is there any particular system needed for development?

[FixupSellon]

I like making designs for buildings and city's and interiors which is pretty much why I like games like sims, minecraft, sim city and other similar games along with the none gaming 3d/cad design software, but although it confuses me as I'm no that intelligent for it lol I have been wanting for awhile to make games and over the last year apps for Mobile devices, just simple games really.

However it's all well and good downloading the tools like eclipse and adk or whatever it is, but one thing I never really looked at, is what would be a suitable computer system as some things you wouldn't be.able to do on just any old computer.

 

[JonJ678]

What sort of computer(s) makes sense for software development varies depending on what you're thinking of writing and how you're planning to test it.

At the simplest level, quite a lot of software development amounts to writing text files. That can be done on pretty much anything with a screen - I wrote quite a lot of code on a netbook a few years back.

Beyond just writing the code, at some point you'll want to run it. A faster computer does help here - the faster the computer, the sooner you find out whether things are working. Solid state drives are nice but not essential. If there's a lot of graphic design or video work required by the game, this will probably dominate the computer specification. Any computer with enough performance to handle video editing will be more than capable of building code.

If at some point you decide to support multiple platforms and/or want to automate running tests, it may be worth dedicating one or more computers to doing so. I haven't found that to be especially useful personally but a lot of software companies have a room full of build servers somewhere.

Without more specific questions that's about all that comes to mind I'm afraid. Whatever you used to post this thread can probably be used to make games