Level 1: Press Space to Start
If you only have a few seconds to learn game development, here’s the super-condensed version. Fetch user input. Move everything just a tiny bit. Check if anything overlaps. Draw everything. Repeat this 60 times every second.
If you have a couple of extra minutes, then here’s the expanded version. A computer can do a lot of things, very quickly. It can update the individual positions of an army of enemy tanks, or flock of virtual bunnies. It can launch missiles or grow carrots or spawn beautiful particle effects. It can detect any collisions that occur. And it can draw everything on screen. All in one sixtieth of a second.
Game development is analogous to orchestrating a real-time, interactive, stop-motion animation ...
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