Where to start?

[spare yacht]

I have coded some games in scratch, though I'm not very good at it. I'd like to start game development for fun, but every video and guide I look up is trying to sell me something and it's very daunting. any recommendations? I am basically an absolute beginner

[untold scroll]

i use godot, so i'm a little biased. i've heard good things about brackey's and the latest godot tutorial, which is a good start:

https://youtu.be/LOhfqjmasi0
https://youtu.be/e1zJS31tr88

if you would rather use unity, brackey's has some good tutorials on that as well. there's unity learn, too:

https://learn.unity.com

[spare yacht]

thanks, i don't know C+ or C sharp so i have no clue what to do, again thans

[winter trellis]

If you started with scratch like me your life is gonna be a living hell

[spare yacht]

I mean Im not that good at scratch in the first place, I've only ever followed tutorials or made really simple stuff

[winter trellis]

Than it's gonna be worse than hell

[spare yacht]

Eh, is it THAT bad? Surely it depends on the course/way and style of learning right>

[winter trellis]

[spare yacht]

oh christ

[winter trellis]

Scratch no offense is not real cose

Code

[spare yacht]

yeah, Im not a gamedev, I was just having fun with a couple friends a while ago making silly games. I'm no coder

yet

[winter trellis]

Ok thun ur fine

[spare yacht]

I mean its a learning program for absolute beginners, I don't think I'd call riding with training wheels 'real tour de france', when training wheels are different, if you catch my drift

[winter trellis]

I catch your drift

Well good luck

And start with c sharp it's one of the more simple ones

[spare yacht]

yeah, that's the one I plan on learning

I found a couple Brackey's tutorials and I figured I might as well try

what can go wrong?

or rather, what could go wrong that is worse than making mistakes?

[winter trellis]

You learn from mistakes 💯

[rustic torrent]

a good tip i have is, instead of just watching through tutorials or whatever, as in "Oh okay here's how to do this, cool, onto the next thing", apply what you've learned through your own work instead of just stacking info, and then continue to apply backwards, so if you learn about how to print, and then you learn about variables, and then you learn about functions, build your own examples that apply all three, and don't be afraid to search up something like "how to do [x] in [language]", especially when you're starting out. Good luck!

[spare yacht]

Great advice, I found a GMTK video where the guy says he tried to learn Unity, recreated tutorials, then couldn't make anything of his own. Probably best to learn by doing