I have searched the forum and found that i must not begin with a large game for start(well i didn't really thought of making star craft or anything XD) i wanted to make a simple game like a tic-tac-toe or a tetris or something like that...

Us i read i saw i needed to know very well a programming language like Java or c++ or c#

1st Does it help that i know C prety well (i am far from perfect of course).

2ond don't i have to learn a language like SQL ,PHP,HTML etc??

3rd Can you suggest any good books for learning C++ ,game programming etc.

4th any tips are wellcome

Thanks a lot

I'll just say what everyone else is about to, then some.

In games, C is the same as C++ except for one thing-- each character has its own bucket of data called a class. Shapes and blits will usually be inside structs.

As of today I haven't seen any C++ game programming book that was more helpful than a set of googled tutorials. I think I have all of them except any DirectX books. They've been overall terrible. The OpenGL books are good for the very basic and then the rest of it is supplying complicated advance code samples. It's not that they aren't chock-full of good things. It's just not realistic for someone starting out to learn from a book written by authors who've forgotten what it was like to be new. People who make tutorials are more attuned to beginners' demands because many of them are students themselves.

You don't have to learn any of those languages in 2nd. They're more like add-ons to a game. A database and registration page for distribution and patch downloads for updates to your game.

If I were you I would go look for the easiest possible things to try and build up from there. Like downloading Allegro devpak and install it into Dev-C then look at a simple step-by-step word-for-word tutorial on how to make a png image display in a window on the screen. From just that you've gotten the basic idea of bigger 2D libraries like SDL. The second step is to find out how to move the image around with the arrow keys on your keyboard. In my opinion, that's the perfect start.

http://www.loomsoft.net/resources/alltut/alltut_index.htm

This post has been edited by Kanvus: 30 Jun, 2009 - 01:34 PM

If you would like to learn C++ I would recommend a book that teaches you console programming, not Windows programming. Windows programming can take a little getting used to as it is event driven while console programming is procedural. What I mean is in a console program you control the action. In a Windows program you respond to the user's requests. If you have a good understand of C I don't think picking up C++ will be very hard. C++ is basically a superset of C, it adds in object-oriented features. The new features include inheritance and data encapsulation.

ty for the fast reply and for the tips

You only need HTML + friends if you want to make a web game.

If you know C pretty well you should be able to pick up something like SDL and get started right away.