Before you start your journey as a game developer, what do you need to know?

Question

Android

Previously, I wrote sites on html5 css3, I can say I worked with the code.
I want to change the field of activity, I liked the development of the game. You work with cool graphics, create your own game on which you then earn money. I present it in. pink glasses, but I want to see all this without glasses, and I need your help.

ps - we want to make games with a friend exclusively for ourselves, not on order, not to work for a company. Purely for myself. We want to make games on Unity.

Please tell me what will await me, what I will face, and in general what I need to understand before I consciously make a decision and tell myself, yes, I am ready to spend half a year, a year to study and then reap the benefits.
But before making such a decision, I need to understand what awaits me there) Do I want this and will everything be as cool as I imagined)

Well, like, if you want to be a game developer, then you should know that not everything is so bright here and rosy, firstly ..., secondly ... and so on.

Answer 1

Please tell me what will be waiting for me

starvation. Loners don't make money. Those who allegedly earn are the units of products that have fired out of many thousands. Google the survivor error.

Answer 2

I have a very similar situation.
I started with HTML and CSS, and 2 months ago I decided to make games with a friend. We assembled a team of 2 artists and 2 musicians. And only I program in the team. We started with 2D recently switched to 3D, and in a fairly short period of time (2 months) I got used to Unity well, so much so that one day I had a dream with a solution to a bug). The three main rules that I adhere to are: 1) Do not get hung up on one idea but do not leave the project halfway 2) Google. I'm serious, Google played a big role in my mastery of the engine and the C# language 3) Don't give up. Did not work out? Try again, and again, and again until the result is satisfactory.
And remember: a game is first and foremost an idea, the most difficult thing in developing a game is coming up with an interesting concept, plot and gameplay.
Good luck! ;)

Answer 3

It looks like everyone starts with layout and goes to game development) I follow the same path...
The main thing is to know C#, focus on it... the rest will come with experience.
Well, I am also alone and every day I understand that it is almost impossible to do something alone! (((

Answer 4

turn on the thinker and see competitors
about 98% google says for idiots displaying 1900*1200 image in 240*360 window
mobile users are happy

Answer 5

Don't listen to this Google advice. No matter how you compress an image, Google thinks it can compress more. I suspect that the ideal image would be a GIF with a uniform fill.

Answer 6

Use Save for web in Photoshop. Set the minimum number of colors and maximum compression at which the image quality does not suffer.

Answer 7

The resolution of the image on disk and in the img tag must match.
Photoshop does not optimize for Google.
Use jpegoptim, jpegtran, optipng. So I do it in optimify.ru and Google accepts it.