So I'm interested in entering the world of video game development.....

Hello, I am Gelatart. I will be honest and say the skills I can offer are very limited. However, I am intensely interested in video games. Ever since I was 6 (I am 18) I've spent countless hours with games, researching games, discussing games, and conceptualizing games. I may not have a large portfolio, but I am incredibly interested, and have created a few extremely simple games. I have very basic knowledge in Ruby and Java, and I briefly tried working with Flash. I of course plan to expand my skills, knowledge, and experience, but I ask to help you out in any way I can. I believe that by involving myself in a project with others, I can begin to learn more effectively about video game development than I could by myself, due to the increased accountability, and the experience, knowledge, skills, and advice of other participants. If that means all I do is test, that's fine. I just want to find some way to start learning what it takes and the process games go through, and your project looked very interesting.

TL: DR - I checked out your project because it looked interesting and I want to enter the world of video game development. I may not be able to do much, but I am interested and motivated. I will help you out if I can and hope to learn much if you let me get involved. Thank you.

Welcome aboard Gelatart!

It's great to see you are so devoted, that really goes a long way on such a project. Learning programming, modelling, animation, science (currently Biology and Chemistry are needed), mathematics, or general helping out with coordination will all help out a lot (However, programming is at the moment the biggest demand). Of course you wouldn't need to learn all of those, but learning a few will be great for our project and yourself.

I did take a course in both Biology and Chemistry, but I am in High School and have forgotten some of it. I think my best option would be learning programming. What language are you working with? What are some resources I can use to start learning how to program in that language? Please let me know.

We are using c++.

It is really similar to Java, so you shouldn't have too much of a problem adapting your knowledge from java.

I dont know of any good place to go to start learning it, but for me googling whatever i need usually works.

If you want to see at the currento code, you can go to the GitHub repo. You can find tutorials on how to get the environement for compiling, all the dependencies and performing the actual compiling here. Please note that setting up the environement is written twice, look at both and choose one of them (I recomend you the second one, the one written by me, as it requires less compiling and is specifically written for this project).

This is the one I use.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tyVhn0FWWB4

I bet you are comenting from a mobile phone. Here it is the link for normal youtube format:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyVhn0FWWB4

Oh, yup, thanks. I was wondering where the "m" came from.

Thanks, guys. I'll check those out.

What platform are you guys working with? (Windows, Mac, Linux, ....)

Windows and Linux.

Don't double post. Instead use the edit option to change your previous posts.

For now, only windows, but porting to linux should be easy (just setting up the environement, which is even easier than on windows and recompiling). Mac will be harder, but we will hopefully suport it later.

And please, dont multipost. Just edit your previous post.

Oops, Nick answered before me. Just to clarify, Mac suport is intended on the future, but is not a priority at all.

Daniferrito wrote:

We are using c++.

It is really similar to Java

Normally I skim over things like this, but I disagree. I seriously, seriously, disagree.

If anything, java is similar to c/c++ in that it has c syntax. Managed memory changes just about everything.

Ok, sorry. I was meaning about syntax. Internally there are many differencies. Like that or the fact that it is compiled, then interpreted on a virtual machine.

What IDE do you guys use?

Any will do, but for now NetBeans is the only one that we have a guide on how to set it up. Eclipse would work as well, but i can't make it build it, and i have to build it from a comand line console. And acording to Seregon, Microsoft Visual C++ will probably not work. Or you can use a plain text editor, instead of an IDE.