Why Software Engineering
When I played my first video game, I wanted to learn how to design them so that I could make my own kind of video games. As I grew up and learned more types of gaming, I want to try make one that has many types of gaming into one. Growing up however, I came to realize that such a process would be very complex as I later discovered programming languages existed. I believe learning software engineering is the first step to video game designing.
What I hope do to later
Since I like to draw, I hope I can do both design the game and create the characters and places for the gameplay. Ever since I was little, I liked the idea of combing different things that came from different places into one world or universe. I have created characters since elementary year and as years passed I have always kept drawing them and see that I have improved over the years. However, I do think my drawings are not good enough at my current level but maybe later on as I keep practicing that they will look great to be used.
What experiences I hope to develop
I am hoping software engineering will help me learn aspects of what it takes to develop video games or applications for mobile devices. Aside from having to take the course by force now, I am hoping that the experiences I learn from this course will help me in the future to do what I want to do. That is to design model characters to be used for game development and create mechanics for the games and hopefully turn out to make a great game.
Experience VS Expectation
With the semester ending, I have no regrets in taking a software engineering class. What I learned in the class passed my expectations of the course. Though I have not used it for gaming design purposes yet, I have learned many tools that will help me do other things such as making web applications and built in functions for it. Thanks to this class, I was able to get my feet wet with a team project to make a web application and get a taste as well for how it is like to work on a project with a team. Game designs will take a team to work on such a feat so I am glad I got to experience that.
Source : MoarChow