Hi, Justin:-

Consider the Unity platform. There are many other possible choices:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_game_engines

You might be interested in what a leading community college teaches budding=
 video game developers:
http://www.sheridancollege.ca/programs-and-courses/full-time-programs/progr=
ams-a-z-index/game-development-advanced-programming.aspx#prog-info-courses

Best regards,
--sp

On Jun 18, 2013, at 5:29 AM, Justin Richards <justin.richards@gmail.com> wr=
ote:

> It is a tall order but my son (12) has asked me several times to teach hi=
m
> how to write games.  This seems like it would be so much easier on a
> commodore 64 (I enjoyed moving sprites around the screen with a joystick)
> but as that is long gone I thought i would ask the list what would be a
> good way to start.
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> I am (was) familiar with C, assembler and perl.  I enjoy PIC assembly but=
 I
> dont think that would be appropriate for a intro into programming games.
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> Years ago I attempted Windows programming in C and assembler was just too
> much for me.  A case of not able to see the tree for the forest.
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> Perhaps starting with perl and moving alpha-numerics around the screen to
> start with.
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> Any thoughts.
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> Justin


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