Creating PC games

tomanders91

tomanders91

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Anyone know a good program for creating basic pc games,

the only thing i could find so far is fpscreator. What about darkbasic? is that simple of hard? just want to make a basic fps or an rpg or something.
 
You can always use Gamemaker, Its nice for making snes like games, you need to get to know it well before you move onto 3D however, basic programing knowledge is also usefull not not required :)
 
If you want to take it far, get to know a proper programming language.

I did a 3d network playable shoot em up for my final year dissertation. Used C++ and the DirectX SDK
 
If you want to do it properly, do as oddjob suggested and learn a proper programming language such as C++. It isn't easy though bud :)
 
3ds max is a pretty gd program to use. though i would have to say you have to be really gd at programming to use this :D this is used to make world of worcraft and games like that
 
If you are patient enough, go through the tutorials of 3DS Max to create amazing games.

FPS Creator is ok, not good though but i suppose if you use your imagination enough you could create something pretty good. There are also patches you can download for more textures and models and so on.

There is also the Unreal Tournament engine that a lot of people find easy to grasp. It comes free with UT 2004 and is pretty powerful.
 
Div Games studio.

Ive had it ages, never really bothered with it butmy bro made a couple of side scrolling shooters with it.

If its an FPS, then i would suggest getting into C++ and the original halflife, great mapping program, easy to make models and skins for and easy to mod for.
 
For a complete beginner fps, fpscreator like you mentioned would probably be fun to play about with, for a beginner rpg you could try RPG Maker XP.

Don't discount simple programs like these because not much programming is required, A indie game called Aveyond was made with RGP Maker Xp and it sold very well.

Other things you could look at are dark basic, blitz basic, or learn some programming like others mentioned.
 
I've used both Darkbasic Pro and Blitz3d in recent years. They are both really good if you don't know much about programming but are interested in learning some of the basic concepts behind games programming. They are certainly much easier to learn than game programming in C++ but they still take some learning to get any decent results from. They both have a decent community where you can get plenty of help with the programming.

My recommendation is probably for blitz3d (http://www.blitzbasic.com) it's fun to mess around with if your into that kind of thing and reminds me of the old AMOS on my Amiga which I used to tinker with as a kid :)
 
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