XBL sweet basketball game

[MystikShadows]

Words of wisdom from Stylin :-).

Maybe this could be a start to your design document which might give you a better understanding of the game project. Like Stylin said, don't be discouraged, the idea of you project is actually quite good. But it's important to start at the beginning.

I have written a 6 part professional development series of articles that take a typical project and goes down the development process. This might give you a few clues of what exactly you are getting yourself into.

COMMERCIAL AND PROFESSIONAL APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT

Part One - The Project Begins
http://www.adaworld.com/textworld/articl...ment1.html

Part Two - The Details Behind The Problem
http://www.adaworld.com/textworld/articl...ment2.html

Part Three - The Conceptualization Process
http://www.adaworld.com/textworld/articl...ment3.html

Part Four - From Conceptualization To Application
http://www.adaworld.com/textworld/articl...ment4.html

Part Five - Testing And Debugging
http://www.adaworld.com/textworld/articl...ment5.html

Part Six - Installation and Integration
http://www.adaworld.com/textworld/articl...ment6.html

Sure it's a bit of reading, but I think it will help you understand what exactly is going on. I'd like to see a project like yours realized and playable. But it's not quite as simple as creating models and throwing them in a loop. you'd need to take each object of your game (ball, player, scoreboard, etc etc) and detail each of them what they can do, how they can be described, how they interact with each other team members, opposite team members, how the other objects interact with your main player, etc etc...alot of detail to think about :-). then when you program these,
you'll have to think about even more things than this. It might be a good idea to sit down with a word processor and and define exactly what your game is about.

I wish you luck as well and I hope this helped a bit.