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[storkEXEC]

Mine was that I used to think 3d games (like DOOM) had millions of frames drawn in MS Paint and the frames cycled depending on where the player was.

[Jobo]

Wow.

Actually, I'm not much better. When I was just a little kid playing Pokémon on my GameBoy Color, I thought they had an animation for each possible way the player could walk in the entire game.

Like, a case for two steps up and one to the right.
But then again, I was only 9-10 back then.

Edited by Jobo, 11 September 2011 - 03:21 PM.

[storkEXEC]

Wow.

Actually, I'm not much better. When I was just a little kid playing Pokémon on my GameBoy Color, I thought they had an animation for each possible way the player could walk in the entire game.

Like, a case for two steps up and one to the right.
But then again, I was only 9-10 back then.

yep, I was about the same age

[chance]

What was your biggest misconception before you started making games?

That it was really difficult. So I never bothered to try, even though I was aware of tools like GameMaker. But once I created a few games, I realized how easy it actually was.

Of course, creating a really good game is still pretty difficult.

[Phantom107]

None.

Everything has always made total sense right away.

[Jobo]

None.

Everything has always made total sense right away.

(He's bluffing) I call and raise by 20.

[Nocturne]

I was lucky and actually started programming games with a zx81... so even before playing any bought games I had already seen a bit of how they were made thanks to the wonders of Basic!!!

[orange08]

What was your biggest misconception before you started making games?

Well, I never really jumped to conclusions about how games were made... but when I got game maker I had the misconception that I could make epic games right off the bat.

[e_barroga]

I thought I was playing another player on Red Alert for the Playstation.

[slam drago]

I thought games were made by small teams of extremely geeky nerds.

[Docopoper]

I thought they were written in binary code - ie. one would just type:

01001001001000000110001101100001011011100010000001110100011001010110110001101100001000000111100101101111011101010010000001100001011011000111011101100001011110010111001100100000011101000110100001101001011011100110101100100000011100000110010101101111011100000110110001100101001000000110000101110010011001010010000001101000011010010110010001101001011011100110011100100000011101000110100001101001011011100110011101110011001000000110011001110010011011110110110100100000011110010110111101110101001011100010111000101110001000000011101001010000

And you would have to type things like that to even get a single letter. I was so stupid!

First game I remember playing was sim city btw.

[Robert3DG+]

Never really had any misconceptions. I slowly figured things out on my own.

[Erik Leppen]

What was your biggest misconception before you started making games?

That games had programming, graphics and sound, and nothing else, and that by having good programming, good graphics and good sound you automatically had a good game.

Now I know that there's another, crucial element, called game design

[chance]

What was your biggest misconception before you started making games?

That games had programming, graphics and sound, and nothing else, and that by having good programming, good graphics and good sound you automatically had a good game.

Not sure that's really a misconception. Tragically, many games are just programming, graphics and sound.

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Edited by chance, 11 September 2011 - 07:52 PM.

[ugriffin]

Well, I never really jumped to conclusions about how games were made... but when I got game maker I had the misconception that I could make epic games right off the bat.

I was similar; I knew I needed to learn, but I always believed doing a Banjo-Kazooie would be easy once I learnt the basics.

Meh.

[storkEXEC]

Slighty off topic, but I have many programming misconceptions. Usually when I'm doing complex tasks, and the reason why it's not working is so simple it has almost nothing to do with the complexity of the task.

[Andy]

Mine was that I used to think 3d games (like DOOM) had millions of frames drawn in MS Paint and the frames cycled depending on where the player was.

Wow... ...I am so happy I was not the only one!

I had the same idea.

[SilentxxBunny]

Mine was that I used to think 3d games (like DOOM) had millions of frames drawn in MS Paint and the frames cycled depending on where the player was.

Wow... ...I am so happy I was not the only one!

I had the same idea.

Alas, so did I. xD

[IceMetalPunk]

Well, I never really had misconceptions about game design because I've never been a big gamer. So really, I never thought about it until after I had already started designing for myself.

But in the general "programming" field, I had a huge misconception about web design. Back before I started working with web design myself (must have been over 10 years ago), I used to think that you couldn't just make a site. I thought only major companies were allowed to make websites, and the personal pages had to be bought from those major companies. Imagine my surprise when I found a website teaching people how to code in HTML .

To be fair, I was also about 10 years old at the time.

-IMP

[masterofhisowndomain]

I thought you had to be reasonably good at programming to make games...

... I've been proving that misconception wrong for about 4 years now.