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Thanks I have given it a try anything I can try ?

I don't know how to use it tutorial is confusing ?

I asked that you make a video on how to set it up and use it

Well I haven't coded for any other platforms before. Visual basic .net for windows only

I do make games for pc
Check here
http://www.realityfactory.info/forum/vi … amp;t=5900

But have you used a game engine, or have you done that from scratch? Because it's completely different.

Forget about a game maker for GB, it's bad enough that there is one for the DS... The GB is simply not made for being used like that, it's too slow.

What about the PC games you made? What did you use? Because I suspect that you have only used really simple game engines that hide all complexity of the development process, like that Reality Factory thing.

The videos are bad, to be honest...

If you really want to make games you should start in PC, which is simple. Maybe using SDL or SFML, to use C. Forget about game makers, you've already used them. That way you learn how to code, and you can use a lot of good resources to learn. Then, you can start coding for other platforms and learn how to deal with their special characteristics. What you are trying to do is to learn how to multiply without learning how to add.

Turns out I'm a bit bored, so here it goes:

I started doing a bit of BASIC in my father's Amstrad CPC (which didn't work out well because my father didn't know how to code for it and I didn't understand the manual because I was too young, 9 years old?), a bit of Visual Basic .NET (which was a disaster for someone that had no idea about programming, 11 years old?) and a bit of Game Maker for PC (versions 5 and 6, which is when I really started to learn how programming works, maybe 12 years old). It just took a long time to find something I could work with because I had nobody to point me in the right direction, I didn't even know what to ask.

I started coding in C when I was 14 IIRC, and that's when I actually started to learn how to code. I started on the NDS, and I did mostly NDS for a few years. First, games with terrible source code. Then, games with code that was good enough to show to other people. After that, I messed around for a few months on the Wii but I didn't like libogc (too complicated for me back then) so I ended up in PC when I was around 19, using SDL. Since then I've mostly stuck to the PC, with occasional projects in other platforms like 3DS, or GB. For the last 2 years I've mostly done GBC, but I intend to go back to PC as soon as I can. Also, I only use C for my projects unless there's a really good reason not to (like assembly for the GBC or microcontrolers like PICs). I'm 25 now.

So yeah, I think that the GB is a terrible platform for beginners.

Of course, you don't need to wait for 10 years to do it! I'm just telling you that you'll learn faster if you forget about the GB for a while until you know how to write games for something easier to develop to than the GB. And not with game engines, you have to learn how to actually code, C++ or C should do it. But yeah, if you spend one year doing things in C for the PC, going back to the GB will be a lot better because you'll just have to learn how to deal with the limitations of the GB, not with learning to code.

I mean, if you don't even know how to start to do a platformer game you obviously need to learn how to code before doing anything for the GB.

Would this be a good place to start ?

https://www.lynda.com/C-tutorials/C-Ess … 457-2.html

I am talking to you AntonioND

npzman wrote:

Would you want to do gameboy dev for me

do you want to free lance

do you play crash bandicoot

Antonio ND answer this please

GB Studio might be an option. It has a build in platformer engine and you need no programming background.

Last edited by 0x7f (2022-06-07 03:13:19)