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I want to make a game. Should I spend my time making the game, learning how to make the game, or playing games so I know how to make a game?
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>>746486050
Can't even get the image with the card in the frame?
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i dont have time to respond before page 10
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>>746486050
>>746488402
the answer in practice encompasses both learning and most importantly FINISHING the game simultaneously.

You should immediatelly start making games, interprete it as a fun activity. Download some engine like unity or godot or whatever, doesnt matter which, just do something.
Youre not going to immediatelly make your dream game that will sell a million copies. Even if you had the skills for it, your lack of experience making games would make it counter productive to start doing it immediatelly.

What youre gonna do instead is make a lot of minuscle tiny games and scale up. Start with some extremely basic 2d stuff for example, constantly looking up how to do the stuff you want to happen.
What can you do in a week, or a month, or however much time you wanna spend on that? for example my first game was a 5 minute long top down shooter with a single level.
You learn a lot in this process and can scale up over time and make bigger games. After a few months or a year or two passed, provided youre diligent, you understand a lot more and might be ready for spending 3-4 years making a truly huge great game.

But whats important is that you actually FINISH these tiny meme games. Not finish in the sense of making the vision 100% fully realized, but moreso being ready to be played, something you can play from start to finish, where the mechanics and ideas play out in practice. Thats how you can see your results and gauge if youre making an actually fun experience, and can tell how to improve. It also makes it way more stimulating and exciting.

Dont be one of these people immediatelly spending 6-12+ months working on something unfun that never becomes properly playable and then ends up dropping it.

For example, my first 'game' was a 5-minute-long top down shooter with only a single level and the graphics were all colored rectangles, circles, triangles etc.
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Just hire indians
or slavs if you wanna make a normal game
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>>746486050
>I want to make a game.
no you don't
if you truly wanted to make a game you would be working on it instead of asking retarded meaningless time-wasting questions, you are just procrastinating and delaying the inevitable
you will never start or finish your game because you lack the motivation and discipline (if you had them you wouldn't be here)
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>>746486050
>or playing games so I know how to make a game?
Not that one.
>>746490330
Not this one either



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