I don't understand the fascination with game development. I find writing desktop applications much more rewarding, because they're actually used by people -- I've seen people's lives changed by a Task Manager.
Why games? Nobdody will remember your Tetris clone.
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Anonymous2007-01-05 4:05
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Nobody will remember your Task Manager clone either, dipshitfuck.
Games are fun. I haven't seen anyone orgasming over a task manager...
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Anonymous2007-01-05 4:55
>>I don't understand the fascination with game development.
You see there is this stuff called money, required for living, and generally desired by anyone. Game develo... fuck you idiot.
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Anonymous2007-01-05 7:37
I think the main facination of game development stems from peoples desire to modifiy or create their own 3D enviroment that they can enjoy and other people may find the game enjoyable too. People like joghn carmack love doing jobs like these because they truly like creating products that people will use and enjoy.
One disadvantage that the indstry of C++ programing is that alot of development work is simply re-creating the wheel and development tools. Alot of commercial alternative 3D engines out their either price them-selves out of the market for new people, or simply are the wrong aritectual design for new generation games. Because of this, development studios typicaly if creating a new high end game have to sit down and start from scratch or use exsiting systems and improve them.
There are free alternative engines out their, but typicaly publishing companys will not touch you with a 10 foot pool because of legal and legality reasons of the GPU with open source games. They like having everthing closed source, and that you truly own the game you produce. Their is online distrubtion channels, but they're limited in the audiance you can achieve with a very good publishing company.
In regards to personal preference that you seem to be wondering about with the Task Manager and also 3D games. it truly stems from what you want as a invidual and the direction you want to achieve. No-one else can tell you otherwise, its a completly up to you.
Really its a dicision you have to make of your own preference. But I truly think you should move out of your confort zone with Task manager application and give some of the low down C++ and game development a wirl. What you learn from and experience in game development you cannot in other industrys. The experience that you bring with you from different project scopes and budjet just helps you really achieve what you want to do, and the pay scale compaired to sombody else who stay in one field will be very very different.
But i dont know your technical background, but the best of all luck in your future courier...
Writing a game in C#, and I'm having a grand old time at it. While C# isn't really the best choice for a gamedev language, it's easy to use and compile, and is relatively fast and responsive.
I'm also a designer and a graphic artist, as well as an amateur composer, and apparently, according to my friends, a good storyteller in all the mediums I've used so far. To see all the my diciplines I practise come together in a single presentation makes it for me.
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Anonymous2007-01-06 2:24
>>10 [...] according to my friends, a good storyteller in all the mediums I've used so far.
Yeah, you seem to have a talent for talking out your ass.
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Anonymous2007-01-06 4:21
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because I can play my own games? wooooooo that was difficult to understand for you...
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Anonymous2007-01-06 16:44
There's nothing more boring and less rewarding than creating applications who actually don't want to use computers.
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Anonymous2007-01-06 16:45
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Meant to say "for people who actually don't want to use computers"