I just got a book on programming role playing games in DirectX, 847 pages packed with information on how to do everything like playing sounds, weapons inventory's etc, also gives information on how to make it multiplayer compatible and other things, from what i have seen you make the game through the book, learning how everything is done and how you should implement different things before bringing it together into a small playable game then you can make your own from what you have learnt, trust me there's a lot to learn!

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