#2D grid based building game

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dull prairie
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I couldn't find a dedicated game development channel so I hope this will be the correct place. I'm a newbie and could use someone helping me into the right direction. The ambition is to learn something new, started with C++ and I would like to make a 2D grid based building game. New I'm wondering does anyone have done this already here? And the other questions would be, what engine to use for something like this? Thanks in advance! ✌️

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viscid sparrow
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#graphics-gamedev 🙂

dull prairie
manic needle
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I've written a nonogram simulator

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kinda halted it when I started writing solvers for it, which is to say the meaningful part of it

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I didn't use an engine for that, there really wasn't a need to

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If you need advice I'd be glad to help cat_up

ocean vessel
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I have made some 2D grid based games before and would be willing to help you out

viscid sparrow
dull prairie
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I might need to clarify a little what kind of game I meant. Would be something like Prison Architect but another genre. I have done some web development and yesterday I realised that I'm spoiled because now I also need to worry about rendering and stuff what normally the browser would do for me. So I thought a engine would take away that pain? If we could do it without a engine that's also fine ofcourse, haven't looked into vanilla C++ rendering yet but I assumed it would be a pain. 😜✌️

ocean vessel
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You are correct about vanilla c++ renderering to be a pain, especially if the majority of your programming experience is in web development. So I would reccomend starting with a game engine instead of making a custom one. However even if you still want to make a custom game engine, starting out with a game engine like unity would provide you with a starting point for learning things that could be used in your own custom engine. So at least for now I would recommend not making your own engine, and instead starting out with something like unity.

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although unity is designed to be worked in with c# not c++, so if that is a deal breaker for you there are still other options. Such as godot, which can be programmed in its own language GDScript, c++, c#, and other options, which recently got a major update to version 4.0.

manic needle
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o yea I was assuming console-based grid games lmao

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tbh yeah don't try and make your own engine, it's only going to be a nightmare

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at least get yourself something that handles window management for you, that would be the bare minimum

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SDL and SFML are decent 2D libraries which come bundled with window management

ocean vessel
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Another option could be raylib, it has a lot of examples and is rather beginner friendly

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dull prairie
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@manic needle @ocean vessel I'm a bit in doubt what to do. I could also use nw.js or electron to utilize chromium and let that handle the rendering like I already am used to. Making a html5 game and use tools mentioned before to distribute. But on the other hand, that might be a game and easy for me to start with but feels a bit not like a real game. But then again trying to build it in C++ is gonna take so much longer.