New here: Point me to the right direction?

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Hey everyone! I’m new as the title has stated…
I have knowledge in Blender, zBrush, Photoshop/gimp, and cisco programming (not much use.)

I don’t have much knowledge in C, Java, etc, but learned the basics way back when I took the classes.

My project: I want to create a virtual world to make learning Japanese more fun. I’ll being moving to Japan in one year for a new job and I absolutely hated learning lists of vocab. I would like to create various scenes a player can walk around in and click objects. When the object is clicked, it brings up a “card” where a player can see the English and Japanese translations. If possible, I would like the players to be able to “collect” the cards. I’m not sure where to start on the programming side of the card database and a save feature.

I have googled for these but I got a whole lot of mess.

Can you link me a tutorial for:

  • “card database”
  • Save feature
  • Also a script for moving a character (found a few but they were a bit advanced for me)

Thanks~
PS. I have all the models, texture, animation, etc covered.
PSS. Kept this somewhat brief and not in depth to bog down the thread.

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http://unity3d.com/learn/live-training/archive got a lot of good stuff where saving data/feature is also available: http://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials/modules/beginner/live-training-archive/persistence-data-saving-loading

About the card database or just database, I dunno. I’m not that far that I need a database yet.

Oh, when you finish the game, gimme a link. I need to remember some kanji and brush up my grammar. :wink:

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Thanks! I don’t plan on doing grammar to be honest, just a fun way to learn thousands of vocab. I will leave it open source though so someone can add to it (and improve graphics cause I’m rushing them)

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Who needs graphics as long as it’s good? Sure it may motivate but it’s the learning it easy that should be the focus. Because if I learn easily from your game then I will keep using it. :wink:

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There is a recent book on this topic Search | Packt Subscription

I have it but haven’t looked very far into it yet.

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Wow this is such a specific book, just what i need! Thanks for the link~
I wish there was some kind of preview, but it being only $20 I think I will just buy it.

Edit: Found some sample chapters.