So I finally decided to make a game... http://www.positivew.eu A blog on the progress and problems of creating my first video game. Thu, 19 Apr 2012 06:24:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Damn Murphy… http://www.positivew.eu/2012/03/03/damn-murphy/ http://www.positivew.eu/2012/03/03/damn-murphy/#comments Sat, 03 Mar 2012 07:51:10 +0000 positivew http://www.positivew.eu/?p=69 Sorry to say, but I haven’t had the time to move forward with the project. I’ve gotten side-tracked by some other projects, including sporditrennid.ee. I have some more work to do right now, but I really have to find a proper job. The money from the projects isn’t that bad, but I need some stability and I want to be able to leave my work issues at work. That’s just not possible, when you work from home and on a free schedule.

When the busy times are over and/or I get a nine-to-five job, I WILL return to this project.

]]> http://www.positivew.eu/2012/03/03/damn-murphy/feed/ 0 So I finally decided to make a game… http://www.positivew.eu/2012/01/05/so-i-finally-decided-to-make-a-game/ http://www.positivew.eu/2012/01/05/so-i-finally-decided-to-make-a-game/#comments Thu, 05 Jan 2012 03:18:57 +0000 positivew http://www.positivew.eu/?p=12 Yes, I finally found the motivation to start work on my own full-featured PC game. I have a basic story idea (which I’m not going to disclose here yet), some ideas on how to realize that and a lot of interest in this subject. Whether or not I actually finish what I started will remain to be seen, but I hope this blog will help me keep my usually quick-fading focus on this project. I will be learning many new techniques as I go along, so please bare with me (that is, if anyone actually reads this) and let me know, if you have any suggestions or comments.

Initial tools I chose to use:

This list is bound to grow as I make progress on the development. I should also mention, that I already have years of programming experience, so C# and .NET are nothing new to me. However, I’ve got very little experience in  3D (only a bit from fooling around with Ogre3D), so I’m going to have to learn to use DirectX on the go.

Yesterday was day 1 of development. As I’ve only started learning the DirectX API, I only managed to create a window with a lovely RGB triforce, rotating clockwise around its center. Nevertheless, I was pretty happy with the effort – for now, DirectX seems easier than I first expected. A big thanks to Riemer Grootjans, whose DirectX Tutorial using C# I am following.

Here’s a nice little screenshot of my first window:

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