its been a while, but i'm happy to say i'm back! I think i'm starting to get adapted to school this year (sophomore year!) and i'm starting to find some time around homework and water polo and clubs to start doing some more gm! Anyways, I've started working on a 3d game now (i'm using math from honors pre-calc too :P) and i think i can actually get somewhere with it. I'll put it up as soon as I have some amount of it.
Also, myself and Z3da have started a club at our school for making games with GM!!! its pretty fun, kuz we get to teach these friends of ours how to work with gm and we're getting to see some of their ideas unfold. It's an exciting process, and some of the people are actually starting to get really into it. I think we'll be working on a new space battle strategy game, (inspired by the book Ender's Game). It's funny kuz these people are like talking about how they want "seven different races taht you can choose from! and.." even though they can barely make one ship move. i've been encouraging them to start by making it an action game, where (rather than having human and alien races each with ships to control and such) there will be one main character ship moving with arrow keys in real time and that will allow us to experiment with enemy types.Well, I'll see all of you around!Paul
I once though of creating some sort of programming club or something, it would've been really cool because I've never dealt with GM with another physical person next to me.
Fortunately, I've been able to arrange a bit of a club, but due to the school moving, the club was disbanded. I haven't had the will and time to get it back together.
Capitalization: It's your friend.
yeah i'm glad i did.
does anyone have any ideas as to what sort of methods i should use to teach them things? they're ideas are way too ambitious and they still haven't been picking stuff up the way i want them to.Tell them…
RTFM
Serpex has it. That is, if by 'RTFM' he means: read the fantastically-well-written-and-really-quite-comprehensive-and-easy-to-navigate manual.
Keep pushing the manual thing. And its always a really good idea to explain concepts to people. Functions, expressions, variables, if statements, for loops, all that junk - actually explain it (and don't use a computer - whiteboards are much better). They'll learn much faster!Ender's Game is a really good book too - so are the others in the series.whiteboard= es un bien idea. And i think we should focus on explaining concepts (@Malaika: tu eres inteligente! you have the right ideas here.) rather than just telling them what to do where.
btw @malaika: nice save with the RTFM.yeah i think that's what we should go for next meeting. thanks, malaika that's actually really helpful. and yeah the manual helps a lot.