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    <p>Personally, here's what <strong>I</strong> would do:</p> <ul> <li>study open source games to see what they do</li> <li>buy a book about game programming (actually, I have <a href="http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/1558514481" rel="nofollow noreferrer">a book about game programming</a> already, but you probably want something more recent than that)</li> <li>pick a toolset/game development library (<a href="http://sourceforge.net/search/?type_of_search=soft&amp;words=game+development" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Sourceforge</a>, <a href="http://code.google.com/query/#q=game%20development" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Google Code</a>)</li> <li>work through the tutorials that come with that library, possibly change to a different library if the API is too weird</li> <li>come up with a requirements document</li> <li>draw up a first pass design ("plan to throw one away"), <a href="http://philip.greenspun.com/software/design-review" rel="nofollow noreferrer">try to have somebody review it</a></li> <li>decide on a test plan</li> <li><a href="http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000245.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">write up a schedule</a>, not because I want to stay on schedule but because I want to break things down into easily-defined tasks</li> <li>write the smallest complete game I could (eg., a Pac Man sprite that I can control inside a window: no maze, ghosts, score, lives, ability to die, etc.)</li> <li>add features to that game until I've implemented the whole thing</li> </ul>
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    1. POIf I wanted to make a Pac-Man Game?
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    1. COThose are some pretty solid ideas. Just one question, what would you define as a "weird" API?
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    2. COBefore I did any of the above I would install a version control system and familiarise myself with its use.
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    3. COPut it on my list, thanks! Any in particular that you can recommend, or rather a "experiment and see for yourself" kinda thing?
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