Developing Games

What programming experience do you have? What games programming experience do you have? What kind of game would like to develop?

Very generally, writing a complete game in Open GL would be the best learning experience but also the hardest, while using an engine would be the best for performance and easy of use.

 

Try Unity Engine or UDK by Unreal Technologies.

You can write your game engine from scratch but its the hardest solution especially if your by yourself.

 

Yeah you really need to stick with Unity or UDK/Unreal Engine 3. They really are great if you want to hit multiple systems at once (and you really really should).

 

Unity...free and runs on OS X, which UDK does not. Theoretically you can get better performance by writing your own custom engine instead of using a general engine, but it will be a much much longer haul.

--Eric

 

At this point in time UDK is for Windows and iOS, there isn't a UDK for the Mac.

 

cocos2d is a fantastic 2D engine. I'm using it right now to develop a physics-based sim game. Has Box2D and Chipmunk physics engine support built-in. Might take a look. You can build apps for iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

http://www.cocos2d-iphone.org/

 

Looks like a nice engine. I'm not the OP, but thanks for the suggestion.