How to Get Started Programing Your First Game - Part 2
In Part 1 (put html link here to part one), I talked about the very first step in programming your game once you got done designing your game, which was to design the code. I suggested doing this by going through and identifying all the different states your game will have throughout its' life. This article is about the very beginning of actually writing the code. It will talk about the beginning of the program and touch on three key things: the game loop, the game state, and, for lack …