I am a 28-year-old air conditioning repairman who recently had a super early mid-life crisis and now wants to become a game dev. What is the most efficient way for me to do this WITHOUT going back to school?
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develop a game?
HVAC techs are waaay more valuable than game devs, who are just söyboys and diversity hires.
bait, zoomer garbage.
this.
It's not bait.
I'm fine with working and studying at the same time. I basically did that while I was taking HVAC classes. I just don't know where to start. Should I start with Java? C++? Python? This board doesn't have sticky with useful references for begs like /ic/ or Ganker.
gamedev is a cnile realm, go K&R C and then some C++ resources together with a bunch of books specifically on the subject
check /gedg/
start with harvard cs50 course
man up moron, HVAC is way more valueable than gamedev. People actually respect you and genuinely need your work, you're in a pretty secure position with what you know and competently do. Don't throw that away over a moronic "Crisis", that's a pussy's excuse.
Follow your dreams man. You can always go back to HVAC if things don't work out.
This has to be bait. HVAC is legitimately one of the most in-demand and rewarding trades a man can learn in current year.
And you want to become a soidev competing against hordes of H1Bs?
based a I got accepted into HVAC at 28 and am just waiting the next intake in six months. Until then, I am entering neetmode and will pursue my real passion which is drawing, something I haven't done since elementary school.
>my real passion which is drawing
based
can highly recommend the iPad pro the stylus + procreate are a real joy to work with
I just bought a Samsung S9 Ultra which seems comparable to the iPad, thought I don't have procreate there is infinite painter which is nice and minimal for a beginner like me, or HiPaint which is a chink procreate 1:1 knockoff 😛
the tools dont matter all to much anyways
Saved, nice work anon
keep your job and spend the next five years learning programming, art and music
Develop a game and get it released on gamepass. Also good luck, the tech industry is very competitive right now with lots of layoffs. Remote work is much hard to come by now and thousands of people apply for these jobs.
My own company let go of over 100 people recently and we were less than 700 people in size.
I feel like it would be incredibly difficult without a degree unless you make your own game.
You might also start looking at game testing to get your foot slightly in the door somewhere. Though ive heard its hard work and not nearly as enjoyably as you'd think.
Call a pajeet from fiverr
>HV VXXD
wtf hiro
unironic answer: learn programming, which includes a lot of practice, hitting books is easy, but for it to really stick you need to practice shit. Then learn some game engine, go to is godot/unity, again it requires a lot of studying, looking stuff up and PRACTICE, you're gonna break a ton of eggs before you get good at it, but that's normal, shit's not intuitive at all, but then it becomes pretty trivial.
and your first language of choice doesn't matter, you can learn another reasonably well in a day or two after the first one. I started with python which worked for me, but perhaps something with types like c or c# is a bit better because it makes you understand types easier.
Forget the video games, how do I become an HVAC technician in my spare time?
>Search for HVAC courses near you
>sign up for it
>attend classes for a few hours a day.
>get certified within a year.
>HVAC courses near you
No such thing exists.
Become someone's b***h. It's so amazing to me that the US is supposed to be the land of the free, but in most states you are forced into years of slavery before you can do any contracting as an independent. Nevermind the codes, god so many codes.
>in my spare time?
Its a fricking vocation trade, you don't. If you got the background you can ask to work under somebody, but if you don't then they will lack the patience.
Unironically you have to work for vocation apprentice wages for 1-3 years.
Just walk into the CEOs office, look him in the eye and shake his hand firmly. He will be impressed by your gumption.
Even if you could become a wagie in a cagie at some major studio, why the frick would you want to?
You could try modding for patreon bucks. You could try to make an indy and do some independent hvac shit on the side (years of work with no income). You could try make a coom game for patreon bucks (you better be a real degenerate piece of shit, or you will hate yourself).
you are asking how to become a great guitarist in your late 40s. gamedev will disappoint you
Just make a game in your free time, even if it takes years.
Doing game dev for a company is shit and you need 10 years of experience, ots worthless do a game and publish it yourself.
For the engine:
2d -> game maker (paid, very good, israeli pricing) , gdevelop (foss, trashy)
3d -> unity (freemium, israeli procing, decent) or godot (foss, messy, very good).
gamedev sucks hvac is better
grass isn't greener
it's called a quarter life crisis and just be yourself and start sending out resumes im sure it'll work out
What I don't have a resume
>quarter life crisis
>28
Bro?
What are your hours? Couldn't you just do game dev stuff in your free time?
>t. HVAC guy that does game dev stuff in his free time
>WITHOUT going back to school
unless you're excellent at self teaching and learning you will be stuck at pajeet level your entire life and compete with them
Coding has no value unless you're in the top 0.1% of skill and knowledge, just keep this in mind
Don't quit your day job, making a living off game dev is like winning the lottery.
...Why? Game dev is extremely unlikely to make any money.
It's fine to have a passion project, but you're probably not going to make a living unless you focus on meme games, like those extreme difficulty platformers that streamers have been playing.
2D? Godot
PS1/N64-era 3D? Godot
Modern 3D? Unreal
as a Milenial...I mean Boomer.
game dev..your kinda 18 years too late.
>28 years old
>only realize the IT bubble now
were you living under a rock for last 15 years?
I dont know the most efficient way, but please stay clear of developing games on Unreal Engine or Unity, learning on how to operate a pre-baked engine is probably even more useless than repairing ACs
Uh you want to give up good paying job and ability for side pussy (lonely wives and 18 year old schoolgirls). Are you nuts?.
watch some godot tutorials and try to follow along. you need a wide skillset to be a solo game dev so start simple (like pong simple) and then increase in complexity. Programming, like HVAC, revolves primary around designing and fixing complex interlinked systems.