Um I'm new here and I'm trying to learn how to work V3 by using the Sully Cronicles.

So I just thought I'd introduce myself.

Hey there. Start simple and work your way up. Start with the tutorials and then download a few of the games in the V3 files archive and start picking them apart. Most come with the code. Competition entries made in a short space of time are usually the best to start with.

An excellent newbie post, welcome to the community!

Basil:
The ghettoer the bettoer ... that is beautiful. I intend to live my life by it.
(basil)


Beautiful indeed. I actually read it from the notes of an NES dev programmer and Carnegie Mellon professor named Bob Rost. Googling for his site results in education and amusement.

Sounds like you'd be perfect for v1. If you're up for learning some programming you could give v3 a go, but either are good. Just promise me you'll make and release small stuff before taking on something too ambitious.

Okaayyyy...
I'm somewhat a newbie at VERGE, but I'm working on a non-ghetto project. But as for some really simple games you can do, you can make:

a tic-tac-toe game. Preferably one impossible to beat.
EDIT: Wait, it seems Zachron has already made one. But I suggest you make an impossible one, so yeah...

a really simple text-based game. Especially if you're an English major or talented in that area.

VERGE paint. That would be strange... and that would probably be more advanced than the above two.

a game where you take some parts off of Sully and rename some stuff and change things around a bit.

VERGE chess. Actually, this would probably be categorized in 'advanced', but I like chess... so please make it?

Well, programming books are, in my opinion, a waste of time, unless you actually get to go and program. Programming is an art learned best through apprenticeship or experience, I believe. I started with VERGE3, simply because it is the latest engine. I would say, start with VERGE3, but I never used the other VERGE engines, so I don't know.

If you are a veteran, and you would like to correct me, go ahead.

For very early work, it's always cool to just make some code that displays some neat text, a background, and maybe some cool rotating picture. Play some music to test the sound code. Just in general goof around. Yup.

Quote:Originally posted by Mike7

Hey guys. About getting games to pick apart.

Is there any simple games that you could recommend I have a gander through?

I recommend you try the competitions directory of the files archive: all the stuff in there was made over the course of a few days so tends to never be anything awe-inspiringly complex (ok, except in the case of Zaratustra).

Try games like 'Journey to Black Mountain,' 'Leo the Merman,' 'Phoenix Flame,' 'Geas,' 'Milk,' 'Duskbane' and 'Parallel 7.'

You hate Java. Well, you're in luck! VERGE's scripting language is based on C. It may seem a little daunting at first if you've never coded in it before but it's fairly nifty once you get the hang of it.