Donnie

ok i am making a game in visual basic and want to know how if i were wanting to save a users game how i would do that and then store there name in a listbox so when they click on there name there game will load

Ooble

Save all the game data to a file. When you start the program up, load all the data from the file. Easy.

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Donnie

what kind of file do you mean i am to save it in?

Donnie

or could you give me the code

Donnie

oh and not to be a pest but can i make my game then have add ins for the game like that would add a new topic or something like that?

Ooble

It's your game. Do what you like with it.

You're writing a game, so I'm going to assume you know how to handle files. Open up your save file, and write everything you need to to it - the number of lives you have, how many points you've got, whereabouts you are, etc. If you want to have multiple saved games, you can use multiple files.

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gumbyman31

Any type of file. I've played games that store all of the data to a simple .INI file. Of course this made cheating easy, but it worked.

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Donnie

im really dissapointed to tell you this but (i dont know how to handle files)

kruptof

Donnie.....Donnie.......Donnie................dude..don't run before you can walk (or something like that)..........learn the basic first.............is like some trying to build a house without any foundations..................if you go head first into a langauge without knowing the basics............it is totaly going to put you off the whole language............happened to me.............so i though i just warn you

lectricpharaoh

Okay, things you need to know to write a game include general program logic and basic I/O (you need input from the user, after all). You also need to learn how to validate that input, so that your program doesn't puke on its shoes when the user does something 'wrong' (which users do quite often).

Other things that you will likely need to learn are:

• File handling- otherwise, you cannot save/load games, high scores, etc, or dynamically load graphics at runtime- in other words, all the graphics would need to be embedded in the .EXE, which is generally an inflexible approach)
• Graphics- depending on the type of game; text adventures, for example, don't need graphics, but the vast majority of games today make heavy use of them. Also, how you handle graphics varies from system to system, and even on one system, there are various ways to do it.
• Sound- most games also rely heavily on digital sound effects and music. Like graphics programming, sound programming is highly dependant on the target platform.
• Data structures- things like linked lists, binary search trees, and the like. These are important in most games programming, just as they are in regular applications or systems programming, but in games, there is an emphasis on choosing the fastest algorithms, so even if you don't learn to write your own, you at least need to learn how to pick the most appropriate ones to use.

So, as you can see, there's lots to learn, especially for games programming. Besides, as to your original question, maybe if you offered a little more information (what kind of game, etc), it would help.

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