Comments on: How You Ended Up Into Making Games

By: Tobias Scheuer

Tobias Scheuer — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 07:06:47 +0000

Being a professional software developer, I started working on a game about 2.5 years ago. The reason is quite simple: I really fell in love with the Impressions Games City Building Series, including titles like Caesar III and Pharaoh, and I want to see more games along these lines. There are only few studios that make city builders these days, and they all go along different lines, so I had to start doing this myself…

By: Juuso Hietalahti

Juuso Hietalahti — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 19:31:22 +0000

Heh, “little office guy who code freaking reports over and over again” :D

By: Lachhh

Lachhh — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 16:18:05 +0000

When I first went to computer science school, I knew nobody and the first guy who talk to me asked me the geekiest way : “Do you have some video games ?” even before asking my name. After that I sweared to myself that I wouldn’t work in video games industry.

Then, I finished university and and did not knew if I would continue in computer science, even if it was I passion for me, I didn’t want to finished being the little office guy who code freaking reports over and over again.

Then, I passed a video game course and the story began. I found that it was the only way I could mix science and art.

Now, I made have my own video games company and living my best moments of my life.

So here’s my story :D

By: BC

BC — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 19:19:54 +0000

AMOS on the Amiga. Loved it.

By: Juuso Hietalahti

Juuso Hietalahti — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:09:50 +0000

Aymes… :)

Fun stories people!

By: Iain Key

Iain Key — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:56:21 +0000

Ah… those were the days, trying to code in basic on my first computer a second-hand Atari 400 with it’s membrane keyboard, which then overheated and the chips blew after a few years!

Then migrated to Atari 800XL -> Atari 520 STFM -> PC

By: Indiepath

Indiepath — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:57:07 +0000

Vic20 : 6502ASM

What started me? Some space invader game by Imagine Software (I think).

Imagine – Play the game ;)

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:02:04 +0000

Not a long time ago, I made a “Who wants to be a millionaire” quiz game in VB6. That would be my first game related development.

By: Søren

Søren — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 01:18:35 +0000

@Aymes nice one man :D
I first tried making a computer game as part of a computer science class. Had no idea what i was doing, but ended up being an ok game nonetheless… Still waiting on my first blockbuster, thou

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:07:51 +0000

I decided i wanted to make games when i first played Lost Vikings on my fist computer ( a 386, my second one was a P4 ).
I loved that game and then and there, after playing that game for some hours I decided that I would like to make games as awesome as that one.
It had the greatest influence on my life.
That is the impulse that drove me to choose the path of game programming.