Quote:I was navigating dolphin code's page, and I saw a graph that shows that dolphin has more than only pure C/C++ language (The pizza graph shows the percentages of the languages used in Dolphin). Well, they are???
Quote:Edited. Now you'll be able to understand the second question.
Nope. Still doesn't make sense. Especially "Well, they are?".
Quote:Just right now, according for what you said, I wanna see how they make the games, hehe.
The same way you make any software. Writing code and designing data.
Quote:Hmmm... I am switching from physics to informatics next year, I plan to go for a master degree with some AI stuff. I noticed C++ isn't among the obligatory courses, and most of my free ones now went to math and physics... should I take C++ as an extra course earlier? Or else I won't learn it untill year 4.
I would do it if I were you.
Quote:Yeah, the biggest problem people trying to get into the business is getting the right publisher-developer contract to get into.
There is first party developer which involves the publishers owning the developer e.g nintendo, they have their own consoles and the games are developed by their own developers under their own trademark name
The second party developers who are independent but still have to sign a contract with the publisher for the exclusive right to publish their titles
Finally the third party developers, which is the most common and almost everybody starts with, they sign contracts with publishers only on a per-game basis and they usually release on multiple platforms as they have more freedom and have no constraints to one particular publisher however you'll have to always be in search for your next project and the time-span between projects could be relatively long leading to the studio dropping employees, paycuts, etc.
Its gonna be a tough ride but as long as you can hang in there you'll eventually make it.
They ALL suck. Your chances of ever having a good job if you go into the video game development industry is less than 0.1%. The industry is 99.9% shitty jobs no matter who you're working for.
Quote:Learning another language first might also be worth a tought. Python is great, and will give you nice results much quicker than C++. Once you got the idea what good program code should look like, learning other languages gets a lot easier. C++ is a mess in many places and is not a good language to start programming with, in my opinion.
But nobody uses python for game development.
Really he should be focusing on learning popular frameworks/APIs like Shonumi said.
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-Mark Antony