Elysian Shadows

Before you read this - I'm quite the objective person. I'm not trying to suggest that "evil" is better then "good". Theses are just observations and ideas on a subject that I'm tired about hearing again and again. My friend was telling me he wants to watch Dead Snow, which in his...

After getting sick of studying this c++ book (It's taking longer then I had hoped) I decided to jump onto Game Maker to make a quick basic game (my mate and my gf are both learning Game Maker hence why I have it). Anyway 3 hours later I have a nice simple game. A planet of some kind with an orbital ...

I know all sorts of languages and am pretty decent with PHP (Procedural) and C# (OOP). I understand how to program and quite well in a few languages. I've just never done anything at such a low level like c++ - it's taking time for me to get wrapped around specific concepts. I just don't learn well ...

Yeah it's pretty tough. I've only managed to get 17,620 points so far. You can mess yourself up bad when your trying to rotate close to the stack. Haha, I got 8920 before I made a mistake that cost me the game. Would be easier if side arrows rotated and down always dropped the piece. Hmm, just got ...

I know. And I've done alot of work with 2D/3D rotations. I should be able to do better then I'm doing :P

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Give it a go.

I'll just be answering the pointer part. okay so first thing thats wrong. & does not give you the value of the pointer, & is a reference of a var. I was pretty much saying & did the same as a pointer! Opps! this is kinda a broad subject and can only be learnt by doing. pointers can be f...

Hey all. I know I could probably find out all of this if I sat down and read a big book of learning c++, but I've always found that I barely learn from it. This is partly because I know enough from other languages that I tend to skip 90% of it, partly because it completely zaps my motivation to prog...

Not exactly relevant, work on getting some more skills up and understanding of c#. Then, since your new to programming, i suggest you start with XNA which is c# based if you want to try out game programming - it handles almost all of the hard yards for you and the tutorials are easy to work with. It...

There is any number of things that could create this programming wise. There IS a known de-sync issue on dual-core/quad-core processors in WinXP, but it generally happens quicker, ie, 1-2 seconds max. It affects other programs, especially other games, but not all programs/games have the issue. It ca...

Generally I only have this issue when I'm lacking sleep/not eating right so I don't have the energy to really do stuff. I assume it's more complex then this but sometimes the issue is that simple. If your too busy you may find your not getting any decent, good sleep.

Also, #pragma once doesn't seem to always work correctly, in my experience with MSVS compilers. #ifndef #define #endif always works. Some compilers won't support it as it's not a proper c++ standard. *always* use #ifndef #define #endif if only for portability. It's not that difficult to do, really....

Having done alot of web-programming myself, I've come to understood that there's nothing better then no IDE, just a good old text-editor and a bunch of firefox addons. The reason is simple, really (my views, not always everyone else's). Most of the IDE's for web development are sadly bloated and ove...