The Beginning

Ben Temple-Heald · 2013-01-05T01:24:47

Hello Everyone, I'm going to start this with a bit about me. I am a relatively new programmer, and have been in the working world for the past 2 years now. My main programming language is C#. I have also dabbled in VB6 in the office, to support some of our legacy applications. For the past 3 years I have been "mentoring" a team of students at a sixth form college in robotics, which is primarily coded in C++, also with this I have taught myself some Java, as one of the students wanted to learn it and apply it to robotics. My question is, like many before me have asked, where should I begin to look at game developing? My first stop on the road was to look at http://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2011/08/04/I-want-to-be-a-game-developer.aspx which is about a year out of date, which seems to be a long time in the development circles. A brief on the article says to avoid C++, is this a wise choice for starting out? From that article I also started to look at XNA, however from doing a quick google it appears that Microsoft are not supporting this for windows 8, not that this is a big factor in my choices. As a MSDN holder, I have access to the full MS Development tools anyway. My next stop would have to be Java, now I don't know if this is a misconception but I believe that it follows the same syntax and structure as C#, and seems to be widely support on the GDK side of things. Correct? I'm going to preemptively try and answer a question I think I am going to get asked, and that is "What type of game do you want to make?" In the long run my aim is to put together a RPG type game, with a few possible starting "Classes", walk around some open spaces, go into some dungeons, kill some bosses, win some loot, save a princess. You know that sort of thing. I am well aware, that this is a long time goal, and I guess my first attempt would be something along the lines of "snake" or a simple "old school" game. Thanks for reading this and any help would be much appreciated. Ben

For Beginners

Started by Darkwind January 02, 2013 10:38 PM

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January 05, 2013 01:24 AM

Remember, there are thousands of no cost or little cost art assets advertised on the web. I have on occasion even seen terrain levels supplied with a map editor at no cost and open source, including for XNA.

Personal life and your private thoughts always effect your career. Research is the intellectual backbone of game development and the first order. Version Control is crucial for full management of applications and software. The better the workflow pipeline, then the greater the potential output for a quality game. Completing projects is the last but finest order.

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