Roadmap To Becoming a Game Developer in 2022
Are you Planning on becoming a Game Developer? But, Don’t know where to start? Don’t worry my friend because in this blog I am going to be covering the resources for you to become a Game Developer in 2022.
ROADMAP
PROGRAMMING AND GAME ENGINE:
First of all to become a game developer you need to know how to write code. For that, you need to learn C# (C sharp). This language is mainly used in game development.
The next thing I am going to be talking about is one of the most important pieces of tech that you should be familiar with as a game developer. I am talking about the “GAME ENGINE”.
A game engine is a software framework primarily designed for the development of video games, and generally includes relevant libraries and support programs. The “engine” terminology is similar to the term “software engine” used in the software industry.
As for the game engine, you can use “UNITY” which can be used to create games for platforms like PC, Playstation along with Android, IOS as well as AR/VR.
Below are the resources needed for programming and game engine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gB1F9G0JXOo
https://www.udemy.com/course/unitycourse/
https://www.udemy.com/course/unitycourse2/
https://www.udemy.com/course/unity-mobile/
https://www.udemy.com/course/build-30-mini-virtual-reality-games-in-unity-3d-from-scratch/
https://www.udemy.com/course/develop-augmented-reality-book-ar-business-card-with-unity/
ANIMATION
Next, you will be working on the animation. If programming and making things work is one thing then this is another. You need to know how to animate as all the games have animation, it makes a game look good with all the graphics added and they need to have them like obviously!!
Below are the resources for animation:
Blender:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MF1qEhBSfq4&list=PLa1F2ddGya_-UvuAqHAksYnB0qL9yWDO6
https://www.udemy.com/course/blendertutorial/
Other Softwares: (Good to have)
Planning software Trello: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sC6UwpVEEE0
Image editing — Photoshop or gimp(free)
Photoshop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyR_uYsRdPs
Video editing: Premier pro or shotcut(free) or davinci resolve(free)
Premier pro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfPIp-G1bpY
Vector image creation: Adobe Illustrator or inkscape(free)
Illustrator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib8UBwu3yGA
Sound Audacity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXoGmyzNZOY&list=PLqazFFzUAPc7XJjOcH4iPDoIeFHA_eyKh
Pixel art — aseprite or piskel (free)
Aseprite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51u9ZgrEThg&list=PLmac3HPrav-9UWt-ahViIZxpyQxJ2wPSH
That is it for the roadmap. I am going to be sharing some extra resources that may be helpful for you guys.
Some other useful resources:
https://mammothinteractive.com
https://www.udemy.com/user/unity-technologies/
https://www.udemy.com/user/fahirmehovic2/
https://www.pluralsight.com for unity
https://hackdesign.org for 3d designing
https://www.coursera.org/specializations/programming-unity-game-development
pixel art — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCpalUPlhMs
game dev planning — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7vZFiFLw-w
extra credit game dev yt — https://www.youtube.com/extracredits/videos
Game Dev channels to follow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAn2eWGzN78
I hope that this will be helpful for you guys. If I missed something, please share that and its resource in the comments, it will be much appreciated as it.
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