Beating a Dead Donkey: Which Language II

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I'm about to start making a 2d freeware RPG and I wondered which language
would best suit my needs. As an arts grad, my strengths really lie on the
creative side but I have a basic knowledge of Pascal and C (when I say basic,
I mean I can do all the if/while/storing local variables type stuff, but when
it comes to messing with memory locations and parsing strings I get a bit
lost). I guess the best option for me would be to utilise the windows GUI
instead of having to build one from scratch. Is that possible with, say, C#?
 
Captain Tangent said:
I'm about to start making a 2d freeware RPG and I wondered which language
would best suit my needs. As an arts grad, my strengths really lie on the
creative side but I have a basic knowledge of Pascal and C (when I say
basic,
I mean I can do all the if/while/storing local variables type stuff, but
when
it comes to messing with memory locations and parsing strings I get a bit
lost). I guess the best option for me would be to utilise the windows GUI
instead of having to build one from scratch. Is that possible with, say,
C#?
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Hi Tangent.

If you come from structured languages like Pascal and C (and perhaps asm?)
you got knowledge that will speed up your learning-curve.

But you got some learning to do.

0. Learn OOP (Object-Oriented-Programming).
1. Embrace OO-principles, but know when to walk off the path. Don't become a
OO-Purist.
2. The FCL (Framework Class Library) do have plenty of stuff you can re-use.
And enhance. Use it!
3. For games, it is sometimes necessary to drop the managed code and data
and go unsafe with pointers.
4. C# would be an excellent language for going unsafe.With your skill in C,
unsafe C# would be confortable for you. Pointer-operations have the same
syntax.

However, if your game want to be fast and heavy on graphics I suggest you
skip .NET and do it in pure msC++.
..NET is still too slow for doing stuff like that. But there will be a time
when the JITter can do better compiling than the best of asm-coders.

Happy Coding
- Michael S
 
Hi Tangent.
If you come from structured languages like Pascal and C (and perhaps asm?)
you got knowledge that will speed up your learning-curve.

But you got some learning to do.

0. Learn OOP (Object-Oriented-Programming).
1. Embrace OO-principles, but know when to walk off the path. Don't become a
OO-Purist.
2. The FCL (Framework Class Library) do have plenty of stuff you can re-use.
And enhance. Use it!
3. For games, it is sometimes necessary to drop the managed code and data
and go unsafe with pointers.
4. C# would be an excellent language for going unsafe.With your skill in C,
unsafe C# would be confortable for you. Pointer-operations have the same
syntax.

However, if your game want to be fast and heavy on graphics I suggest you
skip .NET and do it in pure msC++.
..NET is still too slow for doing stuff like that. But there will be a time
when the JITter can do better compiling than the best of asm-coders.

Happy Coding
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Much by way of helpfulness there, mucho thanks to you and clintonG -- I
shall store your advice and make sure I follow it. Also, if you ever see a
freeware RPG called The Simulacrum around in a couple of years time, please
take the time to download it, I guarantee it'll be worth the effort :).

Peter
 
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