Game Developers

So I was just wondering if there are any game developers out there (even if you just do it as a hobbie or are an aspiring game developer)? I'm just finishing up in college now and have a game in development and wish I'd have gotten into it sooner because I bloody love it so I think that is the reason I started this thread, to show people interested in it where to start off. The Game Engine I use most is Unity, another popular engine is Unreal Engine (I'm sure you've heard of Unreal Tournament, they develop that but I can go in to that a little bit more later if any of you are interested) but I'm just scratching the surface with that at the moment so can mainly only talk about Unity for now. Unity and Unreal can be downloaded free here:

Unity
Unreal Engine

So a bit about them, both are free for anyone to use as a "Student", the costs come in to play only if you make a game and then plan on releasing it commercially in which case you need to buy a licence first off Unity ($1,500) or in the case of Unreal Engine pay them 5% of any profits you make from the game. As I said I'm still only scratching the surface with Unreal so for now I'll just talk Unity.

Firstly if you plan on downloading and installing Unity take this peice of advice. On page 3 of the installer (just after the licence agreement) it will ask you what you wish to install, stick with the defaults for now except UNTICK "Microsoft Visual Studios Community" (it will be ticked by default so untick it! ) and I'll show you why:

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as you can see there is a whopping 8 gig difference which is the difference between a 1 hour instalation and a 9 hour installation but not only that Unity already has it's own built in Code editor called MonoDevelop which works fine but if you install Visual Studios it will try to constantly over ride Mono develop and can cause massive crashes. To be honest I don't even know why Unity have it there, in my experience they are not compatable and using them together causes nothing but frustration so trust me on this. After that you can just accept all the other defaults on the installer.

Unity have a lot of tutorials to get you started so I suggest giving them a try just to get your feet wet but don't expect to remember everything from them so this is just to get you started and then after that hopefully, if enough of you are intrested, we can turn this thread into somewhere where you can ask question about your games code and we can get our own little Game development community going [:smiley:]

Since we already have a thread on game development I thought I'd ask a question here. Does anybody know of any reliable resource (free or paid) where game development tutorials can be found for developing MMO's, preferably text-based?

Thank you to OP for the tip about Unity engine. It these little things that will make the game development process much smoother for newbie devs.

For unity the is plenty to get the basics covered on the site or mainly YouTube. For html5 and JavaScript Mozilla game development offer great tutorials

If you want to make a textbased mmo make a website where all the info is stored server side, look into the MEAN stack for that, pretty easy to make web apps using it, assuming you already have a basic understanding of javascript.

Its all subjective really, some people like visual studio, its amazing for c# and c++, which is why it is included in the unity download.

Are you coding or using the drag and drop features in unreal and unity?

Currently dragging and dropping, want to get in to coding though.

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Interesting.. but then they are all in-dev. Will look more in to it.

Cry Engine is pay what you want now. It doesn't have as good of tutorials/documentation resources as Unity though.