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I got a free version of Visual C# 2005 Express Edition Beta 2, so hopefully I can make some progress in making the game.


I have no idea how to make a game but I thought I might try. Is it very hard?
There is a prize at school to make some kind of Japanese learning game. I thought that I could try and make a game that you have to find the different hiragana and katakana characters. See the picture below to see what it would be like. Hopefully I would be able to make it look better if I can even make it.



Edit: added some more to what the game would look like.

You're going to need to learn a programming language to write it in first. I suggest C++, but there are many to choose from.

C++, C, VB, VB.NET, C#, DELPHI, COBOL, ASM, FORTRAN Are all the programming languages I know of. (Note the 'of' )

That doesn't sound easy

Is there some sort of [trial] program which would make it a bit easier?

I would want there to be a time limit for you to find the character. Each  character would have a link. Each time you clicked the right character, you would get a point. There would be something like 5 wrong guesses and if you get one more wrong, the game would end.

I think that this is going to be a little bit harder than I thought.

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Originally posted by zach
That doesn't sound easy

Is there some sort of [trial] program which would make it a bit easier?

I would want there to be a time limit for you to find the character. Each  character would have a link. Each time you clicked the right character, you would get a point. There would be something like 5 wrong guesses and if you get one more wrong, the game would end.

I think that this is going to be a little bit harder than I thought.

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Its going to be extremly harder then you thought. Unimaginably harder. Im serious. Whip out one of those dusty 500 page C++ books and read it to the end. Then read some docs on the windows graphical interface and how to use it in cpp to make dialogs and such, and your set.

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Originally posted by Shawnz
going to be extremly harder then you thought. Unimaginably harder. Im serious. Whip out one of those dusty 500 page C++ books and read it to the end. Then read some docs on the windows graphical interface and how to use it in cpp to make dialogs and such, and your set.

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My chance of winning $1000 has gone...

... or you could take the easy way out and use VB.

exactly what i was going to say segosa......

The easiest way to make this is in flash and then compile it to an exe with a program like Zinc.

You would have to make a movieclip with all the chinese characters and some actions to change the character and to change a textfield on mouse-over.
It shouldn't be to hard in flash...

or you could use javascript , and html.....which would be the easist way then you just use addEventListener's(non IE i think IE uses attachEvent) on each picture for the  'click' event then just update a div with "correct" and chaneg the background to green or something.

* -dt- thinks it would be simple

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Originally posted by Shawnz
I suggest C++

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Not to someone who sounds like they don't have any real programming experience.

The best bet is either VB or Flash, although it's possible with HTML and JavaScript (where you don't need addEventListener(), just use the onClick attribute).

Edit: The only problem with HTML and JavaScript is, if you embed the script, people can view the source and cheat.