I wouldn 't really call Actionscript a great language. It made for easy iteration and fast dev times and is easy enough to learn, but performance wise it 's just not good enough to keep up with the capabilities of today 's technology.
Making games for business and making games for passion are two different things but they don 't have to be excluding. If all you are concerned about is whether or not your skills are marketable you probably are making games for the wrong reasons and yes, you probably will burn ...
I approve this message. I especially agree with the point on over generalizing code even when not necessary. From an outsiders point of view reading someone elses work, it can be really hard to follow someones code when everything has been generalized, especially in game development. I typically fall on ...
That depends. You definitely don 't want to re-invent the wheel more then you have to. Most platforms have some sort of free or almost free framework to start with. I started my journey with XNA which is really just a framework without any kind of visual tools and made ...
Here is something that needs to be pointed out because every gaming site I have read so far on this story keeps comparing Halo 4 's 220 million day one sales to Modern Warfare 3 's 400 million. Consider that Modern Warfare launched on 3 platforms, and Halo 4 is ...
Racism should be considered a mental disorder because you 'd have to be really strange to think that because someone is different it makes them less then you.
