Game Developer

[hounter90]

I am a game developer and am very interested in making games for Rockbox to build my game portfolio. What programs could i use to develop games for rockbox and are there any places for tutorials on how to develop games for the iPod. Any help would be much appreciated.

[cool_walking_]

Rockbox is just written in (mostly) C.  There is a plugin architecture that makes it pretty easy to get started.  You need to set up a development environment, and then you should read HowtoWritePlugins and look at the source of the existing plugins.

[hounter90]

ok, we talking C++ or C#. They are similar languages, but also very different. Could i use something like Bloodshed Dev C++ for it?

[Llorean]

C. Not C++ or C#.

[cool_walking_]

You can use whatever text editor you want (assuming it can handle Unix line ends), but Bloodshed isn't going to work to compile*.  You need one of the development environments referenced in SimpleGuideToCompiling.

*I haven't really used Bloodshed.  Maybe you can set up the project so that you can compile from within Bloodshed, but it won't work out of the box.

[hounter90]

ok, now in all the IDE's i've used There is a list of what kind of application you want to use it for, like a console application(just like MS DOS). What do I use?

[cool_walking_]

You're confused.  Follow the steps in SimpleGuideToCompiling.  You don't need to set up a project in Dev C++, because the only thing you would be using Dev C++ for is it's text editor (if you wish to use it, that is - in my opinion there are many better text editors available).