Thread: C++ for sprite based game?

Alright, so I just found out about this thing called XNA Game Studio. It's used to make community games for the Xbox. It comes with a beginners tutorial and such, but I think it would help to learn some C++ or C# to help make the game I want.

Where is a good place to learn C++ or C# to make a sprite based side scrolling game? What kind of books should I look out for?

I want something specifically for making games. Something that has easy to follow beginner tutorials.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyVhn...eature=channel

Start there and follow every video. By the end of it you will be a Wizz.
Too bad there's like 60+ videos all around 9 minutes long.

http://nehe.gamedev.net/lesson.asp?index=01

Originally Posted by slayer

Where is a good place to learn C++ or C# to make a sprite based side scrolling game?

C++ & C# are two very different languages
It grates when you bung them together like that

I mean, C/C++ I can understand (as the two are 80% the same syntax, and while different languages both will probably compile equivalent code down to the same assembly

but C# isn't even meant to produce binaries
it's meant to produce byte-code

Just thought I'd mention it

Originally Posted by Ynot

but C# isn't even meant to produce binaries
it's meant to produce byte-code

C# produces binaries, I've written many a dll for C# programs running our servers.

Originally Posted by ninja9578

C# produces binaries, I've written many a dll for C# programs running our servers.

To quote wikipedia
"By design, C# is the programming language that most directly reflects the underlying Common Language Infrastructure (CLI). Most of its intrinsic types correspond to value-types implemented by the CLI framework. However, the language specification does not state the code generation requirements of the compiler: that is, it does not state that a C# compiler must target a Common Language Runtime, or generate Common Intermediate Language (CIL), or generate any other specific format. Theoretically, a C# compiler could generate machine code like traditional compilers of C++ or FORTRAN. In practice, all existing compiler implementations target CIL."

Originally Posted by ninja9578

C# produces binaries, I've written many a dll for C# programs running our servers.

Didn't say "couldn't"
said "not meant to"

the C# compiler for Linux can compile to binary,
but if you want to do that, why the hell are you using C#?
better to use a more mature language, with better optimized compilers, greater library of code available, and wider platform support

So I should be using C++? Or should I do the OpenGL like Ninja posted?

OpenGL is a library written in C.

Use allegro: http://www.allegro.cc

It has built-in functions for loading images, making GUIs, et al.