We want to write our own game

Greenheart Games
#1

Me and a friend from the forums, @firebolt2012, are going to be making a game.

Now, we can’t really announce anything because we don’t have anything that can be deemed playable, but I have a few questions,

Q: How much experience do you think it’d require to make a game similar to Game Dev Tycoon?

Q: You said the game was coded in JS, and HTML5, what areas should we focus more on learning?

Q: How did you make the sliders slide?

Q: Any tips for me and @firebolt2012?

@PatrickKlug @DanielKlug, answer these questions please, if you can.

#2

bump

#3

Not to mention but…
Shouldn’t this topic be in the Greenheart Games category?

#4

hi got something I feel needs to be in the game! when making consoles we should be able to pick policy’s to put on are console.

POLICY’S are needed in the game plz!

#5

These questions simply don’t have a right answer.

It depends on the person. Daniel and I have a combined 20 years experience as software engineers and it still took us over a year to develop GDT. It’s certainly not easy to develop such a game from scratch if you don’t have prior game development or HTML/JS experience.

Impossible to answer since I don’t know what your skill level is. If you want to write games from scratch (as opposed to using tools like GameMaker) then you have to learn programming first. A proper object oriented language like C# might give you a better understanding of good techniques than hacking things together in JavaScript.

We used jQuery UI sliders and applied a custom styling.

Start with a very, very simple game first to gain experience. Try to learn the trade (software engineering). Read books. Go through tutorials.

#6

Thanks for the reply, @PatrickKlug! Me and @firebolt2012 will be sure to show you our game when it’s complete. We are already learning coding languages, and to answer the 2nd question I have more experience in HTML but it isn’t a very noticeable experience difference.

I am currently trying to learn two (three if you count CSS) coding languages, but I have planned to learn more over my career as a software engineer/developer.

I am learning on two websites and I will soon enough look for some books.