User:CallumPoole/My programming and game development history

Long ass time ago, unknown dates

Learnt basic HTML
Played around with Game Maker
Played around with Scratch
Made a lengthy game in Game Maker
- It was a plan-view game where you explored and kept upgrading your sword length and unlocking more doors to explore more locations.
Played around with FPS Creator
Played around with Unreal Development Kit (UDK)

Made a basic game idea with Game Maker called: OMFG Assassin
- It was an assassin game where you had to kill everyone in the level with melee combat (insta-kill) without being in sight.
- Only 3 levels were developed as Game Maker is tedious
Learnt all about binary :D
Learnt basic CSS
Learnt my first programming language: Visual Basic.Net
Started an AQA A-level computing course (along with AQA A-level Mathematics which was also useful).
Used VB.NET programming to make a 4-player space-ship shooting game using form controls (not the best way to make games but oh well)
- The code was awful, I had just learnt about programming and didn't know you could make procedure lol :/
  - A lot of duplicate code :/

Remade the game slime soccer with VB.NET programming (again with form controls) with two user inputs.
- Ball physics were a little bit broken.
Rename the game for a second time, this time with VB.NET and OpenTK
- Didn't bother implementing the ball physics as I got distracted by another project:
Made a simple first-person and thrid-person and bird's-eye view (could switch between) game with VB.NET and OpenTK
- This game allowed you to swap between a sword and a bow
  - Of which you could block both with right mouse button.
  - The arrow could be drawn back, the animation was created but there was no arrow.
  - Additionally you could jump, but there was no collision detection.
Started learning the languages: C++ and Java
Bought books on OpenGL and DirectX which really didn't help :/
Followed a 2D game development series in Java up to episode 14

Started learning how to use GLUT with OpenGL in C++.
- I then started using this to learn about textures and lighting
Realised that I kinda knew c#.net from my combined knowledge of the .Net Framework and C++. In the process of learning the things that are unique to c#.
Started looking to PHP and Javascript
Started using the Three.js Javascript library.
Started using Unity to make a few projects:
- Single player self-pong (pong batterns on all four sides of the screen, your mouse controls all of them)
- Hang-gliding simulator (very basic, you just glide from a high elevation to a lower elevation through many scenery cubes.
Made a sandwich website for University coursework using HTML, CSS and Javascript.
Made a one button game for University coursework using Unity, based around the theme of stationery.