hi, I''m a newbie to game-programming, although I already made a tetris & a breakout clone, I never finished them completly. Now I remember a year ago when I first tried DX how difficult it was for a newbie to get things going, so thats why I''m thinking of creating really newbie tutorials to get newbies on their way, I also try to give some good tips in my tutorials and give out alot of links to other good tutorials, so you all don''t have to search the whole web to find some info. If I get alot of (good) response I''ll be willing to put more effort in it and maybe create even a simple game with all my tutorials. So let me all know what you think of my first tutorial : http://users.pandora.be/da_cobra/tutorials/main.html

Issues:

IIRC, FAILED and SUCCEEDED are only for COM. FAILED returns true if its argument is negative and SUCCEEDED returns true if the argument is positive. Win32 error code 87 means "The parameter is incorrect", positive, yet still bad.

You really did not explain the code at all. You basically said "Copy and paste, comment, and don''t use globals". Talk about what each piece of the code is doing.

Smaller things

Run your tutorial through a spelling and grammer checker. It will take care of things like "Forth : I use as less globals as possible" which should be rewritten "Fourth : I use as few globals as possible"


The hackers must have gotten into the system through the hyperlink!!

Invader''s Realm

thanx for the tips, will update the tutorial as quickly as possible

and yes I didn''t explain each piece of code because there are other tutorials on the web who do a better job at that, I just try to help newbies geting on their way, give some links to good tutorials...