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515 PointsCan I learn how to make a game through treehouse?
I joined treehouse to learn how to program, and they have definitely went above and beyond my expectations. I have no programing experience aside from treehouse, and I have only been doing treehouse for 5 days. I'm currently doing Rails development, and I'm at the very beginning. I'm about halfway through the first section, "How to Make a Website". I'm enjoying it, and learning it, but I have almost virtually no need to make my own website. What I really want to do is make a game. I don't care what game I make, I just want to make a game, I will even make a game like Pong, I'm not that picky, I also have no intent, for at least a few years, for any of the games I make to be published. I have actually made a fully playable, and fun game. But this game is on paper. It is a 2d turn based strategy game, but as I said, I just want to make a game, I'm not going to be picky. My computer is windows, so that kind of puts apps out of the question. Can I learn how to make a game through treehouse? If so what language, or track should I take/use. If you think I'm getting way ahead of myself, and should just do web development until I've mastered that please tell me so. If you have any other advice or opinions please voice that too. Also if I can't learn how to make a game through treehouse, what methods should I use? I'm only 14, so college courses are out of the question for a few years. Thanks.
2 Answers
Michalis Efstathiou
11,180 Pointsyes you can, if you check around there are many courses on treehouse that involve making a game
you can even do the android courses, apps are programmed on desktops so your windows pc should be just fine for creating android apps
also check out udemy.com
they have both free and paid courses on creating games with many different languages
may I suggest looking into creating html5 games? html5 games are the future as they are cross platform compatible, they will play just as well on different browsers, operating systems and devices because they are built with html, css and javascript
Michalis Efstathiou
11,180 Pointsgeoff, how accurate is the simulator to the real thing? I have a windows phone so I cant really compare
Daniel Pillemer
515 PointsDaniel Pillemer
515 PointsOkay, thanks alot. Is there a way I can test android apps on my pc? For example, you can view your website after you make changes, can you do that with android on your pc?
Geoff Parsons
11,679 PointsGeoff Parsons
11,679 PointsDaniel Pillemer the Android development tools provide a simulator which is basically an Android device running in a window on your PC. You'll be able to interact with any apps you write without having to load them onto a device.
Daniel Pillemer
515 PointsDaniel Pillemer
515 PointsOkay, thanks :).