RE: Making Video Games
01-24-2020, 10:58 PM
Do you have any programming experience? If not, you really don't want to start making everything from scratch, and you really don't want to have to learn C++ as your first language.
I'd recommend getting Yoyo Gamemaker 2, which has prebuilt rendering, ui, game loop, etc utilities, and has a drag and drop action flow programming system. If you want to make 3D games, you could start with Unity instead, which is a bit more powerful but uses a harder language and doesn't have the drag and drop option.
Unless you're planning on making entirely text-based games (in which case I would recommend Python or Twine, not C++), you really don't want to start from scratch. You'll waste way too much time on shaders, physics, game loops, etc. to ever get to work on the actual game part.
I'd recommend getting Yoyo Gamemaker 2, which has prebuilt rendering, ui, game loop, etc utilities, and has a drag and drop action flow programming system. If you want to make 3D games, you could start with Unity instead, which is a bit more powerful but uses a harder language and doesn't have the drag and drop option.
Unless you're planning on making entirely text-based games (in which case I would recommend Python or Twine, not C++), you really don't want to start from scratch. You'll waste way too much time on shaders, physics, game loops, etc. to ever get to work on the actual game part.
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