Understanding game development.
Video games are interactive media. In order to make a game you must simply take media and make it interactive.
Normally this is done using what is called a "Game Development Engine". These useful programs are made to help you create video games by importing media and programming it to do things. G.D.E.'s have little engines behind the scenes doing things like drawing the media on the screen and keeping track of positions. These guys are doing the hard work and saving you lots of time. Since they are doing the hard stuff all you have to do is program it. Programming is simply giving a list of instructions that the computer can understand. For Example:
If you run in to the wall then stop moving.
This is an instruction that you can understand, but the computer cannot. You would tell it something like this:
Normally this is done using what is called a "Game Development Engine". These useful programs are made to help you create video games by importing media and programming it to do things. G.D.E.'s have little engines behind the scenes doing things like drawing the media on the screen and keeping track of positions. These guys are doing the hard work and saving you lots of time. Since they are doing the hard stuff all you have to do is program it. Programming is simply giving a list of instructions that the computer can understand. For Example:
If you run in to the wall then stop moving.
This is an instruction that you can understand, but the computer cannot. You would tell it something like this:
If obj_player.x = obj_wall.x {
speed = 0;
}
This may not look readable but it is actually quite simple.
What this code does it tells an object what to do if its location is the same as another's. Once you assign media like an animation or image to the object it becomes visible. Now you can tell it to do other things like when you press up go up! Now you have interactive media!
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What this code does it tells an object what to do if its location is the same as another's. Once you assign media like an animation or image to the object it becomes visible. Now you can tell it to do other things like when you press up go up! Now you have interactive media!
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