Originally Posted by wtf4096

Well, if you want to learn engine programming, there`s no better way than to get your hands dirty working on your first game and working on the engine at the same time. Of course, you can`t get all of your class design correctly the first time, since you have no idea what should be in such an engine. And not even second/third time. But you`ll learn a lot along the way, if your motivation is strong.

However, if creating actual game is more important to you, don`ty waste time reinventing the wheel and just use any of the available free engines (Irrlicht, ogre, ...).

JUst be prepared that things go on slowly at the beginning and you might be unhappy if you spend 3-4 weekends and there`s barely something worth talking about. That`s the unfortunate truth about gamedev - it`s extremely time-consuming and slow compared to regular SW.


Although I`m currently not in gamedev industry anymore, I still devote hefty chunk of my free time to 3D programming. You can`t just throw away those many years of engine programming, so it seems...