Making a game can be a lot of fun as well as rewarding. While making a game you do not only have fun but also you learn a lot.
What you can learn?
1) Well, most importantly you learn how to make a program (and especially the object oriented nature of modern programming languages);
2) Artificial intelligence! Yes that's correct, making a game allows you to learn artificial intelligence. And most importantly if you like robotics, then half of the work in learning that gets easy;
3) 3D Modelling! sounds great oh yes, you can learn 3D modelling as well, so that might be useful for a hardware guy (if you are one) to make and learn 3D printers (I wish, I would get chance to explain how it can be done in some other post..);
4) And last of all you "can" learn 3D game programming, however due to presence of lots game engines available these days (e.g. Unity) it is unlikely that you'd try to learn this unless you want to become a professional game designer.
So, I decided to learn the Unity game engine and guess what, I made my own game :
http://rosbotics.blogspot.in/2014/12/hello-world-from-unity.html
Although this is a learning stage so I decided to work on some 3D game as well. It was a lot of fun, I learn't about animation, 3D modelling as well as using scripts!
And last of all have your name on the show!
What you can learn?
1) Well, most importantly you learn how to make a program (and especially the object oriented nature of modern programming languages);
2) Artificial intelligence! Yes that's correct, making a game allows you to learn artificial intelligence. And most importantly if you like robotics, then half of the work in learning that gets easy;
3) 3D Modelling! sounds great oh yes, you can learn 3D modelling as well, so that might be useful for a hardware guy (if you are one) to make and learn 3D printers (I wish, I would get chance to explain how it can be done in some other post..);
4) And last of all you "can" learn 3D game programming, however due to presence of lots game engines available these days (e.g. Unity) it is unlikely that you'd try to learn this unless you want to become a professional game designer.
So, I decided to learn the Unity game engine and guess what, I made my own game :
http://rosbotics.blogspot.in/2014/12/hello-world-from-unity.html
Although this is a learning stage so I decided to work on some 3D game as well. It was a lot of fun, I learn't about animation, 3D modelling as well as using scripts!
And last of all have your name on the show!
