What's the best way to start programming?

[Arkhan]

Most of the comments in my code are vulgar/politically incorrect

[nodtveidt]

I usually use goofy variable names... "int ponyass, buttpower, xposofdoom;"

[Arkhan]

oh, i keep the variable names pretty standard, but sometimes use things like "enemyBeDead" or "rives" instead of lives, and shit.

my comments though, lol.

/* stupid wrapping bullshit */

/* this makes it so the f*ckin dickhead sprite stops being a retard and flying off screen */

my favorite comment recently has gotta be

/* this means the human has been gangraped by aliens and is a mutant bastard now. */

[nodtveidt]

I've completed four tutorials as of now.

Tutorial 1 introduces the basic structure of a HuC program (introduces #include and main()) and shows how to use put_string(), some color bits, and loading a font.
Tutorial 2 introduces variables, put_number(), and basic C-style calculations.
Tutorial 3 introduces sprites, const arrays, nested for() loops, and random().
Tutorial 4 introduces joypad manipulation, basic background stuff, custom functions, basic logic, and pseudoinstructions.

I'm going to work on this more over the next few days. It's high time we had some good HuC tutorials, so I'll do what I can.

[Arkhan]

You should add in some explanation of the "how much data to load" for sprites.

[nodtveidt]

I'm going to do that in tutorial 5.

[nodtveidt]

Tutorial 5 is up and has that important detail.

[Vecanti]

Great tutorials.  This is just what I was looking for.  I even got Bonk sped up and jumping around.  Can't wait for the next one.

http://www.2shared.com/file/SNnZ26tT/bonktest.html

[spenoza]

Gonna have to look at these tutorials and play with HuC once I have some down time from applying for jobs.

[spenoza]

Great tutorials.  This is just what I was looking for.  I even got Bonk sped up and jumping around.  Can't wait for the next one.

http://www.2shared.com/file/SNnZ26tT/bonktest.html

And since you've mentioned Bonk, now I suddenly have new gameplay ideas for a new Bonk game. Crap...

[esteban]

I've converted the two original tutorials I did for the hucdoc project, and just added a third. The tutorials cover both C coding as well as HuC specific stuff. So far, I'm covering the basics... variables and loops mainly on the C side, and basic sprite handling, colors, and text display stuff on the HuC side. And I do it with a lot of corny, stupid attempts at humor to make it less boring.

This is why we love you .

[nodtveidt]

Heh, glad they're decent tutorials so far. I'm going to try to get the next one up within a couple of days... there's a lot of material to cover so it will take some time.

[Vecanti]

I see the new one is up and pretty in depth.  Looks like I'll have to spend some time on it.

I was working on playing around.

Made a 3d rendered demo that is an animated background using NO sprites.

http://vecanti.net/demos/cube.pce

Don't think it is very useful but kind of fun to mess around with.  Could have been way more colors, but just threw it together real fast.  Maybe cool for a Demo Scene kind of effect.

Was trying an idea to do parallax with no sprites.
http://vecanti.net/demos/parallax.pce

Again, messy colors, but kind of funny.  

[Arkhan]

That shits prty neet right thurrrr



throw in some music with Squirrel!  Make a demo!

has to have boom tzzz boom tzzzz drums.

[incrediblehark]

thanks for all of the info! I have been reading up and studying about doing some pce homebrew, wanting to learn 6502 assembly and HuC, but haven't mentioned it until now because I didn't want to be another one of those guys who starts a project and doesn't finish it.

Now that you have, I'll preemptively go ahead and add your name to the list.

NOOOOO! Should've kept my mouth shut.