First of all i want give my cordial love to all game enthusiast out there who love and adore this medium. A lot of people ask me what should they do or where should they go to become a game developer?
In my point of view, institutions on this topics are not so trust worthy and self learning, asking questions in community, solving problem in you own way are the key to success to become a good game developer. There are several game engines that provides supports for different aspect of game developing in a developer friendly way like you will find Animation, Physics, Collision, Programming, Level design, Audio Manager and many more at your finger tips. Game industry are more powerful than movie, audio and books combine. If you want to dive into game developing inspired by Uncharted 4, Last of Us and Want to make game like that than hold down you horses. Always if you went to kitchen for the first time can you cook the best food you ever have ever tasted. I bet can’t cook even the worst food of your life. That the point if want to learn how to cook you have to start with Eggs and continuously keep practicing to master the craft along with learning new tricks.
Think Game Engines like Kitchen that provides all necessary tools and functions to make delicious item. There are Many Game Engine Unity, Unreal , Game Maker Studio , Cocos 2D etc. where all has its pros and cons. I started My game developing In Game Maker Studio which allows drag and drop functions that allow you making games without using any code. I had made a Space Shooter Game clone of Astroied in order to learn all the game developing phases.
After developing two more games I wanted to make games for android and notice Game Maker Studio free version doesn’t allow android port.
Than i moved to Unity Engine which provides all cross platform port in it’s free addition along with amazing support in the community where will get almost all question answered already. I really surprised seeing so many supports out there. Moreover as a programmer lying between C# and Javascript is also a great pleasure. Than I again dive into making games using tutorials i found online. I polished my programming skill along with art and design day by day and now have several completed projects. Although I am still learning but now I confident enough that i can bring my ideas into life through coding and art.
Learning programming by making game very fun and effective as you can see the output working visually and it always it encourage to try new stuff and see what is the output. sometime mistakes are fun and amazing.
Last but not least Game developing is very difficult and self motivation is only juice you will get to recharge yourself . You may often get frustrated, some of you precious project may become nightmare to you , you may start to judge you choice of selecting this as career , you games may be the get unnoticed by the crowd but always believe that you like to create stuff and it is in you blood and nothing is comparable to it. So Good luck and have fun with you game developing life.
Khan Arena 