John Romero - How to Start Developing Video Games 

Peterplayingguitar me too

According to others he was a bit of an asshole and high on his own farts in the older days. But just a bit. :)

Wait until he makes you his bitch.

@@Goremachine He never approved that as a slogan.. infact.. he HATED IT!!! HE said it sounds GAY :)

He is a PURE GAME CREATOR!!!! He gets tarred with a brush that sees him as a LEVEL DESIGNER!!! The fact that hes programmed 100+ games in his life seems to go unnoticed.. not to mention he never made 1 penny from QUAKE!!! He stuck it out .. JUST for the joy of making games.. THATS FUCKING LEGENDARY!!!

2 Johns being together.

2 Jobs invented computers for us, 2 Johns invented games for us

Step two: dont do Daikatana

Step 3 : Don't be cocky

@@tiagobordin6580 step 5: Don't hire a bunch of Modders to develop your game

Not just games - anything you have an interest in - GET STARTED NOW!

Yes! Start immediately! Start at the very moment! Start yesterday! Go Go Go! :D (I'm sounding like I parody you but really I agree)

Dammit okay! I'm starting right here and right now... err, what was I gonna start again?

7 years later but JUST DO IT

That would be John Carmack, this John helped but Carmack laid the technical foundation :)

@@AL_Mir29241 Hence the name "Godfather", instead of "Father". ;-)

godfather of pc gaming

There's no doubting John Carmack is a legend, I've oft cited his work on the doom and quake engines as my inspiration. But now I'm older I can see that as impressive as those feats are? - doom would of been nothing without the gameplay polish, the influence and ideas, of John Romero. There were many games at the time that were also equally impressive technical feats, there were fully open worlds on the Amiga - albeit crippled by hardware of the day. Carmack is a genius that can plug technical concepts together like lego bricks - Romero is a genius that can bring that world alive. Let's face it - Carmack on his own? we'd never of gotten doom - we'd of gotten a beautiful box simulator.

@@JohnnyWednesday It's true, Carmack wouldn't have any started id without Romero. He would have probably just programmed some average games for softdisk with the engines he pioneered, and others would have seen what was possible and catch up, and then some other company would have taken full advantage of the technology with glorious game design.

you would never know lol

@@kezianaomi1839 why does my comment has so many voteups and why the fuck have i even wrote this comment LMFAO

@@MrHieronymusBosch What you said resonated with everyone lmao we all appreciate your comment

​@@kezianaomi1839 AAAAAAH NOW I REMEMBER LOL "luc lemay" from gorguts... that was my point lol...

​@Axion jes xD

the marketing was shit on Daikatana and it was Eidos' fault not Ion Storm's. Eidos overhyped the game and Romero being a perfectionist, he didn't want to release the game because it wasn't ready...

@@chaotic0726 no it's Romero's fault too, He didn't know how to guide his team properly, did terrible decisions as a Director and hired a bunch of modders to develop his game, not to mention he wanted the game to be on Quake II's engine instead of Quake I's because of Quake II's playable demo at E3 1997, he got easily impressed of Carmack's new engine and forced everyone to port their unfinished assets, programming and maps to a newer engine, but ID only agreed to give him the engine AFTER Quake II's release, a TERRIBLE DECISION, since that meant Daikatana wasn't going to be released at december 1997 like it was promised to, forcing eidos to waste more money than they should, which made they do nothing relevant between february and December because they knew they would only start developing Daikatana seriously at december, and when the engine finally was given to them... guess what, Romero and his team wanted to fucking die, because Quake II's engine wasn't even compatible with Quake I's, which again, forced them to basically scrap EVERYTHING they did on Quake I's engine, and start development AGAIN, this time on quake II's engine, even his team said it was a bad idea and that Daikatana could still be good without all the new improvements from Carmack's new engine, but Romero was too ambiguous, and would say in response "here at Ion Storm, Design is law!" then, the slap in the face: the wasted AN ENTIRE YEAR just learning the new engine and how to port some of the stuff they did to it, and when Daikatana was shown at E3 1999... it was too outdated and was even running with less frames on E3 demo... meanwhile Quake 3 was ALSO at E3... with a newer engine and even better graphics... oof TL;DR: Daikatana was a failure from both development team and publisher. It was Eidos Fault because they hired Romero based on his status as "the god of videogame design", which even the news would compare him to quentin tarantino or steven spielberg of videogame design, but even if romero was a really good, and I mean, REALLY GOOD, level designer and a creative person overall, he didn't have enough experience to actually guide a team or do smart decisions as a Director and leader of Ion Storm, which led to a bunch of unnecessary changes that only made Daikatana be delayed, and delayed... until it eventually was released and it was a flop also it was Ion Storm's fault because again: Romero was too ambiguous and did such bad decisions: most of the team of daikatana was made of modders instead of professionals, didn't know how to guide his team, and used his stupid philosophy that "Design > technology" to justify unnecessary changes that would just made Eidos waste way too much money than they actually wanted, and even ruin his own reputation.

@@naoaquieopatrickpatrick8565 sounds like from what you said here that Romero needed to know when to trust his team and listen to what they were saying and not just himself. I mean no disrespect to him at all he seems like a super nice guy but maybe he should have stayed on the Quake 1 engine and tried to maximize that engine to its full potential. Maybe then Daikatana could have been a really good game instead of a mediocre one. However I’m not a game developer so I can’t say for sure.

10 years is not a veteran.

@@zebunker hence the wink.... there' s always one!

@@zebunker 11 years is

i dont like corona haha

Ok Nicholas Cage. Just don't spend all your money at once like you always do! hehe :)

If youre using c++, text adventures would be perfect for that language.

@@nope1083 Or ADRIFT.

I'm in the middle of one currently.

yeah and if you have a proper way to resolve conflicts between each other

ikr lmao

...nor did the tool...

they got shafted actually

I think it changed names earlier in the year. It's named Solar 2D now.

they don't exist anymore. I guess I'd recommend gamemaker, godot, unity. also bitsy to just do something really quick

Great way to start. :)

If you can, build a team. Always look for opportunity.

and experience + balanced dedication = good

Hey its you again!

And pay with cash.

Nowadays making a new 3D Engine is pointless. You have Unity, Unreal, etc. all free to use and publish your game.

Well, you could say there no point in trying to make games at all since you can buy them already made. Unity and unreal won't work on my computer; also I can't afford the license. I looked into using JMonkeyEngine, but it seemed learning all the ins and outs wouldn't be that much easier than making my own. I'll probably keep dabbling on it in my spare time between other projects, just for fun, whether or not it ever gets done or used for anything. I'm not nearly as worried about the engine as the assets -- I find programming much easier than make models. Making the engine probably is pointless since for that reason, but a pre-made engine doesn't help me with that.

Modding minecraft itself isn't programming it's just installing files on a file.

@@BlackJar72 If Unity won't work on your computer you're going to have a hard time making games.

@@mtpstv94 Yeah, I know -- I, I'll have to get a better computer so I can use Unreal Engine, though Unity gets closer to working. For Unity it's mostly OS support, while for Unreal it's more a lack of hardware. But I have ideas for whenever I can get a good dev machine.

How's that turned out?

Nice, if wasn't you i didnt know. Really our pride! Though i'm learning Python.

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Greetings from Suriname

What's TC?

@@planetX15 Total Conversion. It's where every Sprite and texture in the game is changed along with weapons and existing weapon behaviours

@@unfathomable3434 So TC Is "better" than the original?

@@planetX15 no. Its basically making a different game out of the DOOM framework. Shrine 2 is free on steam it's a great game and that's a DOOM total conversion

@@unfathomable3434So it sort of similar to saying Blake Stone had Wolf 3Ds engine?

LOL nice one i was thinking the same thing from time too when i say his black nail polish in another video

Lua is great addition to any game, compliments native for scripting. If you want game logic that can be prototyped on runtime with fast iteration, you better use interpreter, think level objects, interactables etc.

Screw the pixel artists. Get them to make proper art.

Thats not what he said at all, he said if you dont know the person well dont make them part of the company, then he gave an artist as an example. Thats pretty reasonable advice.

Daniel Wright Writing an engine that is on par of today’s games will take you ages by yourself, There are so many aspects of an engine that would require a big team. Perhaps a game like Minecraft would be fun, But writing a game engine for a anything more is a life’s accomplishment that will require you years and years of mini accomplishments and errors

@@rdb223 right now Im working on my most promising project yet, since I finally thought of ways to limit myself so that I can get things done, I decided to make it "2D" as in the game is 3d but at a side view and every model is flat, and no detailed textures, but I still found a way to make it look kinda decent. so this just saves a lot of time that would be needed for all the assets and graphics and everything and I can just work on the game how I want to

Personally, I'd say yes. Unity is a fantastic game dev platform - we run Unity workshops here at the museum and am always impressed with what people can achieve using it in so little time. I would GUESS (as I don't know Corona well) that Corona might be easier to start with than Unity. Unity is widely used in professional game development.

Cool, thanks. Opun further reading I believe Corona was suggested for its 2d development scope. Unity is excellent and I have experience already so I'll stick with that

I would say no. Unity is really overcomplicated. You start building your game up to bottom, tweaking engine without understanding what is going on. Unity is very opinionated engine, unlike simpler engines like Corona or similar.

Another good suggestion for 2D game development is GameMaker - it's easier to learn and work with than Unity, but you can still make platformers, roguelikes, and other fun things with it.

Me too. We've been going too long without any news.

Wanna make a game together

Shaleen Baral im only 16 and cant programm i could help with game design but again im only 16 and cant do alot other then sharing files online somehow

@@shaleenbaral7176 yeah sure

@@Zen-rw2fz you responded after 2 years? :O

@@grzyby6474 took me a little while to get used to game development, I haven't started working on a real project yet but I have enough clues to know where to start now

Damn are you serious? That is actually incredible

Well he didn't do it by himself, they were 20 guys back then. But yeah, they didn't have any experience in game development. And nobody believed them when they told what kind of technology they will be using back then. But they shocked the world.

He actually developed Doom95, the Windows 95 source port for Doom which is pure garbage.

I'm sure the fact that he was already a microsoft millionaire at that point helped

He worked in Microsoft, that must be worth something.