Guest muff Posted October 17, 2004 Report Share Posted October 17, 2004 Hi all I'm thinking about releasing a game engine, along with some tutorials to back it up, to show people how to make a full, but simple, game for the Smartphone. The game engine will include all the code for setting up the window, dealing with keypresses, behaving nicely when a call comes in, and the basic blit routines to get graphics on the screen ^_^. And I wanted to gauge interest before I wade in.. muff (Deliberate cross-post with VC++ section) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest drblow Posted October 17, 2004 Report Share Posted October 17, 2004 I have voted yes, although with great trepidation!! :shock: I would love to learn more about programming, but have no experience whatsoever. Are you talking about coding that even complete twats like me can understand, or would there be a basic level of comprehension required!!?? ^_^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Brody Posted October 17, 2004 Report Share Posted October 17, 2004 muff, GREAT IDEA! ^_^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest muff Posted October 17, 2004 Report Share Posted October 17, 2004 DrBlow : initially I want to get a feeling for the level of interest, then I'll try to gauge skill levels, and work from there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest beersoft Posted October 17, 2004 Report Share Posted October 17, 2004 YES YES YES where do i sign? this sounds like a solid idea, because all my code comes from sdk samples ^_^ later Owen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest squall Posted October 17, 2004 Report Share Posted October 17, 2004 brilliant idea! I know basic c++ but thats about all, would be great if i could continue on and learn from there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest midnight Posted October 17, 2004 Report Share Posted October 17, 2004 and to compliment the code tutorial i'll run some graphics tutorials to help people grasp how to do graphics for games, such as menus, masks, sprite optimisation and even basic animated sprite creation principals. Depending on how in depth muff gets i'll even go into map/level creation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ferret Posted October 17, 2004 Report Share Posted October 17, 2004 Sounds like a great idea muff. Voted yes. ^_^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest RT87 Posted October 17, 2004 Report Share Posted October 17, 2004 Fantastic idea!!! I would love to get started with this stuff. ^_^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest gsr264 Posted October 17, 2004 Report Share Posted October 17, 2004 Count me in!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest PrettyUgly Posted October 18, 2004 Report Share Posted October 18, 2004 Hi all I'm thinking about releasing a game engine, along with some tutorials to back it up, to show people how to make a full, but simple, game for the Smartphone. The game engine will include all the code for setting up the window, dealing with keypresses, behaving nicely when a call comes in, and the basic blit routines to get graphics on the screen ^_^. And I wanted to gauge interest before I wade in.. muff (Deliberate cross-post with VC++ section) i think more importantly, give us a tutorial on learning how to port pocket pc and some old win32 programs to the ms smartphone 2003 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest blewer Posted October 18, 2004 Report Share Posted October 18, 2004 YES, YES, YES!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest muff Posted October 18, 2004 Report Share Posted October 18, 2004 i think more importantly, give us a tutorial on learning how to port pocket pc and some old win32 programs to the ms smartphone 2003 porting is a different set of programming skills and requires you to understand the code in the first place - and on top of that, no 2 ports are EVER the same, so it's hard to 'teach' the idea I have is to show how to make games from scratch, which should then allow you to understand enough to do ports yourself should you still want to - but making stuff yourself is far more satisfying Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Richie M Posted October 18, 2004 Report Share Posted October 18, 2004 MUFF o/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mavisdavis Posted October 18, 2004 Report Share Posted October 18, 2004 YES At last something to do in the evenings. i have am idea for a game already.Posted from my SmartPhone! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest quacka Posted October 18, 2004 Report Share Posted October 18, 2004 YES, i would love to read up on something like this ^_^ very incompetent myself when it comes to visual c++ :D I tried to map keys to this application i have but didn't get anywhere close so basic tutorials would be good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest De-GeXte Posted October 18, 2004 Report Share Posted October 18, 2004 I'm intrested in learning some .NET stuff ... games are always nice to make ^_^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jamma14 Posted October 18, 2004 Report Share Posted October 18, 2004 YES gr8 idea i tried the tutorials on gamesforsmartphones.com but got a bit lost and have been trying to teach myself some basic c++ since to help me understand, so this would be a gr8 idea I'd really like to have a crack at making something! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest muff Posted October 18, 2004 Report Share Posted October 18, 2004 YES gr8 idea i tried the tutorials on gamesforsmartphones.com but got a bit lost and have been trying to teach myself some basic c++ since to help me understand, so this would be a gr8 idea I'd really like to have a crack at making something! change your icon to something more sensible, and I might let ya ^_^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest roozbeh Posted October 19, 2004 Report Share Posted October 19, 2004 it is a very good idea..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest istari Posted October 19, 2004 Report Share Posted October 19, 2004 Brilliant idea... however I have tried programing earlier and failed misserably. I obviously don't have the patience it takes... 10 print "You suck at programing" 20 goto 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest muff Posted October 19, 2004 Report Share Posted October 19, 2004 Brilliant idea... however I have tried programing earlier and failed misserably. I obviously don't have the patience it takes... 10 print "You suck at programing" 20 goto 10 well that proves you understand the basics ^_^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest xAix Posted October 20, 2004 Report Share Posted October 20, 2004 import javax.swing.*; import java.awt.*; import java.awt.event.*; import java.awt.image.*; /** * All right!!! * I finally have a chance * to be a productive member of society! I voted yes!! great idea! */ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest midnight Posted October 20, 2004 Report Share Posted October 20, 2004 java????? isnt that a type of coffee? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest maxh2003 Posted October 20, 2004 Report Share Posted October 20, 2004 I vote YES too, the more the merrier in my view. Muff, presumably (from the cross-post) you have eVC++ in mind, not .NET? - which would make plenty of sense. Might I suggest, though, that Muff's proposed section - like my own tutorials section - will only ever be of *real* use if people feed back information to Muff about what's good and what could be better - as a few people have been kind enough to do with my own, more restrictively-defined tutorials. I littered my prose with "email me with questions" - type links but people don't necessarily do so: tried the tutorials on gamesforsmartphones.com but got a bit lost - it's news to me, Jamma! If you end up trying again, let me know where and how you get stuck. Maybe I can expand my own tutorials so they're a bit more use to yourself and others. I'd *love* to see what midnight has to say about graphics-for-idiots, because all my graphics look like they fell off the back of a Commodore 64 (note: not a Spectrum; no colour clash!)... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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