[Other] C++ Tile editor From scratch

[tansuperman34]

Recently my friend naturally got older and graduated from high school, he is about to attend the University of Pennsylvania to play football and major in Computer engineering. Being a close friend of his not only on the football field but in the classroom, I started to get involved in what he was interested in. After seeing him create a simple tetris game in C++, it inspired me to do more. I had always been a closet fan of pokemon hacks and I have always wanted to make one. I know this is ambitious but I would like to create a pokemon fan game completely from scratch using C++. First I decided to try to make a tile editor and I was wondering where I could begin. (I'm not very good at coding at all).

 

[smeargler]

What do you mean a pokemon fan game? because you can't recode the ROMs in C++. Okay, I am proficient in C not C++ but they're similar.

(I'm not very good at coding at all)

You can't not be good at coding and hope to make a tile editor. Where you would start is getting the basics down by doing some tutorials. You can't just think "I want to build a algorithm like PageRank" and then go do it. After the tutorials, you have to learn about File I/O and about parsing your ROM file so your editor can understand it. It's a lot of hard work and I haven't even come close to naming it all.