7 Mistakes Everyone Makes In Game Development
Looking to start your own Game Development studio? When you create a game, you can make about 10 billion general mistakes and further 100 billion technical errors. Here are a few common mistakes that span the Game Development spectrum. We've been wide-eyed, committed and full of ideas and energy when we start making games. But along the way, we made more than a couple of mistakes that cost us time, money and opportunity. #1 Remember to back up your work You have 1 million lines of C++ code in 50 modules, and it all sits on one hard drive. You've been working on it for six months and — bang — there's a fire, a robbery, a crazy one-time significant other, or a crash of a hard drive that destroys everything. Make sure you back up your work onto tape, ZIP disk, CD-ROM or remote server every day. #2 Failing to test correctly You just wrote a killer Game Development and it works fantastically on your computer. Well, then what? You had better test it on a n...