by MagicManICT » Fri Sep 06, 2013 4:43 am
If you know a lot about writing code, why are you asking here? Believe me when I say this: no matter how much you think know, you have a ton more you're going to learn. But still, my advice stands: get some good books (or websites) and maybe join some professional groups. (Even if your a teen, many have a student division for those college or teen students.)
You didn't post an answer to my question earlier, and don't worry about posting it, but think about it in a more general sense. What kind of game do you want to make? RPG, FPS, RTS, puzzle?
Real hackers use *nix, or at least that's what the geeks would have everyone believe still. Programmers use whatever tools are necessary to produce what's needed. Plus side: Apple includes a full-featured Objective C IDE in OSX. Something Microsoft finally picked up a couple years ago with free versions of the different Visual Studio parts (but left out the good tools that I came to love when I was taking some college classes). Don't help Apple charges about 3x as much as their computers are worth, so what you're really saying to many is "I'm a rich snob artist type." (Sad part is Apples used to be some of the cheapest computers for what you got.)
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