http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/Cplusplus/Using-MFC-in-Cplus-Basic-Application-Skeleton/

You can also create a MFC application in Visual C++ pretty easily by creating a Windows Forms Application....

You should learn a programming language first. I suggest C or C++. You should buy some books on those programming languages and check out http://www.gamedev.net
They have a lot of good stuff for...

I have a book about TGE and I had the same problem. I don't think that it was the same book but try looking on the cd for the directory. That's where I found what I was looking for.

So I am trying to set up Lua on Visual C++ 2008 and I keep getting this error:

error C3861: 'luaL_newstate': identifier not found

Here is an example of my code:


#include <iostream>
...

Does anybody know how to rotate a sprite around the center of the image rather than the top left corner in Dark GDK?

What header do I use for arcsin()?

Yes that does help thank you!

Thank You!!!

I am new at this. I am trying to make a little top down 2D game where the character rotates towards the mouse. Got any ideas?

Is there any way that I can get the sin(), cos() and tan() functions to return an angle? For example, like when you press 2nd then sin on a calculator. Or should I use different functions?

Does anybody know where I can find a good reference book or website about the Dark GDK Library?

Dark GDK come's with some PDF files that give you some basic tutorials. You can find them by going to Program Files\The Game Creators\Dark GDK\Tutorials. If you read all of them you should be able to...