I want to create games

As a philosophy major who tries hard to get some dreams come true, I say it still has been a rough journey for me. Having a personal idea you do not want to share, and try to make them true is very hard. 

so why did I go solo?

first, I want things not complicated, I want my idea to be controlled and I hate explaining things to other fellows because I’am not good at it.

second, I just want to call this my game, I want a player, playing my game to think, yeah, I am inside a man’s brain here.

third, let me NOT eat my pride, I just want to create a game and be put in line with those people who created games on their own.

is it hard to be alone? 

yes it is very hard, but nevertheless it is very rewarding.

I remembered that I just started creating games about the last 2 weeks of April, the start of summer break (for me, yey!). It was when then I stumbled upon Game engine which promised to create me a game in less than weeks (it was a lie). In that one week, I have tried learned several game engines, dived into tutorials for a first game and watched hours of YouTube. A day goes by and I hunger that if it was this easy to create games, i would have published too many titles a month later (but I didn't). Nope, i fell in a slump, shifting and changing engines one after another, learning each one. By now, I definitely could give you a great review of each (beginner, non-programmer and free) game engines. Today, I still shift from game engines, but I think I would stay with what I use today: GDevelop, Unity, Blender, Visual Basic and Inkscape.

I also had this philosophy that when I create games, I promise not to spend even a dime creating a game, meaning no buying assets (I don’t get either from those who upload free). So expect me to go for free stuff, or those who has free stuff at least or really create my own stuff.

Just to relate with you, before I started or even conceived the idea of me programming, i did not know any (computer) languages, a non programmer, beginner, non-artist but an aspirant.

I had this idea of creating an app about a school events planner which featured blah,blah,blah (let me discuss that idea sometime) and because I am an avid apple fan, I wanted to launch the app (when completed) to the apple app store but then I found that you can only  code apps for apple if you own a mac, and the IDE (integrated development environment #google) which is Swift (also only available on a mac). 

I had no other choice, with my laptop running windows, I can only choose between writing an android app or a windows app. Well, I choose the android because:

first, I just bought an android phone (replacing my old iPhone)

second, I have a laptop

third, there are more android users than windows in terms of smart phones, thus a larger audience for my app. (and if it comes to point, sales HAHAHA!)

When I searched how to create an android app, I found out that they recently (back then) released a new IDE called “Android Studio” which was a complete package for creating apps for android devices. It also came with AVD’s (Android Virtual Devices. These are like emulators which you can run in your PC to mimic a android phone, some are famous like “Blue Stacks” and “Geny Motion”).

So much for that, I started using it in the hope of creating my app. :)

Read more about android studio here:

I displayed the photo of the current laptop I am using to let you know that I am only working with a laptop :) 

This is a Lenovo yoga pad 2, full touch-screen display with a i3 core (because it was only given to me as a gift and I am really incapable of buying my own so...) 

Based from the reviews I searched, the laptop is good, not only because it can yoga (bend 360) but you can actually draw on it using stylus if you want to.