Title: DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY!
Product review: This product is not what the illustration and labeling on the box suggests. Game programming is a difficult multidisciplinary expertise that integrates storytelling, artwork, modeling, programming and strategy. Each skill must be explained separately and in detail. Then these skills must be learned and integrated to give you your expertise.This product does not do this. It is little more than a crippled Visual C++ 6.0 compiler, a couple of third party game development tools and a book full of game developers' anecdotes. It's a joke.Worse, the C++ documentation is in PDF(hard on the eyes) and VC++ is already difficult for a newbie. The two third party tools are poorly documented, at best.Wanna learn the basics of game programming? I suggest Java Game Programming for Dummies. Ready to learn Windows game progamming technology? Consider *Windows Game Programming for Dummies*. But don't throw your hard earned dineros in this landfill.
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