How long would it take to develop a crappy App game?

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• Imipolex G

  2017-06-21 20:44:34

  Touch the cow. Do it now.
  

  A crappy game? Probably somewhere in-between.
  
  Like, you don't need college but it will take more than a month.
  
• Klinotaxis

  2017-06-21 20:50:26

  kill living beings
  

  yeah

  
  

  also, app stores do do some amount of checking and quality control, it's not like it's 1998 and you just throw an .exe onto your geocities and that's distribution taken care of
• Bee

  2017-06-21 21:02:46 edited 2017-06-21 21:03:04

  I mean if you wanted to go Destiny about it you could write a REALLY crappy app game that literally just says "YOU'RE WINNER!" and say the rest is upcoming DLC.  I imagine this could be done with youtube tutorials.

  
  

  If you want to get anything particularly constructive done that doesn't bring powerful machines to their knees with sieve-like memory leaks and zero optimization, you'll need at least a couple years of actual programming classes.
• Tatterhood

  2017-06-21 21:10:09

  I'm pretty sure that GameMaker can make iOS and Android games these days, so.
  
  It really depends on what kind of game you want to make an how high your standards are, but potentially even a month of tutorials is not necessary.
  
• Viani

  2017-06-21 21:21:51

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  I used to make games on GameMaker (mostly sidescrollers like that 1945 game) but wondered if it was possible to make drag-and-drop time-sinks.
• Bee

  2017-06-21 21:39:26 edited 2017-06-21 21:48:17

  GameMaker can get something onto the screen, but its out of the box optimization is cringeworthy.  Or rather, it doesn't automatically do things rookies expect it to.  It has ways to dig deep enough to do it right, but it's almost as involved as just doing it yourself in a different platform.

  
  

  I always winced seeing GameMaker games when I was still on my laptop.  That thing could pull PS2-grade stuff with no issue and I could even manage stuff like Mass Effect (or most of it), but inevitably GameMaker stuff would pull an atrocious framerate on what was essentially a low-end 16-bit game with overwrought VFX.
• Klinotaxis

  2017-06-21 21:54:50

  kill living beings
  

  This is where the crappiness comes in
• Imipolex G

  2017-06-21 22:29:23

  Touch the cow. Do it now.
  

  I dunno, I've seen some good-performing stuff made on GameMaker - AM2R being my favorite example. It just happens to be a platform that many badly-programmed games have been made on.
  
  Anyway yeah, we are talking about making a CRAPPY game here.
  
• glennmagusharvey

  2017-06-21 23:28:14

  >How long would it take to develop a crappy App game?
  
  According to flamers on Steam, half an hour.