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Between all the software development I’ve done for the past while, my true passion is game development.  The first thing that got me into programming was making games.  Right now, I have so much stuff going on, however I still want to move things around so I can start making iPhone games.  I already have many ideas of what to make, though I don’t know where to begin.

Video game development is not like any old programming.  It’s the most challenging fields in software.  You need excellent programers, musicians, artists, and normally a pretty good sized budget.  I myself can handle programming and some graphics, however I have little skill in music.  At this point, I have a basic opengl based engine in the works.  I have looked at other engines, like Unity3D (I have the desktop licensefor it), however that’s over kill for the types of games i want to make.

I probably have over 1000 game ideas in my head, but I am having a hard time picking the simplest one, so I can get a foot in the door.  Apparently on the App Store, customers are brutal.  They want incredibly good games that take up to 6 months of work (if built by a large group) for no more than 1 or 2 dollars.  I know that  I, myself, can’t do something like that alone.