Current Events > Has anyone here made a video game before?

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Or dabbled or anything? What was your experience like? What type of game? Etc.
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I doubt that very, very much.
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I would think there'd he quite a few people who've made little projects here. Even just as a hobby.
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I've done it before when I was in university with a couple of other guys for a class. It was a shitload of work for a dinky little game. Fortunately, one of the guys had more experience with programming than me, he got us set up with an SVN repository which made working on it separately so much easier, but even things like getting animations working properly from sprite sheets we blatantly stole from other games is way more work than a lot of people would realize.

I no longer have anything to do with programming, for the record, nor do I want to.
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Co-made several little projects at uni for fun (completely unrelated to my accounting degree, just a hobby a group of us were all interested in).

RPG Maker stuff if that counts even though its simple stuff
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I had a phase where I tried to go the indie gamedev route (even did it full-time for about 6 months), but it was never going to pan out - I've always been a coder but shitty game designer/graphics artist/etc, so I lost motivation and interest in all of my projects quickly.

I did make a game in a weekend game jam as the sole programmer in a team of 4 though (two of which had industry experience at AAA companies). That was a fun experience, it was a pretty basic game (think Plants vs Zombies) but was nice to have a fully completed game that got decent feedback in the jam.
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I dabbled in some platform shooter projects on game maker studio. GMS is actually a pretty robust little game engine for 2D projects. Hyper Light Drifter was made using it
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I'm messing around with GMS 1.4 right now. That's why I made the topic actually lol it's pretty fun. GML seems pretty straight forward and simple.
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2BurFantasy posted...

RPG Maker stuff if that counts even though its simple stuff

This. But never more than just simple things. I couldn't be bothered with weapon and monster stats so I never made more than a hideout or house with a few switches for fun.
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I'm working on one. It's an old school turn based RPG.

It's an especially fun project because I'm writing the engine too.
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Mostly basic 2D games (Space Invaders, Pool, a canon / target shooting game, etc.). I also made a couple of 3D games (in the loosest sense of the word), one from scratch in OpenGL and the other using the Ogre 3D engine. They were basically tech demos to show graphics techniques (and Kinect integration for the second one). They were really terrible also.

My first complete project was a Gradius clone
An FPS Platformer that was mostly just screwing around to see what I could do. Had two complete levels before I lost all the code
RPG Maker stuff
A shitty versus racing platformer that I scrapped

Now working on a Zelda 2-ish thing with magical girls