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What hobby of yours do you wish more people were into? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Unity development. I'd love to work with someone that knows Unity but no one I know knows what C# is.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I feel you. I have some friends interested but they don't want to actually do the work. I'll submit ideas for games and actually implement those ideas (even if they suck). But my friends feign interest and just give creative thoughts without rolling up their sleeves and learning the engine or doing any work. Even though they are programmers for their day job.

I have one friend who seemed interested, and I showed him around the software for about 15 min and he was like "that's good enough for the day I think". I facepalmed and was just like... "yeah... we can do more later" knowing full well that wouldn't happen.

It sucks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Man, I feel you. I bring it up to my friends and they're all happy about it but then I mention programming and turns them completely off...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Look for some good Game Dev discords and you might be surprised

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Add me to the list of people who dont know what that is

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

This makes me sad, 85% of my job is c# haha

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Ha, it's a programing language. No worries though

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'd love to get into learning game development but I'm poor and all the software on HumbleBundle and Itch.io seem to cost money. Know any good free options?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You can use Unity and the Unreal Engine. The base version of those engines are free and are really powerful. I'm using the free version of unity and I already have a playable build of my game and plus there's a lot of tutorials on youtube for both so it's easy to jump into it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Thanks! But where would I even download those two things? I could search "download unity" but I wouldn't even know what to look for.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

https://unity.com/download this is the link. It downloads the Unity hub where you can access your projects and different builds of the engine. I think under installs on the hub you can download the engine itself

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

That's awesome! Thanks, friend! You rock!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

No problem, anytime chum

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Any game engine works, I guess.