12-26-2012, 07:12 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-26-2012, 07:12 PM by Bombshell93.)
concerning the indie scene, Nintendo I think picked up on the massive home brew community for the jail-broken wii, and realised both parties could benefit via them opening their console, so if not early, I expect soon, the wiiU will become a hostel for upcoming indie studios.
Xbox seems a bit of a betrayer, XNA is a nice framework to easily get moving on a project but the xbox and windows phone side was crushed by the lack of regulating content, numerous piles of festering sh*t poured in and as long as microsoft were getting their creators club fees they didn't care left or right, now XBLIG in particular is a sea of poorly design minecraft clones, almost pornographic jigsaw puzzle games and various dating sims with graphics so bad it'd put you in a coma, there is the occasional gem and I'm particularly a fan of the radiangames series, but not nearly enough for people to even want to pay attention.
PS3 is a lost cause but the PS4 being announced next year is likely to have indie support, Sony are on their last breath and if they don't pull up from the crash in PS3 sales and the lack of interest people showed to the vita (though I have one and its a very very good console) their going to go under, they have recently showed a lot of interest in developing an API for indie console development particularly aimed at the vita and to a degree the PS3, I'm willing to bet they'll only put this in practice come the PS4, else their dead console would be kept alive by low profit indie games.
By far the best systems to aim for at the moment for an indie developer is browser and mobile, both of which are very favourable towards java, (though the next best language is C++) because of the ways android and IOS are made the difference between C languages and java is negligible, its more down to preference.
if you want to learn C++ there is certainly nothing stopping you, though if you aim for browser / mobile the framework(s) you will be using will have you working as if it were java in the first place.
Not trying to discourage you, its just a question if its worth your time. (I only learned C++ because I'm a bit of an enthusiast on graphics programming, and I've long been wanting to make a AAA lighting engine)
Xbox seems a bit of a betrayer, XNA is a nice framework to easily get moving on a project but the xbox and windows phone side was crushed by the lack of regulating content, numerous piles of festering sh*t poured in and as long as microsoft were getting their creators club fees they didn't care left or right, now XBLIG in particular is a sea of poorly design minecraft clones, almost pornographic jigsaw puzzle games and various dating sims with graphics so bad it'd put you in a coma, there is the occasional gem and I'm particularly a fan of the radiangames series, but not nearly enough for people to even want to pay attention.
PS3 is a lost cause but the PS4 being announced next year is likely to have indie support, Sony are on their last breath and if they don't pull up from the crash in PS3 sales and the lack of interest people showed to the vita (though I have one and its a very very good console) their going to go under, they have recently showed a lot of interest in developing an API for indie console development particularly aimed at the vita and to a degree the PS3, I'm willing to bet they'll only put this in practice come the PS4, else their dead console would be kept alive by low profit indie games.
By far the best systems to aim for at the moment for an indie developer is browser and mobile, both of which are very favourable towards java, (though the next best language is C++) because of the ways android and IOS are made the difference between C languages and java is negligible, its more down to preference.
if you want to learn C++ there is certainly nothing stopping you, though if you aim for browser / mobile the framework(s) you will be using will have you working as if it were java in the first place.
Not trying to discourage you, its just a question if its worth your time. (I only learned C++ because I'm a bit of an enthusiast on graphics programming, and I've long been wanting to make a AAA lighting engine)