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Tonight I decided to dedicate a new area of my blog entirely to Games Programming! The reason for this is that over summer I plan to blog about Game Programming principles, code snippets and techniques and wanted a way to filter these out from the general stuff on my blog.
I am currently studying Games Software Development at degree level in my first year and over the next few months I plan to learn as much as I can about DirectX and openGL (although I will probably choose one of these as my main choice). My aim is to cover these topics from the very basics through to more advanced topics, blogging about the good AND the bad.
Why am I not getting into the new trendy XNA and .NET stuff? Well I did plan to read into this area, however after chatting with a senior programmer at a large UK Games Studio my concerns about these areas were confirmed. They are simply for hobbyists and have little potential in a real job in the console game industry! In his words,
“We get lots of cv’s handed to us with portfolios full of flash, java and XNA games. We wouldn’t even take on a junior programmer who didn’t have thorough experience of c++ graphics programming.”
