I am a software engineer and have been at my job for over two years now. Coding is not the issue where to get ideas about making a game is.

I want to make a 2d RPG game just something simple to start. Where I populate the world in a random map, I can move my guy, and have water/mountains in a 2.5d game.

Anyone have an idea where I can start? Not youtube yet because they just show you the code and don't explain the reason behind it very much.

Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?


But seriously, if you are a professional developer, I don't see why you would be coming to us asking where to look for answers. Try google? StackOverflow? Hell, Wikipedia?

What platform?

because we only have highly-trained personnel with non-biased opinions here

you should blog about the experience of trying to learn how to build games OP, then other people can find your blog and learn too!

What platform? I am creating this for the PC of course and I want to do something along the lines of Open World randomly generated where you can just walk around for now. Eventually I would like to add a few features:

Build a house
Randomly spawn bears
Be able to pick branches off trees

I just don't know where to start. The map sounds like an issue to generate a map that would take 5 minutes to walk from one side to another or how do other games generate their maps or are they pre-created like one giant map file? Anyone have any ideas??? Such as a free class that goes over basic game creation in java/c#/game engine, how to interact with the map, etc.

Thanks!

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Unreal Engine 4 just recently came out. You can subscribe to it for $19/mo +5% of revenue of you make any. It's the full engine. This will be your best bet. They have many tutorials to guide you on how.

I am actually interested in doing the same thing but I have little programming experience (programming experience is not even needed either to use UE4!). Just subscribed myself so I can play with it and just learn.