Your Game Making Application

The latest and greatest is Visual Studio 2008 (Express is the free version). The program itself might be built on .NET, but it does not force you to build your applications with .NET. You really don't have any idea what you're talking about.

You are not forced to use .NET any more than you are forced to use DirectX ... if it's convenient for you, than use it. If not, then don't.

You are not forced to use the .NET framework.



Also, RII, they are working on 2010, and it has a Community Technology Preview. But of course, it will only be released in 2010, so ...

This post has been edited by Baroque on Mar 12 2009, 12:09 AM

Well naturally they'd be working on a newer latest and greatest (why kill a profitable cash cow), but I generally only care about mainstream.

K then, I probably misunderstood the name. I was told in tutorials that it's called Visual Studio .NET 2008 and I misinterpreted the name.

yeah uh


if i were you, i'd go along with the guy who graduated from a CS program

This post has been edited by DJ Yoshiman on Mar 12 2009, 11:39 AM

essentially?

aren't you still going on to another year as a super?

No I'm going on to graduate school.

oh alright


so let me just eliminate "essentially" from my post

GM7 Pro

well this is because gm is horribly designed; yell at overmars and/or yoyo games to actually do something about it (such as precompiling the scripts so that doesn't have to be done every. single. ****ing. time. you run the game)

oh and by doing that the exes wouldn't be ****ing bloated with **** like comments and the overhead of plaintext scripts (the former shouldn't even NEED to exist in the exes anyway, and the latter should be bytecode)

several bug testers and good knowledge of X language will also help. also have fun recompiling your game every time you have to fix something

you're going to get glitches no matter what you use, and just about any half-serious programming or scripting language will provide error messages detailed enough for you to find bugs

you forgot that the chances of a game being released are inversely proportional to how long it takes to make it; like rii said, most of the HUGE games on the site are that way because they use a ton of graphics, sounds, and music—stuff that doesn't exactly shrink if you switch to c++

don't know how c++ instantly makes you a pro, because some people will argue that "you aren't a pro" unless you program in ASM and ASM only; you're being just as lazy by using SDL or SFML

LUA

yes, that also includes Lua

"nil" *end of error*

unless you're using lua+ it should at least tell you what was attempting to use nil when it shouldn't have

Yeah, Lua errors are detailed enough to solve the problem.

XLua does a much better job with error messages.

damn 180º

I was actually about to ask that but figured it was unrelated to topic

As usual, xgoff is the best poster. Yes, it would be smarter to yell at Overmars and Yoyo, but that probably won't help much.

You have to recompile it every time in Game Maker too. Several Bug Testers will help you find Bugs easier so you can fix them sooner. Good knowledge of any language will help you when using that language.

Yes, that is true. But you are more likely to create Glitches in harder programming languages like C++ and ASM.

Which is why you also need dedication to make a game. Switching to C++ will help with size, because AFAIK, Game Maker doesn't compress the Resources, and more than likely increases their size. With external resources, you can compress them as much as you want.

No, I said Mastering C++ is much harder, but it makes you a Pro. Using only ASM... that's stupid. Sanity should tell you not to use only ASM, unless you're a super-oldbie who loves the old languages, but then you'd probably say that you aren't PRO until you use Machine Code. Not sure if you're saying that THEY will call me lazy for using SFML, or if YOU are calling me lazy.