Big Al Posted August 2, 2008 Share Posted August 2, 2008 I was thinking of getting back into programming. Id like to create some turn based strategy games since I have a lot of free time. What languages are being used these days for these type of games. I programmed 20 years ago. Also any good places for resources and librarys? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kineas Posted August 2, 2008 Share Posted August 2, 2008 Google the name "the war engine". It's freely available, and might be a good program to start. Virtually any programming language will do unless you want high quality 3D graphics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Al Posted August 2, 2008 Author Share Posted August 2, 2008 I was thinking of Java. CEAW was written in jave I downloaded jdk-6u7-windows-i586-p.exe and netbeans. last language I learned was pascal and assembler. I got a lot of catching up to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kineas Posted August 3, 2008 Share Posted August 3, 2008 Good choice, you will be more productive than in cpp. VASSAL is also written in java. You can use the JOGL library for OpenGL (3D) graphics. Performance of the language and the framework is pretty close to commercial games, and you can find a lot of books on game programming in java. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hubert Cater Posted August 6, 2008 Share Posted August 6, 2008 SC1 and SC2 both use Eiffel... it is a very good programming language and taught at many universities, i.e. where I learned it, due to the clean design and well thought out choices for the language. It is similar to Java in many respects, both are Object Oriented based languages although Eiffel is more of a pure OOB language than Java and why it is a preferred language for many academics when it comes to teaching Computer Science design and programming principles. The benefit of Java is that it has a lot of users and a lot of available media libraries where Eiffel does not (I had to write my own classes)... also Java is free where Eiffel is arguably a much more expensive option. Good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kineas Posted August 6, 2008 Share Posted August 6, 2008 What a surprise, I didn't know there were commercial grade products written in Eiffel... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwolf Posted August 6, 2008 Share Posted August 6, 2008 Intercal. No programming language is complete unless it replaces GOTO with COMEFROM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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