Message to any game devs

[Rocketman919]

Ok, i am a beginner but just had a question. I am about halfway through my Learn C book, and i dont understand for the life of me how a game can be made out of this. Maybe i just havent gotten to that part in the book yet, or maybe it comes in on one of my later books, but right now all i am learning is things like printf, if-else statements, variables, operators, etc. Just general coding stuff.

So i guess my overall question is, how does a game work?

[Zwilnik]

Originally Posted by Rocketman919

Ok, i am a beginner but just had a question. I am about halfway through my Learn C book, and i dont understand for the life of me how a game can be made out of this. Maybe i just havent gotten to that part in the book yet, or maybe it comes in on one of my later books, but right now all i am learning is things like printf, if-else statements, variables, operators, etc. Just general coding stuff.

So i guess my overall question is, how does a game work?

That's already enough to write a simple text adventure (I've got a sample one I wrote years ago but it's a Codewarrior format, so I'll have to convert it to Xcode at some point).

[Schenk Studios]

RocketMan, check out some of our tutorials. Especially the ones on animation. That should give you some idea of how a game could possibly be developed!

[Eric5h5]

Originally Posted by Rocketman919

Maybe i just havent gotten to that part in the book yet, or maybe it comes in on one of my later books, but right now all i am learning is things like printf, if-else statements, variables, operators, etc. Just general coding stuff.

That's what games are made of...lots and lots of "general coding stuff". Think of those things as building blocks. Unfortunately (or maybe not), there isn't a magic "make a game" command.

--Eric

[ipodtouchuser]

Originally Posted by Eric5h5

That's what games are made of...lots and lots of "general coding stuff". Think of those things as building blocks. Unfortunately (or maybe not), there isn't a magic "make a game" command.

--Eric

Yep! Unlike what many people think, you don't type in "make awesome game," press Enter, then have an awesome game appear on your desktop.

[Rocketman919]

Originally Posted by Eric5h5

That's what games are made of...lots and lots of "general coding stuff". Think of those things as building blocks. Unfortunately (or maybe not), there isn't a magic "make a game" command.

--Eric

Originally Posted by ipodtouchuser

Yep! Unlike what many people think, you don't type in "make awesome game," press Enter, then have an awesome game appear on your desktop.

I know that. You didn't answer my question. Let me rephrase it. How do lines of text and pictures form a playable game?

[Modus]

Originally Posted by Rocketman919

I know that. You didn't answer my question. Let me rephrase it. How do lines of text and pictures form a playable game?

I feel a zen moment coming on.

Philosophy aside, you've learned a little about a language, and the next step is to learn how to apply it in a specific environment. So Obj-C, is useful in Cocoa, where Cocoa contains all the code for handling platform-specific functionality: displaying images and text, accessing data, input, etc.. (read about the meaning of API's and Frameworks)

Once you have a better grasp on how to make things move around and generally do the stuff you'd like it to, you can plan a game. Start with utterly basic stuff, no matter how ambitious you are... too much ambition too early will just lead you down complicated roads and you'll learn nothing and be frustrated by everything.

Bring much patience...

[CladCreations]

Originally Posted by ipodtouchuser

Yep! Unlike what many people think, you don't type in "make awesome game," press Enter, then have an awesome game appear on your desktop.

ahhahahahahahhHAHHAHaha thats the funniest thing ive ever read in a forum LOL OMG hahahahah

[PointOfLight]

Originally Posted by ipodtouchuser

Yep! Unlike what many people think, you don't type in "make awesome game," press Enter, then have an awesome game appear on your desktop.

That certainly explains a lot

[gillygize]

I guess your question has to do with interfaces? So lines and graphics can become a game when you learn how to change the lines and graphics in response to something the user does, like a keystroke or, in the iPod Touch's case, a tap on the screen. Does that answer your question?