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1. Re: Artists/Animators turned Indie Game Designers - Who am I missing?

   

   Reply by blankslatejoe · Sep 2014 · Home› General Discussion

   Unreal Blueprints are kiiiiinnndd of like that. I don't think they are as accessible as say, UE3's kismets were though..but they are infinitely more powerful. As a primer for coding, many of the more abstract concepts (like object typecasting, complex object referencing, !=none checks, class vars vs. object of class vars,…

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   Reply by blankslatejoe · Sep 2014 · Home› General Discussion

   Hi Castor - I didn't have any coding experience prior to starting work on Tower of Guns. I was an environment/tech artist back at 38 Studios and prior to that worked at Ironlore Entertainment. I had to pick up Unrealscript from scratch for Tower of Guns, for which I did almost everything except music--however the game does…

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   Reply by Muzzoid · Sep 2014 · Home› General Discussion

   Thanks Xoliul. Though not sure i qualify as Kickball was such a small game haha :P. But yeah i did code it myself. Though i have a coder on the next project, i found learning to code has improved my design skills substantially, as well as understanding where i can cut corners in the art for the most impact. It was a really…

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   Topic by CastorPT · Sep 2014 · Home› General Discussion

   Hi, I'm trying to gather a list of game developers that were Artists/Animators (on the creative side without much coding knowledge) and decided to go independent and make their own videgame, learning to code/script in the process.(As opposed to most indie developers that were coders from start). I'm looking for projects…

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   Reply by CastorPT · Sep 2014 · Home› General Discussion

   Thanks for the replies! Just to be clear, I'm looking for artist/animators (or even someone that didn't have any coding background) and decided to create his own game and be forced to learn coding/scripting while also in charge of the Design, similar to people like Jonathan Blow, Christ Hecker or Lucas Pope. Is this the…

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   Reply by slipsius · Sep 2014 · Home› General Discussion

   I've been thinking about this a lot lately, and done a bunch of research into the matter. While UDK is definitely an artist friendly way of going about it, Construct 2, I think, is probably better for rapid prototyping. It also helps you learn the logic behind a lot of stuff, so when you do finally pick up coding, you know…

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   Reply by bugo · Sep 2014 · Home› General Discussion

   Hey Thanks SanderDL, I'm not a coder tho, even tho I script, I don't do all code. All the art is mine tho, that game is our first attempt. Here's our 2nd one still in development: [ame=" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEKorfMMFY0"]Epic Dragons - Gameplay Trailer - Sept 2014 - YouTube[/ame] You can also play our beta level…