Programming

[hhyyrylainen]

If you already are familiar with one programming language (and programming in general) you should then learn: C++ and AngelScript. If you don’t know a programming language properly, yet, then you should focus first on learning to program in something like Python or JavaScript before moving to learning C++.

There are some documents describing some aspects of the thrive code here: Thrive/doc at master · Revolutionary-Games/Thrive · GitHub (there are compiling instructions here)

Other than that the only thing you can do is to jump into the thrive code and see how it works: GitHub - Revolutionary-Games/Thrive: The main repository for the development of the evolution game Thrive.

I posted some advice here as well:

Dev team requirements

I’m not the best person to explain this, but I’ll give it a shot… Many people who want to learn programming or are beginners ask questions like “which language should I use?”, “what is the BEST framework?” or “what are the most important algorithms / control structures / patterns I should learn?” And the answer to all those questions is that, it doesn’t matter. You can start with anything and later learn new things as you go on. There are some languages that are easier to work with, which I rec…