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This is my very first blog, so I'm not sure the ins and outs of writing one. I will do my best and hopefully become better at writing them. In the last few weeks, I have been contemplating starting a business in making games. I have done countless research on starting a business and have finally come to a point where I'm ready to begin registering the business and getting a website up and running. I have decided to write a blog on said website, which will mainly consist of dev logs on the game I will be working on. I also plan on making dev logs on YouTube, showing my progress, not only for other to see, but also for a record of what I did so I can learn from it for future projects. My first game will be on iOS, as 3D games are just too ambitious. The plan is to make a 2D action RPG. It's not going to be as complex as Pokemon or Zelda, but will be big enough to keep my interest. A lot of people suggest making simple games first, but that doesn't interest me. I want a challenge. Hopefully running a business will kind of force me to stick with a project, instead of just making a prototype and moving on. My first hurdle has been making the website. I've decided not to use a CMS such as Wordpress, as I have enough web experience to make my own. I want it to be customizable and I want to make it as secure as possible for when I start implementing a login mechanism with mailing lists and the sort. I have the skeleton of a website with enough visual fidelity to be released, but I just don't know what content to put in. I don't have any images to put up and I'm not sure what to write, as I haven't actually done much development work yet. I'd love to know what you guys think I should add. The website isn't public, so I can't show you what I have, but if you have any experience with this kind of thing, I'd love to hear from you. I hope to write more blogs like this in the future, so any feedback on my writing or suggestions on starting a business would be greatly appreciated. Also, If you are thinking of starting an indie game business of your own, I'd be happy to share the info that I have gathered.

I have the urge to get some good answers now because I am reaching the apex of tolerance and patience reloading my old project and EVERYTHING IS EMPTY there is NOTHING in the map Now loading my new project it's also empty

Hello again everyone, I am having an issue with the editor whereby it works absolutely fine in the textured render mode but as soon as I try and run the game or if I render a window in textured+lighting I get the error: Framebuffer incomplete: GL_FRAMEBUFFER_INCOMPLETE_MISSING_ATTACHMENT Now I have been looking at the forums for a while now and it seems that this has happened before but the solutions proposed (deleting objects + computer restart) do not seem to be working... This wasn't a problem before until I added lots of lights to my game... I am making an inside level so exclusively using Point Lights and Spot Lights rather than a Directional Light (which I was saving for later to act as the Sun (The game is in Space at the moment). I started with floor lights from the Sci-Fi constructors kit and added spot lights to them and this seemed to work fine but I wasn't keen on the type of light so I swapped to Point Lights. This is when I started having issues, when I replaced all of my spot lights with point lights I started getting the crash and the above mentioned error. (I did this manually) Does this mean that the engine doesn't support lots of Point Lights (as the Spot Lights worked fine)? Have I messed up somewhere? In Debug mode it highlights the render world function (I haven't touched any scripts yet) PS: It's worth noting that I made one light and then saved it as a prefab and then Ctrl+Dragged it so that I had the same light all over the place... We are talking 50+ lights and counting... Should I make directional lights inside the rooms and put a 'fake' light model in to reduce the amount of lights? PPSS: My PC specs are in my signature. THANKS!

Me and my team have been working with leadwerks for a little bit now, but have run into many issues with the programming, things are working and we don't know why or how, and things aren't working and we don't know why or how. We have been trying to do things ourselves and have also tried asking on the forums here, but feel as if we are just not skilled enough at programming. So we wanted to bring someone into the team who DOES know what they are doing. We have the full version on steam, so we can do c++ and lua scripts with no issues. Anyone here know where we can ask people about to join in? We don't have a lot of funding right now, but are setting up an indiegogo and would be more than willing to pay from that and from the profits...once the game is finished (for the profits that is, indiegogo funding will just be after we get the amount asked). Would that be a bad thing, and we should wait until after the indiegogo? I don't where to go, our last project everyone just kinda worked in their spare time...

I really want to buy the Indie on Steam right now seeing how it is on sale and having tried the demo for a bit it looks promising. But I want to really want to know how good can one make the GUI of a game using just the tools provided with the Indie version? Some games can work with almost no GUI but other games require some fairly large amount of information and buttons to be accessible at all times. I've searched the internet for tutorials and examples, but there doesn't seem to be any. Also I was rather saddened that FlowGUI is no longer being worked on seeing how that had great promise for people who have to work with the Indie version for whatever reasons. EDIT: Ok perhaps I should clarify my point. It isn't about how good in terms of aesthetics but in terms of possible different elements one can put on the screen. I figured out in theory how to create a button, checkbox, or radio button using Lua alone. But for something like scrollpanes and dropdown menus I might need to use C++ and/or GUI building plugins.

As the title suggests I am having a hard choice deciding whether I should purchase the indie or standard edition. I would like to know if the standard edition offers more than the indie edition. To my knowledge standard offers c++ support and that is it. does Standard offer more than this?(A comprehensive comparison would be greatly appreciated or just a link to a source of info)