Game Development Tutorial

[johnno56]

I have been a fan of 8 bit for many years. My first descent 8 bit machine was the Amstrad CPC464 back in 1985. Used that thing until it died from exhaustion... lol The only memento I have left is the original spiral-bound manual... But now, I use more 'up to date' versions of Basic. QB64 and RCBasic. I am not after a game engine. I struggle enough with trying to code simple games. I am afraid that creating an Engine exceeds my talents (I use talents 'very' loosely... lol) My greatest difficulty is generating ideas for games... then trying to figure out the best method of turning those ideas into code...

I am not sure if I am making any sense... I want to learn 'how' to develop games. I have seen many tutorials for various types of engines. But they mainly focus on 3D type of games. But finding tutorials for 2D, 8 bit style games, for Basic... meh...

I will keep looking... Thank you for your time...

J

My 2 cents

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Generating ideas for games ... best method to turning those ideas into code...

<------CREATIVITY--------->  ... <------------CODING TECNIQUES------------>


For creativity there are exercisess to magnifiy your state of creatiivity...

for Coding Tecniques there are so infinite tutorials in the web on how you can get an effect or an idea by code on the PC  ( I often look at Coding Train youtube channel that in his 10 minutes challanges he codes some ideas/games in Javascript with P5.js)
we must have a QB64 version of P5  coded by Fellippe & Ashish on the old website.

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I try to code simple games.... not using Engine...

I apologise for my bad communication. The idea of game engine is NOT using a game engine.. or building a game engine to use for game creation
BUT recognize the core of the mechanism of the game with the goal to write clear and optimized code for the game. So it is important to define the gameplay and the hardware resources used for the game.

I hope to be clearer now.
Good Luck for your search.

Ah... Your "2 cents", to me anyway, is priceless...

I have watched many coding train videos, apart from questioning the sanity of the presenter, his methods are even easy enough for 'me' to follow... lol

I have used coding trains 'online' IDE to follow along with his tutorials and I was surprised that I didn't mess things up. I had even thought of trying to convert the examples to Basic, but unfortunately, my knowledge of Javascript is almost non-existent...

I am not a fan of 'engines' but have been tempted to check them out... Unfortunately, the steep learning curve, was a bit of a turn off... I am ok coding 'old school'... lol

I find QB64 quite powerful and the IDE reminds me a lot of the old QB4.5 IDE. Most of the commands are familiar but a lot of the "underscore" commands... I just find them a bit overwhelming... time and practice should take care of that...

I appreciate your advise and yes, you have made things a little clearer.... Thank you.

J