How to get started in game development

Video game development is the process of creating a video game. The effort is undertaken by a game developer, who may range from a single person to an international team dispersed across the globe.
 Video game makers are the creative masters behind today's video games. Making video games requires many different talents, such as the visual imagination of an artist and the storytelling skills of an author. Finally, video game creators must possess the technical computer programming skills necessary to make their vision of a reality, at least in cyberspace.

How much time does a game take to develop

  The average casual game probably takes 2–6 months to make, while the typical AAA game averages 18–36 months (with the biggest titles taking as long as 5 years to develop).

Things you should know to create a game


If you want to know how to make games, you must understand what you have to know to make a successful game:

1. Technology
   1. Game engine (Unity, Unreal, etc etc)
   2. Programming languages (C#, C++, Swift etc)
      1. Data structure
      2. Algorithm
      3. Design pattern
      4. OOP: Object oriented programming
      5. Multithreading
      6. Network communications
      7. State machine
      8. Etc Etc
2. Physics (mostly integrated into the game engine but it’s always good to have some basics)
3. Marketing: Without this, your game is worthless because nobody will know about it
   1. Utilize social networking sites
   2. Market your game
   3. Create content to share (video , screenshot, etc)
   4. Hot to sell your game
   5. Gamification
   6. Etc Etc
4. Graphics: This is what the user sees
5. Team Management
6. Project Management
7. Game Design         

Resources to start to study how to make games:  

If you want to learn how to make games, you need to find the best places where to study your favorite topics.

Here is a collection of the best books related to the game development industries.
Other than books, you can also use:

1. Game engine forums (Unity forum, Unreal forum)
2. Reddit is full of game development communities with a lot of topics related to the game development industry
3. Paid or free course: Websites like Coursera or Udemy for example, are full of free courses that you can follow
4. Youtube free tutorials

 Is it hard to become a game developer 

It is not hard to develop a game. Any 10-year-old can download GameMaker, go through the tutorials, and develop a game. However, becoming a professional game developer is difficult. Making a game that people will actually pay money for requires skills, hard work, and more than a little luck. 

 What is the use of the game engine  

A game engine lays the software framework to build and create video games. They provide features from animation to artificial intelligence. Game engines are responsible for rendering graphics, collision detection, memory management, and many more options.

These are the some game engines for beginners and also best:

• AppGameKit – For dedicated creators.
• GameGuru – The FPS Template Solution.
• GameMaker Studio 2 – The hit maker.
• CopperCube 5 – The Lightweight 3D Engine.
• Unity 3D – The Serious Gamedev platform.
• Unreal Engine – The best AAA graphics.

You need an "engine" because writing software starts with programming, and programming is giving the computer instructions. There are a lot of instructions that there's no need to specify over and over again these days, for really basic things such as how to access the hard drive and draw to the screen, and so we have the "operating system", eg. "Windows", and we write our program to use the features of Windows to save us time and get on with creating good software.

The same thing happens with games. A game is a specific type of software, and to make a game, there's a lot of things we don't need to write again from the ground up, as this takes years of development to get something stable - things like drawing 3D graphics, collision, loading 3D models, pictures, sounds, music, etc. from the hard drive. And so we can use a "Game Engine" to save us time and get on with creating good games.

On which programming languages video games are written and how it works  

The two most common languages for game designers to learn are C++ and Java, although other languages are popular (such as C# for Unity). Another type of programming you may hear referred to is scripting, but that essentially comes down to a type of systems programming.Typically, the more advanced the game in terms of performance and graphics, the more advanced the code. Programs for making video games generally work by automatically entering code in response to simple commands. But writing code from scratch, while more cumbersome, usually results in a finer, more customized product.