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Good day! My name is Nikolay and I want to tell my story and share my little experience in developing my first game. Where did I start and what difficulties I had to overcome on the way of development. The article is aimed at those who are starting, thinking about starting or already developing their first game. What for? Because at the stage of development of my first game, I myself read articles about a similar experience more than once, after reading which I "wound snot on my fist" and continued development further. From idea to release to the store.
Attention! The article turned out to be long, so stock up on tea! If you do not want to read for a long time, then an extract from the tips at the ends of the article.
How it all began
It was the third year of the university
By education I am a sailor, however, after the first voyage, I realized that the prospect of being on the "land" for 6 months a year did not please me, even though the salaries in this industry do not offend anyone.
Choice of direction
There was an urgent need to find a "business" that would bring pleasure, not have to break away from the modern world for a long time and have financial prosperity in the future comparable to my profession by education. The end of the 4th year of university and my choice fell on the IT industry, namely a python developer. Having devoted 2 weeks of theory, in particular the technical documentation of the language, I began to develop logic and perform tasks every day for six months, until at the end of December 2018 I discovered gamedev.
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The game was first published on December 2, 2019, and it was 10 months of development. Then I was forced to repay my debt to my homeland. I served in the army until December 2, 2020. After demobilization, I immediately continued development. And on February 4, 2021 , after "12 months" of development, I released the project.
If you are interested in looking at the result of my work, then you can find it in the Google Play Market.
Game name - Starlake