Quote Originally Posted by Ion Zone View Post
By the way, just curious, but is it very difficult to have a program set up so that you have a 2D game reading map, monster, save, item information, etc, from external files? (I'm just thinking it would be an awful lot easier to make, say, a top-down RPG, if you had a separate editor program.)
What you're referring to may be called a game engine. If you write your own, it may be a very time consuming operation and for many well established video game companies it is a closely guarded secret. But maybe there are some that can be open for public: check some here. I'm not sure though, I never looked into it.


PS. You need to start small though. Maybe create a simple console application and make a numbers game. Or a question-answer type of game using text without any complex graphics.