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| 13 Feb 2015 01:01 PM
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I'm 14 and a freshman. What are some good books that can teach me how to make a good 2D platformer game.
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| 13 Feb 2015 01:03 PM
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the book series "learning to code with ruby" would help you learn ruby, which is a language that many popular game development engines use (godot, unreal engine, unity, etc)
but if you don't wanna learn programming yet you might wanna start looking into free engines to help you develop games
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| 13 Feb 2015 01:04 PM
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like i mentioned earlier in my post godot is an open source 2D game engine written in C++
unity is written in c#
unreal engine is written in c++, but they also have a version written in javascript
and then there's the python engine panda3d, the java engine libgdx, the html5 engine impactjs...
there's quite a few for every language you could think of
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| 13 Feb 2015 01:07 PM
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What is the name of some good books that can teach me how to make a good platformer? I'm not interested in making games in code. I want to make one in drag and drop.
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| 13 Feb 2015 01:08 PM
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you probably won't find anything on that topic because it doesn't really exist
all of those game engines i listed use something similar to a code-based drag-and-drop editor where you can actually do it without typing any text
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| 13 Feb 2015 01:09 PM
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How would you say this is done then?
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| 13 Feb 2015 01:11 PM
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it uses code to create the objects you see onscreen when you open the drag-and-drop editor
but instead of typing it out you just click things and click on a spot where you want your object to go, and it generates code for it
so for example if you wanted to make a brick, you'd click "brick" in the menu and then drag it onto the stage and then drag it around until you get it where you want it
and then it generates code like "brick = Brick.new(Vector2(100, 300), (size here));"
and then if you wanted to move it, you could click it and drag it around and it updates the location in the code
i'm not exactly sure how these editors work since i've never used them before but they're supposed to be really easy to learn for beginners
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| 13 Feb 2015 01:13 PM
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Alright thanks. I'll check some of those engines out.
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| 13 Feb 2015 03:17 PM
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yeah they're pretty cool and i might actually start making a game with one soon
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| 14 Feb 2015 04:52 AM
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Which one do you recommend?
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