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need help to get in to games development

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Re: need help to get in to games development

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May 16th, 2008
Do you have any programming skills? If no: you should learn some. I personally recommend C++, but other people disagree and say Java or even VB is the way to go.

If you do know how to program, you could start by reading this thread. It has a lot of resources in it.

Because I'm not from England, I can't recommend any cources or education. But here in the Netherlands, we have courses that specialize in Game-Dev.

One word of advice: Don't expect to be programming Halo4 within the next few years. Game-dev is very very hard, even for good programmers. Your math should be very good to
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