Most games I've seen are made with C++ and some sort of graphics Library.
I'm going to give general stuff involving it
-If the computer your using is not yours, all this stuff may slow it down unless its a super computer.
--I would make sure you can before you do anything.
2d graphics Library (SDL)
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Tutorial of how to get it set up-
Download3d graphics Library (OpenGL)
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A bunch of tutorials that I didn't look at-
More Tutorials I didn't look at-
downloadProgramming (C++)
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Microsoft Visual C++ Express-
Bloodshed C++ (What I have)
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Eclipse (I've heard good things about this one)
Online Development (mySQL or other)
-I'm not sure how online works exactly except for in concept
-We are probably going to have to go into it a bit more to understand if we need something like SQ
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Download-
tutorialsI think the most important part of it all though is concept.
If anyone has ever played starcraft or warcraft 3, you can make pretty cool things with minimal programming experience.
Once we got the concepts down, I think thats when it will be easier to make the code.