Hi Ken,
Not sure what you mean by vb .net express looked a mass of confusion . Are
you referring to the IDE? If so, it takes a bit of time to get used to, but
once you do, you will really appreciate the power and abilities it offers
you.
As for programming any halfway serious audio game, I've looked at a bit of
java code, and I'd say visual basic is more or less on level ground with it
in terms of difficulty to program, which in my opinion isn't that hard.
When I started out in 2005 looking to get into it, I looked long and hard
at several options. I thought about C#, but I can do the exact same things
without having to warp my brain around there weird syntax and use of odd
symbols. Before you C coders out there get bent out of shape, I want you to
know I don't care what language you use, same as I don't care what kind of
computer you use, for me whatever gets the job done with minimal fuss is
what I am going to use, and for me that was vb .net express. I'm not putting
down C# or any other language, and if I were doing graphics intensive stuff,
I probably would have gone with C# or something similar.
I've done about all you can imagine an audio game could use, from joystick
inputs, to full featured online play with virtually no lag. All this was
done with visual basic .net.
The single exception to this is force feedback, which I was not able to
put into rail racer, which chapped my stick, and perhaps is fixed by now.
I am about to release my second and third commercial games in the last two
years, all three of which were built on visual basic, and with virtually no
programming experience 4 years ago to speak of.
I can't give a higher reccomendation than that for anyone looking to
program audio games for the blind.
It has taken a lot of time and tenacity, but as the old saying goes,
nothing worth doing comes easy.
I encourage you to take another look at vb .net, lord knows we need all
the good accessible developers out there we can get, and in my humble
opinion I think java is going to leave you lacking in the end.
Later,
Che
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken" <[email protected]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 1:54 AM
Subject: [Audyssey] dark room and programming for Wiimotes
I see that Darkroom is programmed in Java and that the code is open source.
How hard is programming in Java, and does anyone know about Eclipse, and
whether or not the libraries and plug-ins are accessible? If so, it would
give me a good foundation for programming a Wii-based game as VB6 isn't
going to support bluetooth stacks--to my knowlege anyway. I looked at
VB.net express and it was a maze of confusion from the get-go, so I'm
looking again at new programming languages to learn, and I thought that
this might be a good start as there is code relating to the use of the
Wiimotes.
Ken Downey
DTI
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