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I make games and this literally happened to me this morning (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by Road_Warrior_10@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

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Inspired by true events from this morning

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[-] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 months ago

I used to make mobile apps as a hobby and I still get the weekly report of my dwindling numbers.

[-] Disgracefulone@discuss.online 3 points 2 months ago

How do you get into this? Could you DM me the info and perhaps a good starting place? I can't work right now due to an injury and I'd love to look into this

[-] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

My experience is with iPhone (yeah yeah boo Apple).

Most of how I learned was just digging through Apple’s documentation, focusing on one goal at a time. How do I draw stuff to the screen? How do I handle touch inputs? How do I use the built in UI elements? How do I play sounds? How do I get GPS data? Things like that. I’d usually have an idea of a specific mini-project that would make use of a specific new tool.

Note that I already had some programming experience (although it wasn’t much) before I started teaching myself this way.

Here’s Apple’s website: https://developer.apple.com/develop/

Just start by downloading XCode and playing with one of their sample projects. SpriteKit is particularly easy to get started with and there’s a sample project for it. (I’m assuming you want to make something like a game. If you want to make more of a utility app, look up SwiftUI).

If you aren’t an ~~iPhone user~~ “Apple fanboy”, you can try this: https://developer.android.com/courses

Also many game engines (e.g. Godot, Unreal, ~~Unity~~) have support for both iOS and Android.