What Game Got You Into Development? Thread

Is there a certain game/franchise that convinced you being a developer is the path for you?

It's tough to say cause I chose the path of developer after I discovered my talent from making mods/maps/levels for multiple games instead of from playing certain game

Anyways, the games I made levels for was Jazz Jack Rabbit 2, for maps, it was Heretic 2 and for mods it was Beats of Rage

Mine was the Metal Gear Solid series. I was amazed on how Kojima bridged memorable cinematics and fantastic gameplay together to create such masterpieces that inspired me to create games similar to his vision

I guess I am very much inspired and inspirated by the The Elder Scrolls Oblivion/Skyrim, Warrior Kings Battles (and olf but gold, forgotten game) and the Gothic series.

Doom,Duke Nukem 3D,and those games like it which had level editing capabilities. Ordinary morals now had the tools to create there own content, something almost unheard of previously. This is what got me really interested in making games!

solid_snake17 wrote:

Mine was the Metal Gear Solid series. I was amazed on how Kojima bridged memorable cinematics and fantastic gameplay together to create such masterpieces that inspired me to create games similar to his vision

You've got a very appropriate username then!

I like the League of Legends game. Almost all free time I spend on it. Recently I came across Cheap unranked lol accounts I want to buy one account, what do you think?

Defense Grid- the AWAKENING. PLAY ITTTT!

its the best 3d tower defense game (besides the second one)

also high up on on the list is Space Run and Space Run Galaxy

I have a friend that did an entire TD game for android on his own (3d using unity) so I want to follow suit. If you look up Brackeys on youtube it shows all the instructions to create one. He started with that, then learned to code his own additions to that basic framework. The guy who does the Brackeys videos is a really good instructor and the lessons are very to-the-point.

Uprising 2 Lead and Destroy

I can't credit any particular game for my career choice. I've played games since I was five, and toyed around with modding long before I even realized that you could actually WORK with this! (My very first modding experience was editing Doom maps when I was like 10 years old - with some help from my dad of course)

I want to believe that's it's a combination of every game that I have ever played, and I tend to think that it's similar for other devs. I have this general passion for understanding games and for making the thing I wanna make. Taking in account the Butterfly Effect, it's possible that everyone is in a similar situation.

Warcraft II and Duke Nukem 3D level editors got me into game development. Recreating Tony Montana's mansion in the Duke Nukem editor is still one of my favorite game development memories.

For me it was Battle For Middle Earth and to a lesser extent Delta Force 2 where I was building MP maps lol

Every game that pissed me off. Lineage 1, 2 and WoW mostly. I said it for years, "I could do better" or "I would fix that" or "Stop making it so damn easy!". Time to prove it.

Initially, it was a cool hobby, ,then I decided to make a game for my son and that morphed into making a commercial project. LOL

Ha, as an indie developer I feel a bit of a cook who tries to bring out a gourmet dish with 3-4 leftover ingredients that one has still in the fridge..

- "The Patrician", a very old but more so charming game with an awesome soundtrack and the aim to trade and become rich and powerful. I recently felt like playing it again and thought, why are getting professional games bigger and bigger but they don't feel as deep?

- my own career of being a professional Economist and, perhaps, would could I do to improve the trading aspect of a game such as The Patrician to be more real, for example, adding a stock market, news and real price movements.

- then there was Heroes of Might and Magic III with one of the best RPG skill systems.. That's real meat that gives you the calories to work hard!

and yea, one more thing, my very early career as e-Sport pioneer and the idea of balancing a game just right to provide optimal excitement to passionate player when battling against the AI while not getting too bored with repetitive tasks, such as, "Deliver 10 wolfskins to Joe the trader! And now, deliver 15 wolfskins to Joe the trader!" Can't leave out the spice for my dish in the indie kitchen!

Bon appetit!

Hands down, Neverwinter Nights is what did it for me. Granted the first (godawful) mods I ever released were for Oblivion, but NWN was the first time I got so engaged in a project that I actually taught myself the fundamentals of coding just to see it come together. More than 15 years later and I still can't stop myself from opening the Aurora Toolset for a few hours.

Multiple titles actually. In the first place Quake1 (mapping, QuakeC), then Half-Life1 and Deus-Ex1.

Half life led me to be a 3D artist
but the boom of indie horror games around 2012 is what made me want to pursue game development!

Not one single title but I'm of enough years to remember Galaxian, Sinistar, Pleiades and all those other ancient ones. Seeing gaming consoles evolve from Atari to Sega to PlayStation and X box has always fascinated me. Never envisaged I would on one day be making games. Started off dicking around with 3d modelling then ended up trying out Unity, then 5 games later I'm questioning my decisions and my sanity

A bunch of rpg maker games on a magazine CD. The idea that I could make my own game seemed impossible before. This was in the early 2000s.

RPG Maker games for me as well! In particular RPG Maker fan games of Hetalia! I was always a fan of RPGs, and when I found out that there is an easy to use engine that allows one to make them, I was all onboard!

Diablo 1. I modded it by reverse engineering. Then I learned c.

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While I have played about 700 to 800 games since late 1981 and game design wasn't my first choice, which was animation and drawing. I got to say it was Super Mario 64 and Starfox 64 made me appreciate the 3d genre both first person and third person for the first time and to be immerse within the environment. The experience left a great impression on me in becoming a game developer, and wanting to create a world that value the game play to be challenging, fun, and engaging.

The experience left a great impression on me in becoming a game developer, and wanting to create a world that value the game play to be challenging, fun, and engaging.

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