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QuestionI'm an aspiring game developer and I'm still in high school, what do I do to have a head start?(self.gamedev)
Hello, I am an aspiring game developer and I want to take Game Dev or Game Design in the future. To ...
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I am not a trained professional and I don’t have a degree, but I have finished high school (Danish HTX - Higher technical exam; focus on math, biology, physics and computers) and have done 3/5 of a computer scientist degree.
The best advice I can give you is: - Get an IDE (integrated development environment); Eclipse, IntelliJ, Visual studio. - Learn some basic programming; Python is nice and simple to start out with. - Once you have learned just a few basics; Variables, methods and the like try to learn some OOP (Object oriented programming) - Maybe get Unity if you would like to make games. I just wouldn’t recommend it before you at least know some amount of programming. - Learn a C language since its basically profession required; Java, C#, C++. - Learn to use github since it’s basically profession required.
If you get / learn those things I would say you have a good little head start.
But if you want a even bigger one / almost finish a degree: - Learn UML (Unified modeling language) - Learn HTML - Learn SQL - Learn JavaScript
I also participate in a game jam once at a college; They had tons of things too teach. So maybe participate in a few of those in different positions. The one I was at thought; 2D, 3D, Sound and programming as far as I remember.