Well, I have a demo that I'm really enjoying making! Since reading about the possibility of being included with the newsletter ( and possibly with Dark GDK ) I've been creating my future game one step at a time, and making notes about how to make a tutorial that shows what I'm doing every step of the way.
I would be willing to draw up this tutorial that I've completed, it's about some really basic things to get a 2D ship to fly around with some borrowed graphics from the internet (wikipedia and nasa).
The tutorial would include C tutorial on how to use structures, arrays, dbCOS and dbSIN, the random function, dbSetImageColorKey (and how to use paint that comes with windows for this function), a little more math for velocity vector calculation...
First, the ship would fly around the screen, then we would add some planet images, and the ship would stay in the center of the screen, and the planets would move, not the ship.
I would be willing to draw up this into as complete a tutorial as you would require (within reason, but any suggestions would be awesome, as I want to make it a great learning tool for new ones).
BUT, I do have one favor?
I've been eyeing the DarkStudio DVD. Right now, I can't justify buying it, but if I could acquire it for free?
Well, I'd still be willing to do the demo no matter what, but I just thought that I would ask. I would also still be willing to do the tutorial if it gets included in DarkGDK documentation.
I'm 99 percent done, so should I just upload it here? or do you want to review it privately first?
I would just upload the Visual C project and associated files.
When I come to an agreement with you, I will provide complete documentation for the tutorial, as I love your style in the tutorials provided with Dark GDK, I don't think I'll have a problem mimicking your style of teaching.
thanks again,
jeff