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aRtoo

Do you have resources for super-duper beginners? I'm a junior dev but I wanted to transition from full-stack to game (mobile or PC) or security. Can you use go lang for building games?

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Braelyn

Not sure about golang for games. I've used Unity, JavaScript and Swift/iOS GameKit.

One of my previous posts links to some tutorials with Phaser that I wrote - or you can find more here.

Otherwise, I'd recommend just googling what you want to learn and looking for free tutorials to get started. Once you've got a better footing, it's worth paying for some of the beginner courses on Udemy, etc. when you can get a discount because they're very helpful.

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aRtoo

thanks for this. I tried phaser before and I thought its useless because every gaming company uses c++ and I only had experience in c++ when I was in uni. I ask golang because our company are about to use go lang. ANyway thank you so much.

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Braelyn

If you want to actually work for a gaming company, I'd recommend a Pluraslight subscription and as many Unity + Unreal courses you can find. Those are the 2 big ones for actual game companies.

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aRtoo

cool thank you so much. :)