The Game Programming from Scratch

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The Game Programming from Scratch

I'm Professional in VB6,VB.Net 2003,VB 2005 and i want to start in game programming but i don't know from to start study.

Some friends tell me to study DirectX, but i found it hard to self study and there is no books in vb and DirectX (Almost), Anybody have any idea to start in it in simple way




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  • flyonthewall

    I personally love to dig through sources of some of the free engines available and from a design perspective it helps alot. Also it's a good idea to download games with sources and dig through them.

    Here are some engines that you can take a look at.
    You can also google.com for some games + source code.

    Have a great time developing games. We all are ;)


  • BruceJohnson

    You may find this book to be useful. Yes, I wrote it, so it's a bit of a shameless plug, but it's the only book that's focused on VB and Managed DirectX.

  • jporto

    thanks guys for this useful information.

  • TeamWild

    Here are some Managed DirectX tutorials that have been ported to VB.NET: http://www.drunkenhyena.com/cgi-bin/dx9_net.pl

    And here is an Italian website with tons of more advanced MDX samples in VB.NET: http://www.robydx.135.it It may take some digging to find what you're looking for, but according to the admin, the samples are written and documented in English.



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