   Tutorial on Game Development
  Does anyone know of a good online tutorial on game development? If so, please let me know.Thanks   
  It's doubtful you'll find anything that is anywhere near to what (i assume) you have in your mind.Perhaps elaborate a bit more on what you want, especially what platforms, libraries, languages...etc, and what your skill level is.   ;  I think the tutorials for games in net are really poor, low quality stuff. You can find lots about implementation specific things like graphics and such stuff, but not about games.I think most of these things are such you should find out yourself anyway. I don't think the best and obvious way has been yet invented to do games.Maybe you should try doing stuff with blizbasic, TGF or such first. Trying not to learn much about what you are doing. Then read about it and merge this information you got together to get the idea about doing games anywhere.   ;  use the search textbox located at the top right of the site.;  Did you just want to be able to make a game, or did you want to learn to program games?If you just want to make gamesthen you don't neccesarily need to program at all.  There are packages out there that will allow you to create games without programming or with some simpler scripting for advanced functionality.  Depending on the sort of games you were hoping to make a couple you could potentially look into include Adventure Game Studio (good for creating oldschool adventure games) and Game Maker (more general than suited to any specific game type).  I'll leave it to you to Google for others if you're interested in this option but don't think either of those is suitable, there are plenty of options out there.If you want to make games that are a bit more impressivethen you could possibly look into modding existing games.  This can be excellent practice at developing games and is a great way to create some portfolio pieces, but is a lot easier than developing a full product by yourself.  Many modern games can be modded, and there are communities online for just about any game that can be modded.  I don't know what sort of games you're interested in or what games you might own, so if you think this is a possible option I'll leave it up to you to Google for resources on any games you own to see what sort of help and tools are available.If you want to learn to programyou'll need to choose a programming language to learn.  Blitz Basic or Dark Basic could be good options, although I've not tried either myself.  They're aimed more towards beginners, are designed specifically with game development in mind, and I believe have communities which can help you out with getting started.Other than that, some popular choices for programming languages include:- Python.  You can get everything you need to get started for free from the Python Website, and the free ebooks How To Think Like A Computer Scientist and Dive Into Python are excellent resources.- C#.  You can get Microsoft's Visual C# 2005 Express Edition for free, and they also provide some resources for getting started including a video series.- C++.  I've left this one till last because I don't particularly recommend it; plenty of people have difficulty learning C++ where they would otherwise find it easier learning a different programming language.  No list of ways to create games would be complete without giving it a mention though.  You can get Microsoft's Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition for free, and some decent tutorials can be found at www.cprogramming.com.  Most people find that a book helps out a lot if they want to try C++ though, and I'd recommend Beginning C++ Game Programming as a good choice.Sorry I can't just point you in the direction of a single resource, but there's just too many different ways of doing things.  If you ask about something more specific than the entire field of game development I'm sure we'll be able to help you out with additional resources.Hope that helps. [smile]   ;  Kazgoroth, you post that same stuff every time someone needs this sort of help.  Its great advice, but I hope you have that saved somewhere for copy and paste!  You must get tired of typing that!(To the OP) Anyway, online tutorials aren't usually that great, so I'd recommend getting a book or two, which you can find in Kazgoroth's post.   ;Quote:Original post by bschneidbut I hope you have that saved somewhere for copy and paste!Nope, I retype it each time so I can customise it slightly depending on the OP.   ;  you sexy masochist you   