How to get started in game development

Are you crazy about an idea?

Are you excited when new ideas come into your mind?

Are you always striving to make a positive impact in people’s lives?

If the answer is yes then this article is for you.

Have you ever made a game app for your android? Were you thinking about any particular feature that you didn’t like about a particular game? Yes, you are preparing to make a new App that could give water to your new idea.

Now, you will learn how to get started in game development. What is the game development itself? It is the total process to make a video game into reality. You may play Clash of Clan and many other popular games.

It is easy to play a video game but not so easy to build a new one. You have had an original idea, story, graphic content, settings, features, and many other things. If you think creating a game is easy it would not be the right thing assumption at all.

Sometimes people say developing a successful app needs to be an excellent gamer. In reality, it’s not the case. I don’t need to be an excellent gamer but you have to have a unique idea with many other processes to follow. In the following part, I will give a glimpse of ideas that will make you understand what will need to develop a game app.

So how to get started in game development.

First and foremost learn the programming language

If you want to dive into this world you should learn computer programming. If you have already know the basics of the language like C#, C++, Java, Python. It’s really good. C#, C++, Java, Python is considered the most common language to develop computer games though C++ is the most popular to develop a game.

Select familiar Game Engine: You are a beginner so you should understand this industry continuously. You should start with the most common game engine so that you could get several functionalities in one game engine from 2D, 3D modeling to AI, Networking. Game engines like UNITY, UNREAL ENGINE, are the most popular these days.

Start with the primary game: As a novice developer you should develop a basic app that will make you realize where your strength is coming from. Tetris, the most common first game, will give you the concept to understand the framework on how to build a new game App.

The pattern of game design: In-game design pattern, here is a concept known as object pooling. Object pooling a system where a similar problem will be erased by using a method frequently. Object Pooling is creating module code to fix several problems that arise frequently. So, understanding game design patterns is very crucial for any game app development. Here are much more game design patterns that existed for several problems fixing.

Learning Math Associated with 3D, 2D modeling: Being a top-notch game developer is not easy always but it takes time through the process of consistency and overall persistence. During the ’90s 2D models were the most popular building of any gaming app but time has been changed. 3D Modeling brings a new revolution in this field.

From the very basic requirements, 3D modeling highly interacted with Linear Algebra. So learning Modeling related math is beneficial to be a top-notch game developer.