Building Games?Alittle help please?

[Atari Master]

I want to buld my own games.Not hack and recreate things.I herd a language called C++ is the best way to go.Were can I lern this language?I'm trying to create a Pong/Phoenix type game that should be pretty kewl.It wont exactly be an easy game you know?Can somone help me.What do I need?

[Osmeroid]

If you want to create new games for the 2600, I have found plenty of stuff for newbie programmers at this site.

http://www.neonghost.com/the-dig/index.html

 

This covers a lot of the basics.

 

Hope this helps.

[+Cafeman]

If you want to make a game that plays on the Atari 2600, 5200, Intellivision, Colecovision, Vectrex, or any of the classic 80's systems, you need to use Assembly Language.

 

C++ is good for modern systems and the PC.

 

Good luck!

[Atari Master]

I wanted to make my own type of games but I guess I could make a 2600 game.That woulr probably be kewl.

[Atari Master]

Ok, so now i'm interested in programing 2600 games.But what do I need.I figured if it was coding or somthing I would need.

 

A Program to write the games.

A Program to create images.

A Program to create sound.

A Compiler.

 

This is what most programing requires.Can someone recomend me some hings.And were can I get a beginners guide to this.

[Thomas Jentzsch]

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Originally posted by Atari Master:

Can someone recomend me some hings.And were can I get a beginners guide to this.

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Follow the link above (The Dig), there you'll find DASM (an assembler, not a compiler). Then you need a good editor (I recommend Textpad). You don't need graphic or sound editors for the 2600, because the hardware is so limited, that you can do it by hand.

 

The exists no beginner guide for the 2600, but the very first thing you have to do, is learn 650x assembler. Perhaps you can find books for this outdated CPU.

 

[ 03-01-2002: Message edited by: Thomas Jentzsch ]

[Nukey Shay]

You might try Gerry Kitchen's Game Maker...you can make 2600esque games fairly quickly with that (Basic-type language)...without spending weeks or months writing assembly code that may or may not work.

[trevthefatty]

i've looked around a bit and am having trouble finding this game maker you speak of. All I find is sites about some of the games that Mr kitchen programmed. Where can I find it?

[Albert]

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Originally posted by trevthefatty:

i've looked around a bit and am having trouble finding this game maker you speak of. All I find is sites about some of the games that Mr kitchen programmed. Where can I find it?

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There doesn't seem to be very much information about this floating around on the net. I did find this, however:

 

The Artistic Science Of Game Design

 

That article talks about Garry Kitchen's GameMaker for the Commodore 64, but I also saw reference to an Amiga version. I found the Commodore 64 files here:

 

C64 Unlimited - Games: Garry Kitchen's GameMaker

 

..Al