I went the the game developer's conference in San Jose. It was great! Did anybdy else here go? I went to a two-day game design tutorial. I got some great...
Forest Handford
forestj@...
Apr 5, 2001 3:34 am
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Man I just wish we had things like that around here! I live in a town 98,000. The closest major cities El paso / Dallas are 6 hours away! Man to be able to go...
Eric capps
ericcapps@...
Apr 5, 2001 5:06 pm
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Yeah, it was kind of expensive, but it was very worth it. It cost me $500 for the game tuning pass, $180 for the flights between San Diego and San Jose (I was...
Forest Handford
fhandford@...
Apr 5, 2001 5:30 pm
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just following instructions. please may i join your nice group ,oh go on....
g.sandles
g.sandles@...
Apr 12, 2001 11:18 pm
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Hey ECG and Members, I've done C++ games and even tried the good old Adventure Game Studio to get my kicks, but do any of you know where I can get some VB Game...
Rob V. Huizar
kamadori_sama@...
Apr 21, 2001 12:03 am
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I might be able to help you here (and anyone else who'd like some examples). A friend and I are both currently working on VB games for classes and I would be...
RCN
rob.z@...
Apr 21, 2001 12:13 am
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Hey, just giving a shout out to say I'm a new member of this group. I have textbased RPG in Visual Basic. Kind of Simple. I'm going to be transferring it...
JOE--
strip_mobius@...
Apr 23, 2001 5:57 pm
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Hi All, A visitor recently noticed the following sentence in the chapter, "The not equal to operator, != . With this we could say 5 ! = 4 and get a false...
Forest Handford
forestj@...
May 3, 2001 2:23 pm
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The following EastCoastGames poll is now closed. Here are the final results: POLL QUESTION: What is/are your favorite programming languages? CHOICES AND...
EastCoastGames@yahoog...
May 3, 2001 2:41 pm
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Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the EastCoastGames group: Do you like East Coast Games page design, or would it be better another way? ...
EastCoastGames@yahoog...
May 3, 2001 2:51 pm
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Hello. My name is Ole. I was born in Denmark 35 years ago, but moved to Houston, Texas in '96 where I have been since. I started programming in basic and...
Ole Drews Jensen
ojensen@...
May 18, 2001 4:38 pm
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Hi Ole, Almost all of today's AAA titles are written in C or C++ with some in- line assembly. There are a few AAA titles written in proprietary languages....
Forest Handford
forestj@...
May 18, 2001 5:01 pm
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Thanks for your quick reply Forest. What is AAA? I do have experience with C and C++, but it was never my preferred language. Borland Pascal with it's...
Ole Drews Jensen
ojensen@...
May 18, 2001 5:06 pm
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AAA or triple-A means top ranking games. So games like StarCraft, Zelda, and Oddworld: Abe's Odyssey. An example of a non-triple A game would be Last Call....
Forest Handford
forestj@...
May 18, 2001 5:12 pm
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For those of you who are using C++ as one of your main programming tools, which one would you recommend as the best/most reliable compiler? Microsoft...
Ole Drews Jensen
ojensen@...
May 21, 2001 2:32 pm
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Borland! ... From: "Ole Drews Jensen" <ojensen@...> To: <EastCoastGames@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 8:26 AM Subject:...
Blaine Calkins
bcalkins@...
May 21, 2001 3:31 pm
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I use MSVC++ 6.0. I saw a Beta copy of 7.0 at the GDC and it only had a few changes. Not enough to upgrade but enough to possibly wait. I haven't used...
Forest Handford
forestj@...
May 21, 2001 4:49 pm
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Thanks Forest and Blaine, I already have Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 Professional, and I've just downloaded a trial version of Borland C++ Builder 5.0 - you...
Ole Drews Jensen
ojensen@...
May 21, 2001 4:55 pm
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For database applications borland c++ is the best but ms vc++ is best for other type of app(game prog,graf..) ... ...
Ismail Ata Kurt
atakurt@...
May 21, 2001 5:57 pm
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Hi All, This is the age old compiler question, and I've found that in my experience ultimately it doesn't matter. Personally, I prefer MS VC++, but thats...
Oliver Reeves
oliver.reeves@...
May 21, 2001 11:09 pm
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Thanks for your reply Oliver, I know what you mean about prefering the compiler you're used to using, but I have been away from C++ for a while, so I didn't...
Ole Drews Jensen
ojensen@...
May 22, 2001 12:53 pm
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All of the Windows Game Programming I've done, including sprites, I learned from Inside DirectX and Game Programming for Dummies. You can see my specific...
Forest Handford
forestj@...
May 22, 2001 1:51 pm
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Morning All, <boring story> To be honest, I've not done a heck of alot of game programming in my time. I started writing dodgey games in QBasic when i was 13!...
Oliver Reeves
oliver.reeves@...
May 22, 2001 11:26 pm
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Currently we do not have any clients that are looking for candidates for game programming, but if you have a resume ready, I'd be glad to pass it on to our IT...
Ole Drews Jensen
ojensen@...
May 23, 2001 2:40 am
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Hi everyone. I'm new to this group, and completly new to game programming. I just have one question. I'm pretty advanced in C++, so where do I go from here?...
Mitko
mhris@...
May 25, 2001 8:36 pm
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Hi Mitko, It depends on how technologically complicated you want to make your game. Most AAA games are written with VC++ with either DirectX or OpenGL....
Forest Handford
forestj@...
May 25, 2001 8:44 pm
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Ok, this is my last question for now, and I promise I'll stop bothering you guys :P. Would it be even possible for a single person to finish a top-down RTS...
Mitko
mhris@...
May 26, 2001 2:42 am
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Probably not, but that shouldn't stop us from trying. If you want, head over to my website and have a look. I'm putting together a grass roots project and I...
Kevin Milner
tree_tosser@...
May 26, 2001 3:13 pm
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Morning Mitko + Forest + the rest, I agree with Forests points. It depends alot on what you are trying to create and what you want to create it for...
Oliver Reeves
oliver.reeves@...
May 28, 2001 12:17 am
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by the way Forest, can you give me the link to your tutorials?? or are they @ groups.yahoo?? ... From: Forest Handford [mailto:forestj@...] Sent:...
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