In our era of video games; amazing graphics, complex shaders, immersive 3D graphics and stunning game play is the norm. We are bombarded with quality titles each week. This is great for gamers, but the truth is aspiring game developers make huge mistakes when jumping into game development. Most tend to look at big names and super AA titles and start to think in terms of a MMO, RPG's and great visuals.
They overwhelm themselves too easily and then lose all hopes. An important key to a successful project is to realistically limit your vision. Flying ambitions will meet an empty template project, a folder which only reminds you of how it was too difficult to become a game developer. If you are still ready to learn game programming then let's begins.
I will focus on C# and XNA. So the first thing which you should do is to download Microsoft XNA Game studio 3.1 and Visual Studio Express 2010
Hopefully you already know some programming; this will make things much easier. I will quickly cover some basic C# object orientated programming, though I recommend you grab this book: Professional C# 4.0 and.Net 4 if you are not yet familiar with C#.
If you are not yet motivated to get started in this industry check out these stats
Programming Video Games pays you handsomly
- Programmers: $85,000
- Artists: $69,000
- Game Designers: $67,000
- Producers: $82,000
- Quality Assurance: $39,000
- Audio: $78,000
- Business & Marketing: $102,000
Programming: programmers are the highest paid talent next to high-end business, with an average annual salary of $ 85,024. Experience pays in this paper, such as those with more than six years of experience earned a 26% more than the average annual salary.
This is actually just a prologue, so for this week, I would like you to familiarize yourself with the software, read about it online, do some experimenting. Play a bit with it! Hopefully by next week you will be ready, ready to get started. You can get a draft of the second article at http://www.techno-flux.co.cc/gamedev-getting-started-on-c/.
Heya people. I am quite new to Ezine articles, so excuse me if I seem a bit unprofessional. I am still learning and stuff. Feedback is appreciated.
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