can someone help me im just wondering what type of software i would need if i wanted to create a game like championship manager as im wanting to make a boxing management game and im totally new at this but i have time to learn so please help. much thanks rich.

http://www.gamedev.net/reference/start_here/ This is the starter section at gamedev.

The first thing you will want to do is choos a programming language. This will probably be C++. After you have learned that you could have a look at an API for the graphics. That will be OpenGL or DirectX.

But that''s a long way to go Look at the link I gave you and have a search for a free compiler.. then start learning C++

thanks man il check it all out.

Hi!

I had the same problem! Ahhh, I think you have to download the championship manager game creation kit.
Then it goes whole for alone!

Bastl

quote: Original post by Anonymous Poster
I had the same problem! Ahhh, I think you have to download the championship manager game creation kit.
Then it goes whole for alone!

Oh... shut up if you have nothing to say.

Perhaps somebody should put a large, blinking link on the gamedev frontpage that says "BEGINNERS GO HERE"? nothing personal against you balboa, but such a post appears every five minutes...
(This suggestion isn't meant to be a joke)

EDIT: Another idea... perhaps there could be a sticky thread in the beginner's forum, saying to go to "start here" first?

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[edited by - randomZ on December 19, 2002 12:39:27 PM]

Theres always going to be newbies wanting to start here.. they are always going to ask questions that those that forgot what it was like find stupid. Hows about those of you that don''t like newbie questions.... DON''T ANSWER THEM... leave the answers to those that are willing to help.. and concentrate on the forums you have now grown used to. What you want this sites moderators to do? Take up half of the links columns at the top with a sign specially for newbies? Its easy to ignore newbie questions.. just as easy as it is to answer them with some sort of civility.

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quote: Original post by hammerstein_02
Theres always going to be newbies wanting to start here.. they are always going to ask questions that those that forgot what it was like find stupid. Hows about those of you that don''t like newbie questions.... DON''T ANSWER THEM... leave the answers to those that are willing to help.. and concentrate on the forums you have now grown used to. What you want this sites moderators to do? Take up half of the links columns at the top with a sign specially for newbies? Its easy to ignore newbie questions.. just as easy as it is to answer them with some sort of civility.

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amen, amen.

quote: Original post by hammerstein_02
Theres always going to be newbies wanting to start here.. they are always going to ask questions that those that forgot what it was like find stupid. Hows about those of you that don''t like newbie questions.... DON''T ANSWER THEM... leave the answers to those that are willing to help.. and concentrate on the forums you have now grown used to.

I think you''re right. And I don''t even want to question a newbie''s right to ask this question. And I answer newbie questions myself, too. (This one had already been answered, tho.) But this is a quite frequently asked question, which doesn''t have to be answered by a person each time. A website saying "Calm down, learn the basics, pick your language" etc. would suffice, which is basically what the "For Beginners" section does. (Maybe it could use a short intro text? Just an idea.) But as it seems, it isn''t discovered by some, which I can understand, because - who looks at the navigation bar there when he(she) is new at the forum? I didn''t

quote: What you want this sites moderators to do? Take up half of the links columns at the top with a sign specially for newbies?

As I said: What about a sticky thread in the Beginner''s forum? Would be technically possible, wouldn''t it?
Because I think it is more likely someone sees a thread in the forum than a tiny link at the top.

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