"I shall blast you with fire!"

Posted by Astryl on March 29, 2012, 3:53 a.m.

Err… LIGHTNING!

That's one of my latest GBA style RPG/Platformer character concepts. I've finally cracked the GBA/SNES styel.

Anyways…

I've begun writing a series of tutorials intended to teach C, and eventually C++ and C# to Game Maker users (Or general beginners).

Of course, I've taught several people IRL, but I've never written down a tutorial like this…

So harsh criticism welcome.

http://64digits.com/users/Mega/01_-_Setting_up_and_working_with_GCC.pdf

and

http://64digits.com/users/Mega/02_-_Beginning_to_work_with_C.pdf

Also, I'm uploading a timelapse video I made last night in about four hours of me making a little game from scratch.

Here we go:

Comments

JuurianChi 12 years, 8 months ago

Oh, cool.

I'm also doing code tutorials.

Moikle 12 years, 8 months ago

:D I have been procrastinating from trying to learn C and C++ for a little while, ima have a look

Hmm, I can't find mingw32 4 anything, the webpage is very hard to navigate >_<

Ferret 12 years, 8 months ago

Do most people use code::blocks? I find it to be obnoxious…. Personally I use g++ in cmd and edit in Notepad++, though eventually I'm going to move to Visual Studio.

Moikle 12 years, 8 months ago

Code::blocks was recommended to me by a lot of people.

death 12 years, 8 months ago

sweet video. man your too good at this lol. you gonna upload that? O_O

you work amazingly fast and produce high quality. im slow and produce buggy games most the time =\

anyway i'll try your tutorials once i get the time.

Cesque 12 years, 8 months ago

If I ever start learning C++ and XML, I'll probably just get Visual Studio Express and then reverse-engineer the game example you posted last time :)

Astryl 12 years, 8 months ago

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If I ever start learning C++ and XML, I'll probably just get Visual Studio Express and then reverse-engineer the game example you posted last time :)
That was a C# example, not C++. So that would be 'rewriting' it, not reverse engineering it. :P

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Do most people use code::blocks? I find it to be obnoxious…. Personally I use g++ in cmd and edit in Notepad++, though eventually I'm going to move to Visual Studio.
Most people do. I also tend to use the command line tools and Notepad++ these days. Also: makefiles.

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sweet video. man your too good at this lol. you gonna upload that? O_O

you work amazingly fast and produce high quality. im slow and produce buggy games most the time =\

anyway i'll try your tutorials once i get the time.
I'll upload it when I've polished it a bit. Still isn't much of a game (You kill an endless and increasing stream of Slimes).

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Hmm, I can't find mingw32 4 anything, the webpage is very hard to navigate >_<
Let me find a hard-link.

Well well, they made it even easier now. Download this:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/latest/download?source=files

It's an installer that allows you to download and install the correct compiler. In the compiler selection list, just check the C and C++ compilers. Ignore the other options for now.

Cesque 12 years, 8 months ago

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That was a C# example, not C++. So that would be 'rewriting' it, not reverse engineering it. :P

Dammit.