Hello everyone! I'm new here and I just need help with getting started on a game. What are all the things that I need? What should I do first? Do I need to write all the code in a plain text editor, or do you have a special application that I need to use? If I'm missing anything please fill me in. Just help me get started.

Btw, I've tried to run Maped.exe and I get an error message saying, "Please set registry key HKLM\Software\Microsoft\.NETFramework\InstallRoot to point to the .NET Framework install location"
What do I need to do here?

If anyone can help, I would most definitely appreciate it.
Thanks in advance!:)

Also, yes, you write vc in a text editor. We here all recommend [Textpad]. it's got all the good juju of a mediumweight text editor, and there's a [v3 syntax file] already made to give syntax highlighting for vc... quite useful!

You can also set it up to run your project via a keystroke (my development version of sully is ctrl-1 ;) and other such neat things.

The only slight drawback is that find is f5, not CTRL-F, and replace is F8 and not CTRL-R. Unconventional, but not insurmountable.

Edit: I really, really should finish the FAQ... ^_^

Quote:Originally posted by Dilated Junkee

What software do u recommend I do all the graphics in?

either Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro, which ever you are comfortable with (and which ever you can aford.) If you never used any of those programs before, I would recommend Paint shop pro as it has a more simplistic design.

If you don't want to spend money, you can get GIMP (I never used it before though) or Windows paint!

The only thing you have to follow, is purple (RGB=255,0,255) is transparent, and all your frames for that character must have consistent size (ex. every frame is 32x64), with a one-pixel padding to seperate each frame. There's probably other stuff, but that's all I can think of.

I would say that RGB(0,255,255) (I like to call it "death-cyan") is equally as useless as death-magenta. I would also like to point out that they both make fairly good transparent colours (just as VERGE uses magenta) because there's no other reason for a sane person to use the colours ever.

My battle system uses cyan. It is good for glowy stuff. It's also a decent sky colour, though I prefer something with a bit more red and a bit less green. But then, magenta figures very prominently in my Windows colour scheme, so I can't entirely be trusted.

Jesus H. Christ on a moped, Gayo. If there's ever a "what does your desktop look like" thread in Castle Heck, for the love of God don't assault us with your personal abomination.

Also, can I recommend snagging ALL of the games and kit in the Contest directory of files in the V3 section of the files archive: they're the easiest examples of code to understand (with a few exceptions). Also grab the packin demo (Sully Chronicles) and Interference's Textbox Library (since I made it and don't see anything wrong with the odd bit of gratuitous plugging).

Quote:Originally posted by Interference22

Jesus H. Christ on a moped, Gayo. If there's ever a "what does your desktop look like" thread in Castle Heck, for the love of God don't assault us with your personal abomination.

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