Hey guys, Does anyone have experience with the language Dark Basic? I ran across a book on it at a local book store recently and it piqued my curiosity. I've been an app programmer working in C sharp for a long time. I thought this might be a good "introductory" tool to let me play around with the basics of game coding. Any information would be appreciated.
You'd probably be better off with Torque X since it uses C# as it's language.
My job here is complete!
Seriously though--he's right. If you know C# already, look into Torque X--currently 2D (but that's the best place to start learning game dev), with 3D in development. Even though it's my company's product, I have no guilt in saying that it's an incredibly simple and clean, yet very powerful example of how game engines are structured.
The beta is free for 60 days (binary only, plus toolset, but you can write c# on top of the binary engine), and a source code version will be available for purchase at general release.