(01-08-2016, 08:02 AM)Raccoon Sam Wrote: How do I get into gamedev
Can't tell if this is a serious question due to the lack of a question mark but
If you mean the programming aspect of gamedev, snoop around and see which language you think fits you. Ask people, look up stuff, look at demos and examples and tutorials. Think about what you want to do and which language will do that. Be warned, lots of people try and start off with C/C++ and while that's possible, it's literally the hardest language out there (because assembly languages really don't count). I would highly recommend starting off with anything else, and only going into it if you really need or want to. It's all-purpose but that also means it's a royal pain to understand, especially as your first language.
But yeah, choose something and then just practice. As with anything, start off small and work your way up. Do "Hello World", then make a calculator or lottery app, and follow some tutorials. Get the hang of coding, slowly learn all the basic stuff you need to know, and figure out how to find the stuff you don't know. A word of advice; you will never ever remember everything in your head. Stuff like syntax and such you'll just get used to, and over time you may remember some commonly used functions, but you will forever and always be looking up stuff. Everybody does and it's a necessary skill. Either using the language's official reference or just Google, be prepared to spend a lot of your time looking things up because you'll constantly be learning. And you'll always go back and re-read the description of that function you only use once every 3 months.
^All of this is just a quick "getting started" introduction to programming. Just my opinion though, so yeah. Take from it what you will.
I also wrote it at 2:30am so