Elysian Shadows

cool, thanks :D

oh... i'm an artist, so i thought you had to use something like adoble photoshop to make backgrounds for videogames (2D ones at least).

Wow, this is a huge surprize and i have question for basically everything you guys said.  My first question is why dont more people use Flash then, or at least i never hear about it on the forums? there must be a reason... it must have some limitations.   It's by no means a game maker; it cannot m...

I was toying around with Adobe Flash last year, to make 2D animations with. But i remember seeing that the program is also used to make video games. Would that make it like Game Maker, allthough it has some scripting involved i believe? What do you guys think; worth looking into or not?

what do you mean simple text format, and the BG artist doesnt need to know programming? also, i thought that the background artist just uses graphics software to make BG's.

so what API's can you use with Python?

perfect. what a nice little thing SDL sounds like. cant wait! (enthusiastic now, but just wait till it frustrates me!!)... can't wait!! haha :D

got it. very good advice. so, things like python, blitzbasic and darkbasic are game specific programming languages. use that as a type of framework to structure yourself when it comes time to use a full programming language, such as C. sounds like great practice and good place to begin for the begin...

wow, thats great. you actually answered a question i had. so we dont HAVE to use openGL with sdl... its just an option because opengl can handle more involved graphics. so from what you said, SDL does graphics too... sounds like a nice little API to me. i can see the appeal with it, as it seems like...

Path #1: I see you say you decided on C++, I would say that's not too good of a choice as a beginner language. I would start with Python for example, it is simpler and (I think) it's great for learning the concepts of programing. If you want to start with it, go to this Python Tutoria l and learn s...

well, i gotta be honest and say that the Direct series does seem apealing because of its convenience BUT if the only thing needed to make a game is SDL and openGL (along with C or whatever of course) then I would like to check that out first. guess it all comes down to preference although i do remem...

yea, youre totally right... i'm getting too nit-picky. i'm just gonna get them both and check them both out. whichever one sticks, we'll see.

I have to agree with Herby on this one, and also take Marauder's word for it that it's apparently harder to distribute for, since he is a game developer. I mean, of course it is possible to distribute with it I am sure, logically thinking; BUT is it the most convenient?? So that brings me to the que...

Not quite sure what the difference is between sdl and allegro. it looks like it does everything that sdl does, but i think i saw someone say that allegro doesnt have a wrapper for opengl. so it must handle graphics pretty well. maybe one's easier to learn that the other?

i don't get it; what exactly is Microsoft Visual C++? if i'm running windows and just want to learn regular C++, what's best to use?