I think it's a good start, remember the old school of programming,
first draw on a sheet your idea, then suddivide the program part needed to develop your game, finally make the different section working togeder in the final project.
i'm 30, since 8 i write programs ranging to assembly & basic v1.0 of c64, amos and blizbasic for amiga, qbasic,gamebasic,blizbasic and finally dbpro for ms-dos.
try download the first raven at members.xoom.virgilio.it/ermesjr
is written using dbv1, and there is the source code in *.dba
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