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As I'm geting MS Visual Studio 2003 soon, does anyone have any hints & tips
about making games for the DS that aren't covered in any textbooks?

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"Lorfarius" <asdkeithNOSPAM@PLEASEhotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Aquila" <Aquila@Aquila.net> wrote in message
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>> As I'm geting MS Visual Studio 2003 soon, does anyone have any hints &
>> tips about making games for the DS that aren't covered in any textbooks?
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> What programming languages are you capable of using?
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Whatever comes with VS 2003. Visual Basic.net & C#.net for sure.

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On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 Aquila <Aquila@Aquila.net> wrote:
> As I'm geting MS Visual Studio 2003 soon, does anyone have any hints & tips
> about making games for the DS that aren't covered in any textbooks?

you're better off checking out a DS dev forum (or homebrew forum) since
they'd prolly be better informed.

As the other poster mentioned though, C++ tends to be the staple
language for game development. At least it WAS if not anymore.
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>>>> "Aquila" <Aquila@Aquila.net> wrote in message
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>>>>> As I'm geting MS Visual Studio 2003 soon, does anyone have any hints &
>>>>> tips about making games for the DS that aren't covered in any
>>>>> textbooks?
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>>>> What programming languages are you capable of using?
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>>> Whatever comes with VS 2003. Visual Basic.net & C#.net for sure.
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>> So long as your proficient with C++ you should be fine
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> I think that's on VS2003 as well.
>

Itll be visual C++. Bloody hard language but once you know it you can pretty
much programme for whatever you want.