my two cents...

gameplay is the most important thing about a game. graphics may be cool but they won't make a game good on their own, but i don't think that better graphics could ever hurt a game.

i am about to enter college, going to the field, and i was wondering the same thing...

posts 10 and 11 are in a weird order :D

i self taught myself java about two years ago, when i first started reading about it, it seemed daunting. but once i actually started to do the stuff in the tutorials and books, i started to get...

i don't have any of those moments from this site, but looking at past projects, i definitely do.
even now i still make a ton of projects called <NAME>Test, or <NAME>try, where name is some type of...

uh did that help at all?

agreed

how do you make it do anything usefull, while keeping the code readable?

i looked at brainf**k (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain****), and i don't get why anyone would use it, it's really confusing, and unreadable

ok, makes sense, i am already pretty fluent in java, and am happy with it, i'm also pretty familiar with c++

i was just curious, though

out of curiosity why the one you like the least?

does your plain "hello world" work in bloodshed?
#include <cstdlib>
#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
system("PAUSE");
return EXIT_SUCCESS;

in dev-cpp with your project open, go to Project->Project Options go to the parameters tab under linker type -lalleg

hope this helps