I know this post is very old.. But I sincerely thank you all for the responses..

You're welcome, glad you found some of it helpful.

How have you gone in the meantime, have you made some progress with your learnings @bigmacmuffin?

On 6/13/2019 at 10:09 AM, jbadams said:

You're welcome, glad you found some of it helpful.

 

How have you gone in the meantime, have you made some progress with your learnings @bigmacmuffin?

As I dug deeper and deeper into game development, oh boy do I need to learn a lot of technicalities.

First off, I need to know my limits (my hardware capabilities on which I can render graphics etc.) so to as not "AIM" for complicated 3D designs in Unreal engine.

I also need to do world building, create a story of which I myself can enjoy as well as the people who will enter the world I have created.

It is hard to animate with a mouse(would be nice to grab myself one of those drawing pads to make it easier.

I also came across a seasoned audio engineer who can help me in the future which my sound needs.

I would really want to see this through and I know my 1st game would not be a success( maybe the 50th game would be) but this is one of my life goals. Right went my dad brought home that NES family computer I fell in love with games and making games.

well for now I think I will start with 2d games since im only using and I3 laptop with built in graphics, it is not fast but I know for sure can at least make do with 2d graphics.

it is said the first project one should try is to make a pong-like game on whatever engine you're using.

you just need a circle or sphere and two bars or walls as props.

world building and other complex or niche skills come right after

Just an update on my progress,

I was making good progress on unreal engine but then my laptop gave in.

NO back up on cloud storage, I would have to have that laptop fixed so that I can continue on something wrong with the power supply jack that it made smoke when I power it up.. and it was my decent laptop with good enough graphics to run unreal.

How many time you need to make playable Pong demo using C++ (or/and Blueprints) and Unreal Engine? Try to build it to EXE and publish here. I want to play and I want to see how MB it requires on hard disk.