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Seems like some of you guys have quite some experience in game development. What language would you recommend to somebody starting out? I'm very experienced with PHP and have programmed some complicated stuff in C, too. Some time ago I started learning C++, but to be honest, I didn't really like it (as opposed to C, which I like a lot!), stuff like overloading operators just seemed weird/hackish to me. Reading this thread it seems like a lot of people develop newer games using C#, which I find quite surprising considering C# is slow compared to lower level languages like C/C++ (?) and requires people to install .NET/Mono. I'm using a MacBook and Leopard, so Ruby, Python, C, C++ and C# (using Mono, obviously without XNA) are my most obvious options (comedy Obj-C option). I'd love to learn Ruby or Python, because I could use them outside of game/demo development (for system administration tasks and GUI or web applications), but they seem quite limited for game/demo development (slow, no "professional" frameworks like XNA or DirectX available). I don't plan on developing professional / commercial grade games, 2D and simple 3D should be alright, but then again you never know where you'll end up...
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