It's good to see that HIVE blockchain has the game development community. I have been writing game development tutorials for some time now. And it was kind of difficult for me to use other programming communities for these tutorials.
If you have checked Education community, I am sure you'd have came across my GDevelop tutorials.
Do let me know if you like such tutorials to be posted here.
I have been making Gdevelop game development series for kids and hoping that more kids pick it up as it is one of the easy engines. However if you are into university or completed education and maybe post education years. My suggestion for you is to make use of the Godot Engine.
Image Credit : Godot Engine
Why Godot Engine?
There are many reasons for godot engine. Compared to gdevelop, the learning curve is steep but once you commit yourself to learning you get a lot of interesting results out of it.
- It's free and open source.
- It now has proper software conservancy support behind the engine.
- You can export to android, apple, windows and linux.
- You can make 2D, 2.5D insometric and 3D games from the engine.
- Settings and configuration once done can pretty much set you up for the lifecycle of project.
And I can keep on listing it's benefit.
I have so far in past have covered Gdevelop, AppGameKit, GameMaker Studio and now I am covering the godot engine. I am thinking that I should specifically choose one engine to make my posts here. So that this would keep my content consistent here. And if I make any other game engine related posts, I may try to keep in my it wont' be repeating content.
You can expect my godot engine specific content here. I have already posted a lot of it on youtube and few other places.
You can check my Godot engine Tutorials.
Am I going to make any game for Gplay store or Apple?
Blame my anxiety. I have made tutorials. I have made graphics and other content. But I have yet to gather some courage to finish a product worth posting on gplay or apple store. Something I guess I'd get that courage by writing on HIVE and other places and finally releasing my game. All I need is push outside this anxiety.
Coming back to the godot engine.
I'd say I am going to document my game development steps and then finally once every roadblock has been checked and my product is ready for the final output. I am going to release the project. Till then I hope to continue to write about it and make videos about it.
Look forward to some of my content that is focused on tutorials and the roadmap for my game design and testing.
That's it for now.
Cheers!
Awesome,this is the kind of content that is needed. I hope you get a lot more eyeballs on your content as this community grows.
Thanks I hope so too :)
This is pretty neat. When I first started looking into mobile game designing I ultimately whittle my choices down to Godot or Unity; I ended up choosing Unity. Have you done a comparison between the two at all?
I didn't because I realized my laptop had limited RAM and space and Unity would be overkill for me in the long run. But now that I have gaming laptop (ASUS). I need to invest some time in Unity and see if it's any better for beginners or intermediate users. In due time. I am going to cover multiple engines as is. :)
I understand that. If I had the time I'd jump into Godot, too; I really like the free/open source aspect of it. At the very least it's great to have options!
Why not try to make a game for Hive? Seems like the games we have now a thriving :)
I have no idea how to integrate HIVE blockchain with the godot engine or gdevelop. I am kind of stuck in intermediate level on that. But yeah if I ever make game on HIVE blockchain it'd be like "townhall" type RPG game. Lot of ideas but yeah have to push that execution anxiety :D
@battlegames in the past has talked about how having SDK’s on several game engines would help a lot to attract more game developers and building games here on Hive.
We also do need a lot more documentation in general to make it easier and less painful to work things out.
I’m hoping as more interest gets drummed up this become a reality over time. Along with more information flowing out of private discords and people’s minds onto the blockchain for everyone to use.
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