So, You Want to Make Games?

SO, YOU WANT TO MAKE GAMES?

WELL, JU# $% A &'!

BUT…BUT…

BUT… BUT…

BUT…BUT…

BUT…

BUT…

B)CK,LLS A- .E- FOR A -ASON!

BUT I 8N’T :DE!

OF :U>E YOU 8N’T. BUT YOU HAVEN’T AL,YS BEEN ABF G ,LK, ILK,

W)J, KVE, EI.ER. YOU JU# HAVE G FAN.

IN .E 'AO'…

If you want to design games, you should start designing games. You can design games with a deck of cards. With index cards. And a pen, don’t forget a pen. You can do it with some poker chips, with some Lego bricks, with an old chess board. Your first lesson is: “games are not their graphics”. Or their framerate. They are their rules.

– Raph Koster

TL; DR: You can start making games with whatever you have to hand.

Processing

Stencyl

Game Maker Studio

Unity

TOOP DON’T $QR. CORUNIT DOES.

http://hobbygamedev.com

http://gamemechanicexplorer.com

http://makega.me

“Ok, I’ve made my small crappy boardgame. !

I have decided the tools. !

Now can I start making my Massive Online FPS Arena RPG Multiplayer with 300 playable

characters and a free roaming world?”

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SOMETHING LIKE THIS, MAYBE?

BO)W? REYX IT!

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http://makegames.tumblr.com

OK, AND NOW?

TALK ABOUT YOUR &' LET `OaE Tb IT GET FEEDBACK

LOVE IT.

NOW, $% ANO.ER &'!

MA% 1 &' A gEK!

JOIN A &' JAM!

KEEP jDYIW!

MA% AN ONkNE lRTFOkO!

(this is itch.io, you can even sell your games here!)

AQND :OL EVEo!

(this is Wild Rumpus, photo taken by Robin Baumgarten)

GOOD LUCK!

THANq!

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