[Rickster0]

Hi i was wondering if it was possible to make a game maker in Visual Studio 2008

*have you ever used Rpg maker xp ?
thats basicly what i want to learn how to do.

there are three main things i want to know.

1)How to make an area to alow a graphic to be draged from a pallete onto
the work area

2)To make something to build the game (Like a testplay button)


3)Have a undo and redo function?

is this possible or is it really hard?

[gabehabe]

Anything's possible.

But it takes a lot of work. Basically, a game maker is a code generator~ you have to be pretty damn good with making games to be able to generate everything you need

[Recoil]

You want to look up game engines. It is probably easier to just use an existing engine to make games though because it is A LOT of work. I am working on mine, and it will take forever since I do not have any assistance other than people here...but I have nothing but time, and I am really wanting to learn to do it myself.

If you are wanting to stick with doing it on your own like me, sourceforge.net has some pre-existing engines available, and a simple search on google for something like "C++, C#, Java Game Engines", a lot of which are open sourced so you can tweak it however you want to. As far as using VS2K8 for making your own engine, C# and XNA or DirectX9 will help...XNAtutorial.com is a good start.

Also search for:
Elysium source
HGE (haalf's game engine)

But I must warn you, I have spent over 50+ hours just researching on the net, not to mention the countless hours of skimming over books so I can figure out which language I want to go with. Read topics on this game forum even if the topic does not seem to be what you are looking for.

Good luck!

[dineeshd]

Check out the below forum. You may get some help...

http://gmc.yoyogames.com/?showforum=28

[Rickster0]

ok thanks i understand that this is going to take a long time

but i have a crew of about 5-10 people helping.
im not stupid enought to do it on my own.

[gabehabe]

Well then, it all depends on the level and determination of you and your team

[Rickster0]

Yh....We are all very determined but we need to know how to do these 3 things

1)How to make an area to alow a graphic to be draged from a pallete onto
the work area

2)To make something to build the game (Like a testplay button)


3)Have a undo and redo function?

i want to do it in a VB windows form in visual studio 2008
can anyone help us out here

[Recoil]

Rickster0, on 14 Jul, 2008 - 05:01 AM, said:

ok thanks i understand that this is going to take a long time

but i have a crew of about 5-10 people helping.
im not stupid enought to do it on my own.

I started out with 10 people that wanted to help...a lot of great ideas, but that's all they were was ideas. Everyone wants to make a game, and everyone has the next best thing to WoW. But no one wants to start small, by making very small games and functions just to see how they work.

Having a crew is great though, as long as you are not the only one wanting to learn how to program the engine. You might want to weed out ppl that aren't really interrested in the beginning to keep from having empty promises for thier portion. But since I have started out on my own, I have gotten way more accomplished because I am NOT trying to make the next WoW.

And just a note, it's not stupid to do it on your own, it goes down to planning, determination and time. It is easier with more ppl involved, but everyone has to be on the same train, which often leads to conflicts within the group. You might all have the same idea, but certain aspects of the design process, or graphics/sounds might cause problems.

[Recoil]

Rickster0, on 14 Jul, 2008 - 05:46 AM, said:

Yh....We are all very determined but we need to know how to do these 3 things

1)How to make an area to alow a graphic to be draged from a pallete onto
the work area

2)To make something to build the game (Like a testplay button)


3)Have a undo and redo function?

i want to do it in a VB windows form in visual studio 2008
can anyone help us out here

1) It's called a map editor...Google Mappy.

2) It is called a compiler...Google game engines.

3) Undo/redo for what?

You are wanting information on pretty much the entire system...kinda way around "how do me and my peeps make a game". Doing this in Visual Studio 2008 is possible with C# and XNA, also C++ and DirectX...those are the most used for making a game engine.

Which language in VS2K8 does your group have experience in programming with?

[Rickster0]

Ok Ty

i only want it to be a 2d game engine nothing fancy.

[gabehabe]

You need to decide which language the code will be generated in, too...

Most games use C/C++ or Java, so a game maker would take a knowledge of a few languages. (very few games are made in VB.NET, and even fewer are successful... I can't even name one.)

But then again, .NET stuff might be your best bet for making the actual interface for the program.

A friend of mine made a tile generator, engine, etc all in Java, and it works pretty damn well

[Rickster0]

Recoil, on 14 Jul, 2008 - 05:55 AM, said:

Which language in VS2K8 does your group have experience in programming with?

We are quite exprienced in Visual Basic.

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But then again, .NET stuff might be your best bet for making the actual interface for the program.

Yh we will be using Visual basic for the interface.

or well will just use C# for all of it. not quite sure yet.

Oh and the undo redo button will be for when a user drags and drops a graphic on to the work area,then deletes it by accident then uses the undo button to bring back the graphic, or uses redo to delte it again.

[Rickster0]

Ok people i have published my project so far

this is basicly how it is going to look like, Beta testing only so many functions do not work since i only madew it in 2 hours.

Attached File(s)

•  RPG_Creator_BETA_.zip (183.93K)
  Number of downloads: 122

[Recoil]

Rickster0, on 16 Jul, 2008 - 02:57 AM, said:

Ok people i have published my project so far

this is basicly how it is going to look like, Beta testing only so many functions do not work since i only madew it in 2 hours.

Why not just post a screenshot since most parts are non-functioning...some people may not want to use the installer.

[Ameel]

Not working. Your published files has some errors, namely that it cannot download application which is missing some files.

Log is as follows:

PLATFORM VERSION INFO
	Windows 			: 6.0.6001.65536 (Win32NT)
	Common Language Runtime 	: 2.0.50727.1434
	System.Deployment.dll 		: 2.0.50727.1434 (REDBITS.050727-1400)
	mscorwks.dll 			: 2.0.50727.1434 (REDBITS.050727-1400)
	dfdll.dll 			: 2.0.50727.1434 (REDBITS.050727-1400)
	dfshim.dll 			: 2.0.50727.1434 (REDBITS.050727-1400)

SOURCES
	Deployment url			: file:///C:/Users/Ameel/Desktop/RPG_Creator_BETA_/RPG%20Creator.application

ERROR SUMMARY
	Below is a summary of the errors, details of these errors are listed later in the log.
	* Activation of C:\Users\Ameel\Desktop\RPG_Creator_BETA_\RPG Creator.application resulted in exception. Following failure messages were detected:
		+ Downloading file:///C:/Users/Ameel/Desktop/RPG_Creator_BETA_/RPG Creator.application did not succeed.
		+ Could not find file 'C:\Users\Ameel\Desktop\RPG_Creator_BETA_\RPG Creator.application'.
		+ Could not find file 'C:\Users\Ameel\Desktop\RPG_Creator_BETA_\RPG Creator.application'.
		+ Could not find file 'C:\Users\Ameel\Desktop\RPG_Creator_BETA_\RPG Creator.application'.

COMPONENT STORE TRANSACTION FAILURE SUMMARY
	No transaction error was detected.

WARNINGS
	There were no warnings during this operation.

OPERATION PROGRESS STATUS
	* [7/16/2008 10:22:14 PM] : Activation of C:\Users\Ameel\Desktop\RPG_Creator_BETA_\RPG Creator.application has started.

ERROR DETAILS
	Following errors were detected during this operation.
	* [7/16/2008 10:22:14 PM] System.Deployment.Application.DeploymentDownloadException (Unknown subtype)
		- Downloading file:///C:/Users/Ameel/Desktop/RPG_Creator_BETA_/RPG Creator.application did not succeed.
		- Source: System.Deployment
		- Stack trace:
			at System.Deployment.Application.SystemNetDownloader.DownloadSingleFile(DownloadQueueItem next)
			at System.Deployment.Application.SystemNetDownloader.DownloadAllFiles()
			at System.Deployment.Application.FileDownloader.Download(SubscriptionState subState)
			at System.Deployment.Application.DownloadManager.DownloadManifestAsRawFile(Uri& sourceUri, String targetPath, IDownloadNotification notification, DownloadOptions options, ServerInformation& serverInformation)
			at System.Deployment.Application.DownloadManager.DownloadDeploymentManifestDirectBypass(SubscriptionStore subStore, Uri& sourceUri, TempFile& tempFile, SubscriptionState& subState, IDownloadNotification notification, DownloadOptions options, ServerInformation& serverInformation)
			at System.Deployment.Application.DownloadManager.DownloadDeploymentManifestBypass(SubscriptionStore subStore, Uri& sourceUri, TempFile& tempFile, SubscriptionState& subState, IDownloadNotification notification, DownloadOptions options)
			at System.Deployment.Application.ApplicationActivator.PerformDeploymentActivation(Uri activationUri, Boolean isShortcut, String textualSubId, String deploymentProviderUrlFromExtension)
			at System.Deployment.Application.ApplicationActivator.ActivateDeploymentWorker(Object state)
		--- Inner Exception ---
		System.Net.WebException
		- Could not find file 'C:\Users\Ameel\Desktop\RPG_Creator_BETA_\RPG Creator.application'.
		- Source: System
		- Stack trace:
			at System.Net.FileWebRequest.EndGetResponse(IAsyncResult asyncResult)
			at System.Net.FileWebRequest.GetResponse()
			at System.Deployment.Application.SystemNetDownloader.DownloadSingleFile(DownloadQueueItem next)
		--- Inner Exception ---
		System.Net.WebException
		- Could not find file 'C:\Users\Ameel\Desktop\RPG_Creator_BETA_\RPG Creator.application'.
		- Source: System
		- Stack trace:
			at System.Net.FileWebResponse..ctor(FileWebRequest request, Uri uri, FileAccess access, Boolean asyncHint)
			at System.Net.FileWebRequest.GetResponseCallback(Object state)
		--- Inner Exception ---
		System.IO.FileNotFoundException
		- Could not find file 'C:\Users\Ameel\Desktop\RPG_Creator_BETA_\RPG Creator.application'.
		- Source: mscorlib
		- Stack trace:
			at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath)
			at System.IO.FileStream.Init(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, Int32 rights, Boolean useRights, FileShare share, Int32 bufferSize, FileOptions options, SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES secAttrs, String msgPath, Boolean bFromProxy)
			at System.IO.FileStream..ctor(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, FileShare share, Int32 bufferSize, FileOptions options, String msgPath, Boolean bFromProxy)
			at System.IO.FileStream..ctor(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, FileShare share, Int32 bufferSize, Boolean useAsync)
			at System.Net.FileWebStream..ctor(FileWebRequest request, String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, FileShare sharing, Int32 length, Boolean async)
			at System.Net.FileWebResponse..ctor(FileWebRequest request, Uri uri, FileAccess access, Boolean asyncHint)

COMPONENT STORE TRANSACTION DETAILS
	No transaction information is available.

Oh my god. I just realised you just uploaded the setup files and NONE of all the other files...

You must include ALL the files in your "publish" folder in the upload, otherwise we can't run the app....