Comments on: Have You Ever Wanted to be a 3D Game Developer?

By: GABRIELLA

GABRIELLA — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:18:50 +0000

i wanna game that u can get pregnet and not download cuz ma grandma is really strict about downloading stuff so pleae make me a game like that any questions please contact me at gabbychula10@yahoo.com please please make a game that u can have a baby and sex sorry for my laugage and make ur avater and just play like real life so i can experricness how u have a baby please :(

By: Cole

Cole — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 01:56:28 +0000

YES that is one of my great dreams!!!! if only if only =/ i have expreimented with alice tho its a good program and i love it so far

By: LittleBigRedTruck

LittleBigRedTruck — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:46:29 +0000

You know… I have also ways been interested in games and technology and I have had this edge of making my own games and programs like this help me a lot since I don’t quite understand all part of game making. Even though you make cheesy games they are fun like pacman or tetris(Chris’s favorite and my mom’s). They may be lame but can be very addicting for hours and hours on end. I think one day I will make video games for fun and I hope I do. I don’t know maybe I will be the next game console maker too!

By: Bror

Bror — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 23:12:18 +0000

Yeah, I really want to be a games programmer and I’m starting my programming course next year :D
I will be starting out with Visual Basic and I will after that be going over to C++. Visual Basic is a good first programming language as far as I heard since it is pretty easy and teaches you the basics of programming. C++ is pretty much the most used language for programming and if you know C++ you can get gaming programming jobs easier (game producers are often seeking “C++ experts”).
If you’re not entirely sure that you want to be programming most of your life you should probably not get into it. To get a good job in programming you have to be very good at it. And becoming good at programming requries quite a lot of work.
I don’t quite enjoy games all that much but I would really like to create them, I love creating things that other people love such as music and other creative things :P

By: TylerInZeeHowze

TylerInZeeHowze — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 20:46:02 +0000

I would love to become a 3D game designer, and being a beginner I’ve tried a lot of different software tools on Mac OSX and Windows, and so far I think that the standard tools on Mac OSX (X Code, Quartz Composer, Instruments, Dashcode, etc.) work very very well. It’s great if you can jump into it and learn easily like I can. If you are really really just beginning (for example have no idea what C++ or any programming languages are) then I would try out GameMaker 7 for Windows. This is great for beginners, because it starts you off by learning everything on a drag and drop user interface, then if you want to get into more difficult things like 3d animations, then they start you out writing a simplified version of C++ (I believe it is) that uses similar names an functions that are used in the graphical drag and drop version. I like Mac OSX’s programming tools, but I did start out on GameMaker 6/7. The only dis-advantage of GameMaker is that it is $20 or so if you want the full version compared to X Code and Mac OSX’s programming tools that are free for download with an Apple Developer Connection account (these tools also usually come with the iPhone/iPod touch SDK). I am awaiting to try Alice as mentioned above, but until I can really try it, I’m not going to say anything about it (I’ll be sure to comment as soon as I get a chance to check it out.

I’m a member on Geeks if anyone has any questions/comments, too.

TylerInZeeHowze

By: Jess

Jess — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:50:53 +0000

i always wanted to be a game designer. gaming is so much fun with friends or just by yourself!

By: jonas3d

jonas3d — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 08:57:20 +0000

Hey Chris another easy tool for a newbie game developer is http://www.sploder.com/ http://www.gamemaker.nl and http://realityfactory.info. Very cool stuff very easy to use.

By: bigthboy

bigthboy — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 23:10:18 +0000

Yeah, I’ve always wanted to be a game developer…second behind what I’m doing which is the owner of a tech company… And in all actuality, video game studios are a technology company. One specific game idea I actually tried to make a reality and had my own start-up for it. We ended up getting a lot of artwork done, a little bit of programming (not much), and had the opportunity to present it to MS Games. Well, things didn’t work out in our favor and now that’s shelved until later when I have the money to do it myself :P….

I learned about Alice a short time after that. I’ve already started another venture else Alice might be something I’d use to restart the game project. :P

By: George

George — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 21:46:41 +0000

Hey Chris, i wasnt around for the beginning of apple or Microsoft and all that jazz but my friend actually made an online game and it was up for a while. It was called Paco’s Realm. It doesnt exist anymore but it was cool while it lasted.

Cya, Borge

By: Eggy (or theeggman)

Eggy (or theeggman) — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:56:25 +0000

I originally heard about this project when I was completing one my college programing classes (Basic C++) about two years ago or so. I’m glad to see that its finally available for anybody to try. While I haven’t quite had the time to explore completely, but I really want to and I hope others do as well.

By: Cubs

Cubs — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:36:20 +0000

Wow, this seems pretty cool. I’ll definitely check this out. I have a little bit of background in this, but hopefully I will able to learn a little more with this program.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:06:12 +0000

Yeah, in another life I wanted to be a game developer. Then I found out how much math was involved!

I settled on becoming a web app developer. :)

By: kdb424

kdb424 — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:49:22 +0000

Yes I have, and I have developed many 2D games, and am on the way to school for programming. A better question is can you make a game for us viewers. lol

By: Arthur Abogadil

Arthur Abogadil — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:30:29 +0000

Yeah, Alice is a good introduction to programming software that is also a game dev package. I’ve tried it in the past and its nifty, maybe i’ll be checking it again later. It’s also worth mentioning that Microsoft XNA Game Studio 3.0 Beta is now available, but the XBOX 360 export is not yet enabled in the beta, they said that it will be available on the final release.

By: Doug McFarlane

Doug McFarlane — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:21:35 +0000

Was the C64 program: Garry Kitchen’s GameMaker?
I tried that a few times. Some of the included games were quite fun actually.

Plus, there’s quite a few packages out now for designing 3D games for the PC, such as DarkBasic. Or, for the programmer, add a library such as TrueVision3D to your favorite language to simplify all the 3D programming.