Elysian Shadows

Hello World, I'm Zach I'm 12 (Sunday I'll be 13) and I'm pretty knew to the forums but I've been watching the AiGD series from the beginning and it inspired me to learn to program (Which I'm starting this summer do to school). My aunt is also a computer programmer and she has also had a lot of influ...

Mine was an Snes that my brother owned my first personally owned console was an N64

So was the transition from java to c++ not to bad?
If so i think i want to cut out the middle man and start with java and move onto c++

OmegaGDS wrote:I've heard that python is pretty good, but I have never used it myself

So you recommend java? if so is it simple? Because i still haven't completely decided but I cant start programming until summertime because of school work.

OK, so i have recently become a big Diablo 2 player and i was wondering what language it was programmed in, what kind of veiw is it(top down, isometric, etc.), has anyone made a Diablo 2 clone on the forums, and how does battle.net work 1 server or multiple servers or what?

Thanks,
Zach

Your only complaining because you don't have a dreamcast to play it on.

I would advice you to have as much fun as you can coding. Writing games is a complex task, and doing it in C++ will make it even harder. I found programming to be fun with c++ but it was a little to complicated for me at the time so that's why I'm reverting back to simpler languages like DB, Python...

I hear Python is a wonderful place to start. Yea, I know, I started with python before attempting c++ but it was so simple and i got ahead of myself and tried c++. I also didn't want to start with it because I want programming and making games a my job after college. I thought that C# and C++ would...

As I said before I am a noob but please don't make fun, I've read many posts on here, watched all of the Adventures in Game Development videos, and Beginner videos. It really has inspired me. I know that expecting to much is the downfall of many good games, I'm different than the others who come on ...