advices for game programmer

Belias

Hello

someone asked me to give him some advices so that he know what kind of game he must make.

I gave him these ones ordered like this

Basic

- 3D Labyrinth
- Pong
- 3D Side-Scroller

do you have suggestions for basic, mediocre, and advanced levels?

Ben Apuna

How do I make games? A Path to Game Development

EDIT:

The Best Software to Create a Video Game thread might be worth a checking out.

If your friend is just beginning here's a good post to read, along with this post.

BadgerBaiter

The game we did contained map generation - we were hoping to eventually get random map generation in there - movement, ballistics and collision detection. It was more of a get a question right and you can shoot, get it wrong and you can't.
Is he doing it in C++?