Have any video games or applications inspired you in your programming? Did they help inspire you to become a programmer?

Question

Growing up I always thought it would be cool to make video games. Early interests started with the old school Warcraft 2 and StarCraft map editors. From there I progressed into some of the RPG Maker titles.

The Final Fantasy line of games always inspired me. The way the mechanics worked and the actual dialog and narrative scripting always fascinated me and early on I knew I wanted to be one of the guys that coded stuff like that into a game.

Answer 1

The Quake and Unreal Tournament game series. I've always wondered how they could render such 3d maps in an efficient manner. Then I got into visibility algorithms and how to render polygons using potential visibility sets and other esoteric subjects. Made my own Quake 3 map loader using the bsp map format that is available on the web. I've read the Doom 3 source code which is more than 200k lines of code and wondered how I could make a game like that...

Answer 2

Just games and computers in general made me want to learn how they work. lol I remember, when I was little, opening up the files for computer games in Notepad and thinking that's what code looked like! I'd try to decipher what the symbols meant and try to "hack" the games. And I broke so many computers tinkering with their files! ^_^;

Even though games made me so interested, I would never want to work making them. Everything about it seems awful! Considering front-end is awful anyway lol :P
It's also kind of weird to play games now because I keep wondering what kind of logic they used to model or work something.

Answer 3

I used to play games as well and I always wanted to make my own and become rich :P Then I got into programming through my friend. Never looked back since.

Answer 4

Mobile Apps are my goal...and from there I have pretty much just tried to study anything Computer Related...Interested in Mobile Dev and Cyber Security

Answer 5

My friend got me into programming because his middle and high school science fair projects were so amazing. he built a Rubik's cube solving robot and turned his phone into a VR headset.