What About Making Your Own Game?

[Senkusha]

Over the past few years, I've been slowly leaning Unreal Engine (with lots of help from YouTube and the Unreal community). I found a tutorial on how to build your own RTS, and it's really exciting making something that's mine, and totally unique.

As much as I can't wait to play my own game when it's finished (in like 400 years), it's totally awesome fun just creating it!-- when I'm not cursing at my computer for why such-and so isn't working.... because I'm a baka!!

Anyway, both Unreal Engine and Unity 3D are free, especially for hobbyists! I prefer Unreal Engine's Blueprint scripting format over Unity3D, but then again, Unity3D had the bonus of being able to compile multiple different languages.

 

[Artisan Vistra]

I was about to shill for Godot because it supports C#, C++, and it's own custom language. It's lightweight and makes porting super easy so less work later on, and the classes for nodes seems elementary enough.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

Me and my pals tried once, we had an idea and story but we didn't have the time/effort to get it off the ground.

 

[Senkusha]

Making a game, especially as an Indie Studio is going to take A LOT of time and effort. The way I'm looking at my project, it might be ready to actually play in about 20 years! LOL But it's still a fun process just to create and get the thing working.

 

[Baw$e]

I dabbled in UDK or Unreal Engine years ago. I also tried out a few other game engines such as Cry Engine, and Unity. I stopped using them, because I needed a better PC to do what I wanted.

 

[TheRavenfreak]

I've always somewhat wanted to make my own game, but I'm not good at math or creating code from scratch. I'm better at modifying existing code so that's why I choose to work on ROM hacks over making things from scratch. I've got a friend who's good at making art, and I know he's wanted me to work on a game with him but I don't have the time to learn currently...