Personal projects

butcherster · 7 Aug 2015 at 09:25

I'm sure there's quite a few programmers here judging from the replies on other threads.

I've been a .NET and front end dev for many years now, but have never been able to follow through on any personal projects and get them to release.

What personal projects do people have? I'm struggling for new ideas but want to make something useful around gaming, streams, twitch etc...

Smit · 7 Aug 2015 at 15:38

Used to be a thread where people posted what they were working on but hasn't been updated in a while

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18636353

I'm just trying to work on a simple 2D platform game, haven't really got any further than messing around with libgdx and overlap2d so far.

altich88 · 15 Aug 2015 at 09:46

I muck around with 2D desktop games a bit.

Best advice I could give would be to keep the first 'release' very simple to increase the motivation and likelihood of finishing it.

I never seem to finish anything if it's not fairly well planned out, too.

In the case of a game, don't even make a single level straight away, just make a tech demo with a moving character and maybe a single room for example. Add simple intro/menu/paused screens and work out a simple state machine for transitioning from one to another.

mid_gen · 15 Aug 2015 at 09:51

I'm doing some stuff in UE4 at the moment, need to get my devlog updated and I'll post

xbenjiiman · 15 Aug 2015 at 15:41

My git is full of unfinished projects. I should follow through on them really.

Currently enjoying doing canvas work in JavaScript, brushing up on my math skills. In the middle of a tower defence game, which uses an A* search algorithm.

Scotty123 · 16 Aug 2015 at 03:06

A launcher and server related stuff for an Arma life community. Php, c# and mysql mainly. Good practice at those and useful.

Also c++ stuff in UE, although the Arma stuff is keeping me busy at the moment with the mod release date not far off. Unfortunately Arma uses its own sqf scripting language which is not useful outside of Arma. So I'm always in two minds about bothering with that aspect

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Mid_gen, I did try to pm you, seems I can't

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Trucamo · 16 Aug 2015 at 19:12

I've just started a new project using the Paradox game engine, I never liked Unity, but am enjoying this much more. It also means I can start using the new C# 6 goodies