u/Creative_Abroad945

Beginner resources to briefly explain all the "categories" of game dev/programming

I'm a person with no art/design or programming skills besides music, and when I think about game dev, there's more to it than I even know right now: there's art like maps/the world/open world etc and character models, where I've heard of programs like Blender to create things related to this. Then there's programming things like game mechanics, where I've heard of a few common programming languages including c# and c++. There's the ui that you end up seeing on the screen and how everything is working together and it's nuts

I'd be really appreciative if anybody knows of any good resources for a beginner to start looking into these topics that lays a good foundation with mentioning how all the categories can kind of work together before going into any specific kind of thing about each one. I just want to have a general overview of how many of these things are working together before starting something specific like learning c#

Also, do game devs/programmers or whatever else it could be called, have enough wrist/hand strength to actually play games too? Like can you keep your hands strong and healthy enough from the carpal tunnel so that you can still enjoy games and life after doing all the programing? Maybe something like neuralink will make that a non issue deep into the future but I'd still be happy to hear about anything from anybody

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u/Creative_Abroad945 — 4 days ago

What are some of the greatest creation/"reason for existence" origin stories in fantasy universes?

I'd love to hear more about what fantasy universes have the best origins of the universe, like if there are gods, why are there gods, or however it is, why is it that way?... and which universes handle that aspect in really cool ways

I've seen posts talking about greats like lord of the rings and elder scrolls; or even my personal favorite star wars, for how great and deep the lore can go, but I'm especially thinking about the universe's creation stories or reason for existing in the first place specifically

Personally I have a whole theory about how star wars is all real and led to the "big bang" that we now know as our universe but that's a whole separate issue and post 😂

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u/Creative_Abroad945 — 6 days ago

What's the first story mission?

I just started a guy and I can't quick join a mission until I do a mission first apparently, so what/where is the first mission? The first thing that I traveled to to start matchmaking just times out and kicks me out every time and I have no idea what the first mission is supposed to be

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u/Creative_Abroad945 — 11 days ago

Non combat/killing online pvp rpg?

The older I get, the less I'm interested in things like pure shooter call of duty or strategy games like civilization where you're (probably) just killing everything in online games. I still love them and play that stuff often, but I'm interested to know if there are even any non combat focused strategy type pvp games out there. My main nonviolent game now is sport stuff like nba 2k lol and I wish that I liked chess more, but I just like team play too much. I'd appreciate hearing any suggestions as I have no clue what I'm even thinking of or looking for really. Things like racing and wrestling/fighting games or other sports would work, but I'm also interested in other potentially weirder stuff that could still be rpg based because I love making character builds

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u/Creative_Abroad945 — 13 days ago

Non combat/killing pvp online rpg games?

The older I get, the less I'm interested in things like pure shooter call of duty or strategy games like civilization where you're (probably) just killing everything in online games. I still love them and play that stuff often, but I'm interested to know if there are even any non combat focused strategy type pvp games out there. My main nonviolent game now is sport stuff like nba 2k lol and I wish that I liked chess more, but I just like team play too much. I'd appreciate hearing any suggestions as I have no clue what I'm even thinking of or looking for really. Things like racing and wrestling/fighting games or other sports would work, but I'm also interested in other potentially weirder stuff that could still be rpg based because I love making character builds

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u/Creative_Abroad945 — 13 days ago

Non combat/killing rpg online pvp?

The older I get, the less I'm interested in things like pure shooter call of duty or strategy games like civilization where you're (probably) just killing everything in online games. I still love them and play that stuff often, but I'm interested to know if there are even any non combat focused strategy type pvp games out there. My main nonviolent game now is sport stuff like nba 2k lol and I wish that I liked chess more, but I just like team play too much. I'd appreciate hearing any suggestions as I have no clue what I'm even thinking of or looking for really. Things like racing and wrestling/fighting games or other sports would work, but I'm also interested in other potentially weirder stuff that could still be rpg based because I love making character builds

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u/Creative_Abroad945 — 13 days ago