How I Taught Myself to Make Video Games

interact with the gamehow does the graphic user interface work if there is onewhat's the control scheme and then some things thatindie game developers don't seem to think about a lot is the psychologythe user playing the game so I'd like to use a game as an example for thislike you is League of Legends produced by Riot Gamesis a competitive multiplayer game and in 2013rankings me 624 million dollarsof %uh selling skins so I was lucky enough to be a close beta player forLeague of Legendsbut one thing I can say about that was League of Legends was not a very goodteamduring the closed beta the graphics were very poorthe gameplay was really slow paced and the worst somany bugs I can even store to list them off the top of my headbut here's a legal edge instagood first it was entirely by accident to legalengineswas really good capturing a competitive spiritit just happened to be the right environment we could really get into thegameand you could play with your friends and you're talking over Skype arestrategizingand trying to figure out how to beat any team so I believe that's what hasallowedthe alleged become such a popular game see their competitors have bettergraphicsbetter characters better game playing a lot of them have better animationsbetter sound effectsbut none of them make that competitive spirit as easily accessible to theaverage personas Ray games has made in their game which brings us to our final topicthe first game I am for me I made this gamelate Middle School like all that weight loss simulatorthe idea was if you run on the treadmills long enough without fallingyour character will eventually become skinnierand while that's a little bit humorous it's not a very exciting promise for agamethe game lacked a ton of polishit's just another infinite runner with words graphicsbut after lot of practicing and after a lot of polishingbecause I never give up I was able to produce better games in the futureand today I'm quite confident in my programming game development abilitiesso that's my story and if you have a similar story or even a vastly differentstory i'd love to hear it in the comments sectionbelow this video for those of you who are new to this channelI have programming in game development tutorials out at least three times perweekall my contacts is of course free it takes a couple hours per each videotogetherso if you like this video you know please leave your feedbackor share the video otherwise subscribe for future updatestheme