Is VB good for game development?

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Is VB good for game development? Or is C# or some other language better?
I'm a beginner programmer and would like to get into game development. I
can't find any decent tutorials, so links would be very helpful.

Thanks

May 6 '07 #1

rowe_newsgroups

On May 6, 3:25 pm, pcgamer <pcga...@discussions.microsoft.comwrote:

Is VB good for game development? Or is C# or some other language better?
I'm a beginner programmer and would like to get into game development. I
can't find any decent tutorials, so links would be very helpful.

Thanks

What type of game development? C++ is considered to be the only
language for "serious" games, but that is just an opinion. If you want
to avoid C++, then I would probably recommend going with C# just so
you could use Microsoft XNA studio, as I don't believe they have
launched a VB version of XNA yet.

Also, here's a VB game programming site I found by using google - I
didn't look through the articles, but it seems to be what you are
asking for.

http://vbprogramming.8k.com/tutorials/main.htm

Thanks,

Seth Rowe

May 6 '07 #2

Cor Ligthert [MVP]

PCGamer,

In my opinion you should not use managed code, so that is either VB.Net or
C#

Cor

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Is VB good for game development? Or is C# or some other language better?
I'm a beginner programmer and would like to get into game development. I
can't find any decent tutorials, so links would be very helpful.

Thanks

May 7 '07 #3

Michel Posseth [MCP]

Well ... i would go for darkbasic

it is cheap , it is easy to learn , it has a hughe gaming comunity thus
sample code etc etc etc etc

and if you ever decide to become a busines developer you already now the
Basic syntaxis for Visual Basic

check it out !

http://darkbasic.thegamecreators.com/

Michel Posseth

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Is VB good for game development? Or is C# or some other language better?
I'm a beginner programmer and would like to get into game development. I
can't find any decent tutorials, so links would be very helpful.

Thanks

May 7 '07 #4