A SpriteKit Developer Tries Unity For A Year

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I'm a hobby game developer and that gives me a lot of flexibility in what and how I learn to code, but it does also mean that I'm not spending a lot of time learning as someone who's doing this full time.
That said - this week I want to share a story to help inspire other new game developers out there. While I know this story will be applicable to other hobbyists like myself, I think many aspiring professionals could also get some useful ideas from it.
#gamedev #unity #indiedev
Chapters
0:00 - GameDEV's Not A Straight Line
0:23 - Why I started learning game dev
1:26 - The Breakthrough
2:54 - When I Went Back to Swift
The story is essential in that after years of making very little progress in SpriteKit I was given a Udemy course on game development for Unity. This course not only taught me a new language (C#) a new platform for development (Unity) but it also gave me some valuable insight into the general concepts of game design and structuring your game development.
When I ultimately went back to SpriteKit to develop ZER0ED I was faster, more organized, and more committed to finishing the project than I'd ever been in the past. It just goes to show you sometimes a change of scenery can be a great thing to help get that inspiration going.
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[@John-Dav]

What about you? Have you had any big detours in your game dev journey? What happened - how did it affect your outlook on game development?

[@furkannarin2844]

remove the music or lower the volume

[@John-Dav]

Thanks for the feedback. Always trying to improve my videos :)

[@hanochkurian5933]

Came from your MKBHD tweet comment
Great video 👍

[@John-Dav]

Awesome! Thanks for stopping by

[@baldpixel4797]

Me too lol

[@andreagrumpeenlate5813]

That’s interesting! I’ve also dived into SpriteKit but now I want to try Unity out.
(May I ask how that course is called, you seemed to have liked it, and there so many on Udemy that I’m lost…)

[@John-Dav]

Have fun learning Unity it's a great experience and you can really create some awesome games with it. The course my wife got me was called Complete C# Unity Game Developer 2D - it looks like they've kept it updated over the years so hopefully it's even better than when I took it back in 2017/18