Anyone into Android programming?

[emjay]

Just to let you know I got my new laptop, have Unity installed, and have started on the first tutorial. The whole thing looks incredible - I'm so glad you put me onto it because I think it will become an obsession I think it's really gonna work for me because it looks like you can build up your projects iteratively and see the results as you go - much more so than you can with traditional programming - so less discouragement and more opportunity to use your imagination because it's almost like working backwards from the graphics to the code... almost like Minecraft for programmers.  

I'm glad you like it.

Yeah, you could complete an entire game with nothing but one-liner code bits (move here, change that text, go to the next level, etc.): pretty much you just have to tell your game what to do when colliders crash: play a sound, increase a counter, restart the level, whatever.

If you look at my little mini-game there, it was about 10% C# scripting and 90% learning how the "Animation" control works.

I'm quite looking forward to it for another reason as well... there's only two languages available for writing the scripts, C# and JavaScript, and I don't have much experience with either, so now's a chance to learn I can't foresee much problem though in that department because, as you say, there's not much code, and the editor provided with Unity is very helpful.

I've got as far as moving the ball in the Roll a Ball project but I can already think of loads of games I could make based on balls, Snooker being the most obvious one and one that might even be possible based solely on whatever I learn in the rest of this project. Can't wait

Your little mini-game was really cool I have to say. It reminded me of Super Monkey Ball but with the innovation of these pipes that the ball could go through... that was pretty cool too, reminded me of Sonic. What was that face that it showed between every level, was that you?

Anyway I'm really happy with the new laptop I got for this. I specifically looked for one with Windows 7 rather than 8 and was lucky to find one brand new with Windows 7 Pro, a full copy of MS Office, 4gb of RAM, and a quad-core AMD processor, all for £330. Runs like a dream and I'm very happy with it