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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Video Games > Awful Summer Game Jam 2017 | It's the Facebook of Game Jams
 
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Luggage
Aug 29, 2009
 I've worked my way through most of a book about making games with ActionScript 3.0 before and also did about a dozen tutorial games in C++ a few years back. I'm pretty much an enthusiast newbie coder and would like to use my free July to participate. I am not married to any platform or language. What's a good and free framework/language/library to spend the next 1-2 weeks learning to have a decent basis to stumble myself through a basic game prototype for this jam? I'm not adverse to math, but unless it is ridiculously simple, I'd rather forego 3D for 2D.

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Luggage
Aug 29, 2009

Heran Bago posted:

Unreal Engine 4. :getin:

My first programming language was also Actionscript. Unreal has a visual block-and-spaghetti-based programming language that's fun, or you can go with C++. It has decent built-in tutorials and tons of great ones online. It can be used for 2D or 3D, but is mostly 3D. It's also free now.

Thanks, mate. I'll check it out. Time to get moving.

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Luggage
Aug 29, 2009

Heran Bago posted:

Unreal Engine 4. :getin:

My first programming language was also Actionscript. Unreal has a visual block-and-spaghetti-based programming language that's fun, or you can go with C++. It has decent built-in tutorials and tons of great ones online. It can be used for 2D or 3D, but is mostly 3D. It's also free now.
One more on that recommendation, from what I see Unreal Engine is exclusively for 3D stuff. I am definitely looking towards 2D as a beginner. Is this possible with Unreal Engine? And since they get compared a lot, how easy is 2D stuff with Unity?

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Luggage
Aug 29, 2009

Chernabog posted:

You can work in Unity in 3D or 2D without much difference and there are tutorials on basically everything.
Thank you sir. Think I will invest 10 bucks into a Udemy course for one of the combinations (Unity & C# or Unreal & C++), as they are both dirt cheap atm.

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