Game Development anyone?

[Red Phoenix]

Originally Posted by Frisbeetarian

Please, Do suggest

learn the tricks of the trade and start your own company :)

[Frisbeetarian]

learn the tricks of the trade and start your own company :)

Im very much inclined to learning by myself, but having difficulty locating free "tricks" and resources.

[Red Phoenix]

Originally Posted by Frisbeetarian

Im very much inclined to learning by myself, but having difficulty locating free "tricks" and resources.

i know, it's a long starting curve, but ask me in private whatever u want, i'll tell u.

tonight i'll be busy in a while, so u can start to ask me tomorrow

[orange infection]

Originally Posted by Red Phoenix

IO, the trick is that it's not only textbook C++ here that will get u a game running, but C++ with game APIs and SDKs and full Engines..

that's the trick right there :D

is there any famous games done using these engines ????

[Frisbeetarian]

is there any famous games done using these engines ????

Serious Sam's engine was home made.

[Red Phoenix]

Originally Posted by orange infection

is there any famous games done using these engines ????

ofcourse.

big engines/sdks end up being used by AAA developers with rich publishers behind them.

sad little engines/sdks are the only thing that indie teams can afford.


Cryengine, Unreal Engine, Source Engine, IDtech, Lithtech Jupiter EX, all of these are very powerful, very famous and very expensive engines.

Ogre3d (only a renderer), Irrlicht, Panda, Crystal Space are examples of free, kinda useless at times engines.

Torque3D, Unity, C4, Visual3D.net.. are affordable kinda useful engines for indie developers.

dont forget, there is a very strong modding community also that creates free mods for famous games/engines.

[Red Phoenix]

Originally Posted by Frisbeetarian

Serious Sam's engine was home made.

it was done by the CroTeam from Croatia.

pretty neat engine by many standards.

[darkstar]

Originally Posted by Frisbeetarian

Im studying to later work in the gaming industry. The plan goes like this:

-Finish Computer Science Degree
-Off to Canada for Game Development Degree.
-Finish that, take training sessions at Ubisoft.
-Finish that, hopefully will work at Blizzard

Haha I guess you and my brother share the same dream. He will be leaving this year to Concordia which recently started provided a game development major.
What's your progress so far? Have you started with your major?

[Frisbeetarian]

Haha I guess you and my brother live the same dream. He will be leaving this year to Concordia who recently started provided a game development major.
What's your progress so far? Have you started with your major?

Hahaha planning to go to Concordia as well .
Yeah, second year computer science.
And you, what are your plans?

[darkstar]

Check out the list of "Game Engines" also check out this link for some cool articles regarding game development.

@orange infection:
Just check out what C++ can do in the links above. The C++ you learn in university might give you the impression that it is only a black and white console.

@Red Phoenix & Frisbeetarian: I'd love to have a chat with you guys.