How I went from zero to making a trending Steam game about L.S.D. in less than a year
MY FIRST GAME As soon as I started making my first little 2d games following the course, it struck me how much fun I was having and how much I loved expressing my creativity with game development (a year later I can say that I still feel the same way). A year ago the world didn't make sense to me. S.
BACKGROUND
April 2020. The world is shocked due to the outburst of the Corona Virus pandemic. Many Countries have imposed a generalised lockdown in order to prevent the spread of the disease, strongly suggesting citizens to not leave their homes unless strictly necessary.
This may seem like the beginning of a dystopian sci-fi novel, but it's actually the situation I found myself in almost a year ago, when I first started my game development journey.
When I first bought the "Complete C# Unity Game Developer 2D" course by GameDev.tv I didn't know what to expect from it. I was (and still am) an Italian law student, I had never heard of Unity and I had never written a line of code in my entire life. I just had a lot of free time because of the lockdown and I was looking for something productive to do that also allowed me to take my mind off the craziness of what was going on in the world.
MY FIRST GAME
As soon as I started making my first little 2d games following the course, it struck me how much fun I was having and how much I loved expressing my creativity with game development (a year later I can say that I still feel the same way).
In my opinion one of the most fun sections of the 2D course was the one dedicated to the creation of a "space shooter" game. I diligently followed the instructions by the great teacher Rick Davidson but I decided to add a little twist to the project: instead of spaceships and lasers my game was going to have poker cards.
Using the mechanics of the traditional 2D space shooters I created a game where the goal was not destroying other spaceships, but shooting cards towards each other to make "blackjack", which, of course, adds 21 points to your score. This is how I came up with my first game, that for obvious reasons I called "Blackjack Shooter". It is still available on the Play Store.
I even made a trailer for the game! Link of the gameIn the months following the release of Blackjack Shooter I kept working really hard on my game development skills with others courses by GameDev.tv, such as "Complete C# Unity Game Developer 3D", "RPG Core Combat Creator: Learn Intermediate Unity C#" and "Unity Multiplayer: Intermediate C# Coding". I also kept creating new games, which you can find on my itch.io and Play Store page. I am very proud of how I finished almost every project I started during these months.
"Planet Plane" Link of the game
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