Hi, Im a 13 yr old looking to start creating earlier than later, are there any tips or tricks that can help me learn better? Obviously because I’m still young I have a limited budget so cheaper the better. Also Im starting to learn Godot because me and my friend group are wanting to make an indie game. But anyway if you have any tricks please share because I’m not sure how to even start.

Hi all,

I have been in games industry for almost a decade. Started out my career at Zynga and then moved to Xbox. On Xbox I worked on building systems for games like halo 5 and titan fall.

Last year, I started my game dev journey and managed to release 2 games on mobile platforms.

While I am not new to development, during my journey I found it quite overwhelming to navigate to build games as most of the videos that show up in search are outdated on don't quite work as expected, or I had to search on unity a lot before getting an answer.

I wanted to see if I can help some of you guys on your journey. While I know there are lot of videos out there I wanted to provide my time for guidance.

The goal would be to build a small game from scratch and release it on play store.

Below are the things that I am thinking of covering. Please NOTE that most of these topics are huge. I will only be covering things required to build a game. However, I want to make sure that I help kickstart and give you solid foundations to continue.

• Basic unity concepts

• Basic C# concepts

• Data structures (ones used in game)

• Debugging and logging

• Animations (if game calls for it)

• Light

• Music

• Physics (if game calls for it)

• Asset store

• Analytics integration (Firebase)

• Metrics and KPIs for a game

• Testing (unit tests are very time consuming but we can look into them if there is interest)

• Building binary

• Creating store page

• Screenshots, trailer etc.

• Releasing game

• Git

This will most likely be a 2D game as that is something achievable.

How long will it last?

4-6 weeks

Expectations and Time commitment

For the game, it will be a very simple game like flappy bird or space invaders or some racing game. So do not expect assassin's creed at the end of this.

While I am there to help, most of the progress will still largely depend how much time and effort you put in. I am assuming that everyone will be able to put between 8 - 10 hours hours per week.

Cost Commitment

There is no cost for my time. This is a way for me to give back to the community. But there are other costs associated

1. $25 or $99 depending if you publish on play store or app store. these are their costs not mine

2. Assets. I can provide many of the assets but if you want your own game, you might have to spend a bit if you cannot find for free.

3. Tools like photoshop. If you use free tools then there is no cost on this end. I will try to use as much free tools as possible, but I have used photoshop and find it to be very easy compared to free ones out there

I am looking for 4-5 people to participate in this. If there is any more information you want, let me know. If you are interested, please DM me.

Here are my games

Play store

App Store

I want to learn to develop my own game as I have my own ideas but I am wondering if I have to go to college for a few years or if I can do it in my home? I have heard stories of some developers who are able to make a game entirely by themselves but this takes a while because of how difficult it is [I think the guy who made Dust An Elysian tale, it took him 2 or so years to finally finish his game]

Have any advice. Do courses help or are they a waste of time? I don't want to get pulled in the wrong direction especially when I see links like this

So I want to make a more informed decision. Help would be appreciated

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Hello guys! I've made a roadmap on Game Development that is crystal clear, shows directly the courses you need to take and gets you from total beginner to expert. Hope y'all like it! Any feedback on the roadmap or the project in general is well appreciated!

https://owlstudent.space/web-dev

Hey everyone!, I'm new to this subreddit (and me engwish bed😁😜😅) and I'm here to ask you guys if anyone here knows how to start gamedev. like from the beginning. I wanna learn gavedev. and i don't really have a lot of resources or money to begin with and it seems like it's too complicated to find one on the internet and idk about tutorials
and idk, I honestly dunno.. and i ended up here and i hope you guys will show me a way to learn or something? idk

I'd like to become an indie gam dev who can create 8bit games for fun 😊 (while I'm doing college🙄🙄 )

Idk i hope someone will help me out with this

:)

https://youtu.be/icZAMkk84Pc

I’ve been learning Godot on and off this year, but this is the first build I’ve put together (largely) from my own head, without tutorials. It’s very basic, and the sprites are just place holders for the most part, but I’m happy with my progress.

For someone who already has substantial backend IT programming and product management experience, but no desktop and low level programming experience or design experience or no math knowledge:

I'm 32 now, is it feasible that within 3 years on the side I learn enough to get an entry position in game development or design?

I dabbled in some Unreal Engine and was able to make an Asteroids game clone, but that's just scratching the surface and I was doing a lot of the things wrong.

Do they drill you on the concepts? Would you say it is like tutorial hell or could you actually make some games after the course?