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I want to be able to make games. I'm great at coming up with every little detail that will be in the game but I just can't get down the concept of programming. When I see any programing language, it looks like Chinese to me. And even in Game Maker I look at the coding, and it's only slightly better but still another language to me.
What should I do to get down the concept without having to read the entire manual. Like is there free online classes, because my school doesn't offer programing. And to make things worse, my Dad's a programer but he does coding for websites and other stuff, but not games. I'm willing to read a wall of text just not in a manual. Like how about some websites?
If you have anything for me for C++ or Game Maker, please respond?
Del:
depending on the program you want to use, even if you read manuals or not, you'll need to download some game that makes use of whatever features you want to do in your own game and look at the code slow and careful trying to understand the commands and language, then you can try changing certain values or variables and test how did those changes affect the game
I learned the most basic stuff using the map editor from StarCraft, then I did what I just told you using the MKF engine, since that's the only thing I was gonna be using anyway, I've learned a lot by looking at how the objects are coded in there using GML, yet I'm still far from being a good coder, I don't think I can make my own games from scratch (luckily I'm interested in making any games besides helping finish MKF lol) but yeah this is something that takes a lot of time and dedication