New Howto: Getting Started with Games development

[Mickeysofine1972]

Hey Guys!

Its been a while but now the Ubuntu Games Developer Resources Wiki is Back!

Over the next few months we are going to show how you can get into games development and distribute the games you make!

Starting with a simple 'hello world' tutorial, we are going to easy you gently into developing C++ based games that you will then be able distribute using the amazing new system MirthKit, which has been designed & developed by the forums own CurvedInfinity to help open source games developers to get their games out to the audiences who want them most!, (thats right Ubuntu Community, you asked for more games! Your gonna get them!).

So if you want to get into games or you have already got ideas for a good game why not head over to the wiki and start getting to grips with the future of open source development on ubuntu/linux!

http://ubuntu-gamedev.wikispaces.com/MirthKit+Hello+World+Tutorial

Mike

[curvedinfinity]

It looks like you put up another tutorial too! Thanks for helping the cause Mickey. :)

[pmasiar]

Another (and much simpler) way to start with game development is Python + http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygame . I don't want to go into language wars, just to let readers know that C++ is not the only (or even the "best" for some definition of best) way to develop games.

[curvedinfinity]

Hehe, the tutorial isn't actually for C++, its for MirthKit -- my own project. :)

I'll let other people speak for how it compares, but I'm at least trying to make it a simpler option than any other.

[Mickeysofine1972]

Actually, after doing some research into the MirthKit language I'm getting the feel of some language like PHP or ActionScript. Both are very simple in comparison to C++

Also, can we keep this thread on topic pmasiar this about the howto and MirthKit questions not referrals to other languages that aren't relevant.

Mike

[Mickeysofine1972]

It looks like you put up another tutorial too! Thanks for helping the cause Mickey. :)

No problem :)

I plan to do a few more before I'm done too, if nobody wins that $500 soon I will probably go for it myself lol, it will help pay for my new car :lolflag:

Mike

[Dev'olution]

It's great to see sites like these... helping out those just starting in programming and Ubuntu =D

[Mickeysofine1972]

we aim to please .... as does your avatar :)

Mike

[LMelior]

No problem :)

I plan to do a few more before I'm done too, if nobody wins that $500 soon I will probably go for it myself lol, it will help pay for my new car :lolflag:

Mike

From the contest page (http://www.mirthkit.com/?p=92) it sounds like you don't get the $500 yourself, you just choose an open source project who gets it. Unless if you make your game open source, you are eligible? Or I guess if you have your own open source project, you can pick your own. :)

MirthKit looks very interesting, I will have to share this with a few people I know. Who knows, maybe I'll give it a shot if I can find some time - I'm pretty good with Lua and okay with C++, so Squirrel looks fun.

[Mickeysofine1972]

From the contest page (http://www.mirthkit.com/?p=92) it sounds like you don't get the $500 yourself, you just choose an open source project who gets it. Unless if you make your game open source, you are eligible? Or I guess if you have your own open source project, you can pick your own. :)

MirthKit looks very interesting, I will have to share this with a few people I know. Who knows, maybe I'll give it a shot if I can find some time - I'm pretty good with Lua and okay with C++, so Squirrel looks fun.

Kewl I'm glad your inspired!

Although, no-one says you cant nominate the next installment of your open source mirthkit game :)

With that you could take it even further and get a designer to make you some professional gfx or a musician to make tunes! or even just fund you in making more levels!

Mike

[curvedinfinity]

Although, no-one says you cant nominate the next installment of your open source mirthkit game :)


rofl

To give credit where it is deserved, MirthKit is heavily inspired by Processing (http://processing.org/). Processing is pretty bad ***, and MK just builds on it in a lot of ways. -- I think the biggest improvement is that Processing is java-based, so in essence, its dependency list is gigantic. MK is 2 mb with all of the libraries included or 500 kb as a deb. Not to mention, MK has the arcade, which is basically the first unified game launcher (like steam) for Linux.