Comments on: Games I played this week and IDEs I used http://greyaliengames.com/blog/games-i-played-this-week-and-ides-i-used/ Casual Game Development and Positive Thinking Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:15:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Bev Chesbro http://greyaliengames.com/blog/games-i-played-this-week-and-ides-i-used/comment-page-1/#comment-3105 Bev Chesbro Sat, 20 Mar 2010 08:34:37 +0000 http://greyaliengames.com/blog/?p=223#comment-3105 Our boy is mad regarding lego in addition to star wars lego - cheers for the info! Our boy is mad regarding lego in addition to star wars lego – cheers for the info!

]]> By: Grey Alien Games http://greyaliengames.com/blog/games-i-played-this-week-and-ides-i-used/comment-page-1/#comment-2934 Grey Alien Games Mon, 15 Feb 2010 01:33:54 +0000 http://greyaliengames.com/blog/?p=223#comment-2934 Hi Steve, XNA at home for fun, AS3 at BFG to help someone else out with their project. So if an experienced programmed wanted to get into game dev I'd recommend practising making games! Either use a language you are already good at, or research languages + libraries suitable for making games and start to make very simple basic games to study the principals involved. Also play lots of games and think about how they are made, see what works and what doesn't - analyse. Eventually you'll have to decide what area of game dev you want to get into, for example: casual or AAA, and then start studying more games in your chosen field. Also it's good to get other people to try out your games so that you can get an objective view on them and improve them. You may want to consider reading some game dev blogs or forums (like Indiegamer) for tips and for networking. Oh, and you've got to be passionate about making games and want to succeed! Hi Steve, XNA at home for fun, AS3 at BFG to help someone else out with their project.

So if an experienced programmed wanted to get into game dev I’d recommend practising making games! Either use a language you are already good at, or research languages + libraries suitable for making games and start to make very simple basic games to study the principals involved. Also play lots of games and think about how they are made, see what works and what doesn’t – analyse. Eventually you’ll have to decide what area of game dev you want to get into, for example: casual or AAA, and then start studying more games in your chosen field. Also it’s good to get other people to try out your games so that you can get an objective view on them and improve them. You may want to consider reading some game dev blogs or forums (like Indiegamer) for tips and for networking. Oh, and you’ve got to be passionate about making games and want to succeed!

]]> By: Steve http://greyaliengames.com/blog/games-i-played-this-week-and-ides-i-used/comment-page-1/#comment-2931 Steve Sun, 14 Feb 2010 20:23:11 +0000 http://greyaliengames.com/blog/?p=223#comment-2931 Curious if VS2008/XNA and Flex/AS3 are what you're using for BFG or are you just listing personal IDE's? What's your opinion on the best way to go for an experienced programmer to move into game dev? Curious if VS2008/XNA and Flex/AS3 are what you’re using for BFG or are you just listing personal IDE’s? What’s your opinion on the best way to go for an experienced programmer to move into game dev?

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