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Game programming skills

Game programming skills - Unity Tutorial

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Game programming skills

- [Voiceover] A game programmer creates game play elements, systems, and tools from code. There are many specialized programming disciplines all of which fall under the umbrella term of game programmer. Let's take a look at some of the skills and experience you'll need to be a game programmer. First you'll need to develop strong programming skills, the kind that are useful for most application developers. Different game engines and environments are built on different programming languages so a good amount of flexibility and knowledge with different languages is helpful. Second, beyond the normal skills the programmers need to develop game programmers need to pay particular attention to detail. Games are some of the largest and most complicated programs that people run on their computers and the game consoles have very specific hardware resources available to them. So you can't afford to have a memory leak. Your code needs to be modular, decoupled, and optimized so that the performance…

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