On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> wrote:
Is this an excuse to deviate from game development?:-)
Hey @Wash, actually its game dev that got me onto SilverLight because of web platform, after seaching the internet for solutions. I've learnt a lot from game dev ( OOP ) and would highly recommend anyone going into programming to do so. I even realised that at some point I may end up creating a game engine whose code I could re-use on other games but this places limitations in future. Publishing games, paying serious graphics artists is another problem and the kind of competiton from developers out there, hatuna class. If someone has referred me to such information in the start, maybe I'd have re-considered. Outside there, companies, students in Universities are putting in serious time, effort and money into such projects, so given that I looked at the web option of simple games/social games which are nothing graphic intensive etc. And that defeats my challenge and learning curve. To learn a new framework is not easy given that the framework is inter-connected with various other frameworks so if you have any errors, you are stuck. Its a long road, in the process I get to learn about web dev too, something I've not covered over 10 years and is a big bonus for some of my web ideas/sites/portals can happen if time allows. Without correct mentoring, I can tell you it is impossible to know what want to do. In our comms and networks world etc we know what we want to and get it done. In development, it is a bit crazy unless you are working full time on some framework or projects. Who knows, when I get to the middle/end of Silverlight, I may just discover something else.This is the reality many developers face when they are at a cross road. What next is the biggest question? This time around am not setting any specific goals nor targets, have learnt from my other code learning journey. :-) Rgds. ( Me thots )