available... |
| Forum: Techies' Lounge Mar 14th, 2008 |
| Replies: 60 Views: 4,919 Re: Newbie needs help building a server
Good points... it really is all about the money. With that in mind, you might also investigate getting ahold of a multi-core CPU'd PC to use as a server. In a lot of cases, a "non-server" PC can... |
| Forum: Computer Science and Software Design Mar 13th, 2008 |
| Replies: 2 Views: 384 Re: project idea
I actually did some similiar work on a website not too long ago. I wanted users to be able to send information from a cellular phone to their account on my website. I used an email account,... |
| Forum: Game Development Mar 13th, 2008 |
| Replies: 11 Views: 1,369 |
| Forum: Techies' Lounge Mar 13th, 2008 |
| Replies: 60 Views: 4,919 Re: Newbie needs help building a server
I totally agree with DimaYasny... it completely depends on what you're going to have the server doing, and what sort of volume load you're expecting it to handle.
Brand name is always a plus, if... |
| Forum: Game Development Mar 13th, 2008 |
| Replies: 20 Views: 4,229 Re: Web-based RPG game advice needed
I've got a good friend who wrote a web-based MMO completely in PHP using MySQL as his data storage method. That's probably the route that I would take were I to give it a shot. |
| Forum: Game Development Mar 13th, 2008 |
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| Forum: Game Development Oct 17th, 2007 |
| Replies: 32 Views: 3,721 Re: Starting a new course
It's definately not for everyone... I understand that some people would want the fine control of coding DirectX and/or OpenGL by hand. |
| Forum: Game Development Oct 15th, 2007 |
| Replies: 32 Views: 3,721 Re: Starting a new course
I'm surprised no-one mentioned OGRE as a graphics engine. I'm going to start sounding like a broken record around here, but it really is a very good product, and it's open-source and free to use. |
| Forum: Game Development Oct 15th, 2007 |
| Replies: 5 Views: 1,573 Re: C++ BGI Graphics
Yes... definately time to move up in the world.
Might I suggest... perhaps OGRE 3D? I'm going to sound like I'm selling the thing (I'm not... not affiliated with it, except that I've used it), but... |
| Forum: Game Development Oct 15th, 2007 |
| Replies: 20 Views: 4,913 Re: What is the best 3d Program
This is a more complicated question than just "what can I use to create my 3D objects?". You've got to keep the whole system in mind, and have a VERY good understand of how the content creation... |
| Forum: Game Development Oct 15th, 2007 |
| Replies: 74 Views: 8,529 Re: Game Engine
I disagree as well... From an language architecture standpoint, C and C++ are always going to be better than Java, simply because of Java's dependance on the Virtual Machine. While Java is always... |
| Forum: Game Development Sep 27th, 2007 |
| Replies: 2 Views: 1,713 Re: Ogre
OGRE is a sexy little beastie. We're using it in the development of our MMORPG engine. It's got tons of features, and there are SDK's available to integrate it directly with Newton Game Dynamics... |
| Forum: Game Development Sep 27th, 2007 |
| Replies: 74 Views: 8,529 Re: Game Engine
My brother and I are actually in the midst of writing a "game engine", and I can tell you it is no small task. If you're looking to get a game put together in less than a couple of years (at least... |
| Forum: Geeks' Lounge Feb 1st, 2007 |
| Replies: 5 Views: 5,865 |
| Forum: Geeks' Lounge Jan 26th, 2007 |
| Replies: 11 Views: 1,383 |
| Forum: Geeks' Lounge Jan 26th, 2007 |
| Replies: 2 Views: 6,219 Re: How many computers in total in the world?
While it might not answer your specific question, here's a website that might give you an idea (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~bam/numbers/#ComputerResearch) of what sort of numbers we're talking about... |
| Forum: Geeks' Lounge Jan 26th, 2007 |
| Replies: 5 Views: 5,865 Re: funny little story from my a+ class
You know... I hate to admit this, but I actually had that happen to me once. Not because I didn't know what I was doing (honestly), but because I got lazy.
I set up my router, got everything all... |
| Forum: Posting Games Jan 26th, 2007 |
| Replies: 3,160 Views: 171,534 |
| Forum: Software Developers' Lounge Jan 22nd, 2007 |
| Replies: 8 Views: 2,719 Re: Need Help with college degree option
Well... Nice to meet you, too! You're right... everywhere you go online, you'll meet somebody who's either from Omaha, or knows somebody there, or has family there, etc. Weird, it's it?
First of... |
| Forum: Posting Games Jan 22nd, 2007 |
| Replies: 3,160 Views: 171,534 |
| Forum: Visual Basic 4 / 5 / 6 Jan 22nd, 2007 |
| Replies: 5 Views: 2,954 Re: Validation to avoid Duplicates in Access
That is correct. I'm sorry... I should have specified that. This code snippet was only intended to give you a good idea of how to handle the problem. The names used in this snippet are not... |
| Forum: Game Development Jan 20th, 2007 |
| Replies: 10 Views: 2,982 Re: New Game Announcement
Absolutely, we are very fortunate that my brother D has the experience that he does. It's funny, when we were kids, he never showed any interest in programming. Now he's a full-ride Computer... |
| Forum: Visual Basic 4 / 5 / 6 Jan 19th, 2007 |
| Replies: 5 Views: 2,954  Re: Validation to avoid Duplicates in Access
I think I get what you're trying to do, so I came up with a little bit of code that might help you out. This example was written for a text field, but it should work for any type of field.
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