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Jamie23 · 8 Aug 2011 at 18:59

Currently my own work is just trying to pick up some c++ before going into second year of CS. Doing the cplusplus.com tutorials, anyone have any experience of these?

Would mind using this opportunity to ask if pointers are used widely when people are writing c++ commerically? Haven't came across them before in languages I've used previously.

altich88 · 15 Aug 2011 at 22:51

Working on a simple 2D map editor to hopefully make a tile-based RTS or top-down shooter later on.

MR.B · 15 Aug 2011 at 22:56

altich88 said:
Working on a simple 2D map editor to hopefully make a tile-based RTS or top-down shooter later on.

What will you make the game with? Because thats the kind of thing i do with Flash games.

altich88 · 15 Aug 2011 at 23:07

MR.B said:
What will you make the game with? Because thats the kind of thing i do with Flash games.

I usually use C++ and OpenGL+FMOD. (I used GLUT & GLUI for the editor interface so I might look for a nicer library elsewhere later on!)

I hadn't thought about using another language but that might be quite a good idea actually. I've just finished Uni where we used C++ exclusively for graphics modules so it would be cool to try something else :cool:

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sunama · 15 Aug 2011 at 23:19

Is C++ not the fastest language around, thus making it the first choice when creating games?

MR.B · 15 Aug 2011 at 23:59

altich88 said:
I hadn't thought about using another language but that might be quite a good idea actually. I've just finished Uni where we used C++ exclusively for graphics modules so it would be cool to try something else .

Well if you ever try another language you might want to consider Flash

... the major advantage is that the game/content can run in any web browser of course, but you can also compile to an Adobe AIR app file with a few mouse clicks, and AIR is cross-platform and runs on any desktop OS and some phone OS's like Android and iOS (but AIR has to be installed). So you make the game once without having to make loads of different versions for each OS.

Heres an Android game i'm making using AIR. It uses physics and you control a ball through a maze by tilting the phone...

Thats a shot of it running on my Samsung Galaxy S2 (it's nowhere near finished btw). The only disadvantage is that AIR isn't as fast as C++ or an OS's native language but performance is still good and on Android it's GPU accelerated :cool:

altich88 · 16 Aug 2011 at 01:02

Hmm that sounds pretty cool actually, think I'll give flash a look then - cheers for the info!

Game looks awesome too :cool:

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Russinating · 9 Sep 2011 at 10:10

Just finished and launched the site I was working on before: www.jonesmillbank.com

Tilluss · 9 Sep 2011 at 12:09

altich88 said:
Hmm that sounds pretty cool actually, think I'll give flash a look then - cheers for the info!

Game looks awesome too .

Or maybe just look for a dedicated games engine that you can publish to all of those platforms (including flash soon) like Unity3d?

Xelene · 9 Sep 2011 at 16:59

sunama said:
Is C++ not the fastest language around, thus making it the first choice when creating games?

depends on the game, not everything needs extreme performance and a higher level language can make the development time and costs cheaper

I'm coding my space game in Python which will run on Linux/OSX/Windows - but looking at porting it to Unity, which will open up iOS/Android and browsers via Flash. (That would then be coded in JavaScript)

KrooKedUK · 11 Sep 2011 at 17:24

Last project I did was on my placement, I handled the design and markup... no development http://belfastmela.org.uk

Currrently working on a portfolio redesign before I head back to Uni adding in all the work I carried out on placement

http://cl.ly/0I0r152O0a0F2r1k2G1j

piggeh · 11 Sep 2011 at 18:45

slow progress, working on a joomla template

steve-h · 12 Sep 2011 at 05:54

ace of spades cheat

KrooKedUK · 12 Sep 2011 at 21:35

Finished my redesign today... now to code it up and write some proper copy!

POB · 13 Sep 2011 at 10:11

Not a design project but I'm working on my Astrology WebService:

http://webservice.stardm.com/APIMethods.aspx

Apok · 13 Sep 2011 at 23:16

My first personal website, will hopefully get better as i teach myself the various languages.

http://apok.csignal.org/

sunama · 13 Sep 2011 at 23:55

Apok said:
My first personal website, will hopefully get better as i teach myself the various languages.

http://apok.csignal.org/

"This site is currently being redesigned..."

Can you increase the size of that image/font...I could barely read it.

Limenote · 14 Sep 2011 at 02:27

sunama said:
"This site is currently being redesigned..."

Can you increase the size of that image/font...I could barely read it.

I agree, low contrast and small font makes it difficult, where is the website also?

Apok · 14 Sep 2011 at 17:46

Xink said:
I agree, low contrast and small font makes it difficult, where is the website also?

Website is coming, trying to juggle putting it up with work at the moment.

just getting a placeholder page up to make sure my markup/ coding is ok.

Limenote · 14 Sep 2011 at 20:48

Apok said:
Website is coming, trying to juggle putting it up with work at the moment.

just getting a placeholder page up to make sure my markup/ coding is ok.

ah, thought you put it up then took it down :|