I want to program games!

[sonicteam10]

I want to program games but I am not quite sure wich system is right for me, I need something xtremely easy, popular, and some help to get me off the ground!

[raindog]

If you just want to make games for a lot of people to play, I'd suggest getting Flash. If you really want to make games for an old console, maybe Batari BASIC for the 2600 is the way to go.

[sonicteam10]

So the atari 2600 is a good way to go?, where can I find this "batari basic"?

Edited June 28, 2007 by sonicteam10

[Dragnerok X]

So the atari 2600 is a good way to go?, where can I find this "batari basic"?

 

http://www.bataribasic.com/

 

Some basic start-up help can be found under the "tutorial" section.

Edited June 28, 2007 by Dragnerok X

[Nukey Shay]

http://bataribasic.com/

 

Hope that wasn't too obvious

 

If you plan on trying it, I suggest that you hit the Basic subforum for questions, etc.

[newcoleco]

I want to program games but I am not quite sure wich system is right for me, I need something xtremely easy, popular, and some help to get me off the ground!

 

If you still don't know for which system to program, I have a complet different suggestion for you... games for the xo laptop. the one laptop per child project is still looking for games. why not becoming one of these programmers who participate to this project.

 

Based on www.laptop.org and a video on youtube, you can program in any languages including Flash, but Noah did a presentation about the library Pygame and I think you should give it a try. It's more friendly than programming SDL in C, but it's still SDL inside but for Python.

 

Who knows, maybe someone here will do a game as famous as minesweeper but for the xo laptop during the next month.