Well if you are looking for professional game dev then you are going to need to learn c++. That is for games like COD and Halo. If you want to start off with something easier and you want to make like arcade games for xbox then you are going to need to know c# and then learn how XNA works. Once you know that you can sell your games on the marketplace and hopefully make a bit of cash.

RDCAx wrote Well if you are looking for professional game dev then you are going to need to learn c++. That is for games like COD and Halo. If you want to start off with something easier and you want to make like arcade games for xbox then you are going to need to know c# and then learn how XNA works. Once you know that you can sell your games on the marketplace and hopefully make a bit of cash.

im just curious but, i know nothing about c++, but how hard would it be to make a fps like cod?

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RDCAx wrote Well if you are looking for professional game dev then you are going to need to learn c++. That is for games like COD and Halo. If you want to start off with something easier and you want to make like arcade games for xbox then you are going to need to know c# and then learn how XNA works. Once you know that you can sell your games on the marketplace and hopefully make a bit of cash.

im just curious but, i know nothing about c++, but how hard would it be to make a fps like cod?

Very hard to be honest. The people that make COD spend close to a year in developing it. And they have college skill in coding. Also their is a team, so chances of you making one without going to college is pretty much zero. Unless you use something like unreal dev kit.

See you can't really just skip to FPS shooters and stuff. You need to learn the basics of sprites and simple stuff first. Then you learn Animation, and after you've mastered the basics 3D graphics and camera movements. But like RDCAx said C++ is the best language to code Games in. But to make a high quality game like COD would take months if not years. My suggestion is to follow online tutorials of the basics then move on to XNA books and magazine tutorials. But making another game like cod would take you years by yourself to make.

I would suggest learning Java first to have a basic understanding of how languages work. after you learn Java, which is a relatively simple language you should be able to learn the basics of C++ simply. I like Java, and you can do many things with Java relatively easily, that would take much longer using a language C++.

John_US wrote See you can't really just skip to FPS shooters and stuff. You need to learn the basics of sprites and simple stuff first. Then you learn Animation, and after you've mastered the basics 3D graphics and camera movements. But like RDCAx said C++ is the best language to code Games in. But to make a high quality game like COD would take months if not years. My suggestion is to follow online tutorials of the basics then move on to XNA books and magazine tutorials. But making another game like cod would take you years by yourself to make.

that makes sense. i have messed around with xna 4.0 quite a bit but i cant build something from scratch up in xna like i can in C# windows forms.