I've been a programmer for 17 years. Since middle school, I've been using the likes of BASIC to currently C++. I've done school programming, hobby programming, web development, and game programming (which has been the bulk of my programming experience). However, since I'm self taught, I'm doing a reevaluation of my skillset since I'm about to take on a very big gaming project of my own for commercial reasons. I've created two commercial games so far: Link #1 & Link#2. They're all self coded with contracted assets from artists and musicians. If there's one thing I will say I don't have an actual education much in (except from brief books), and I'm still wondering if I need to at all, it's the following:
project organization
task management
project management
I can use some advice from more professional programmers and game developers on how to proceed before I do my next project. Books, videos, anything will do. I almost want to employ myself with a professional development team for like a year or two to learn how they do it in the business world. I feel like that even though I've completed these projects, it felt like I was hacking together a bunch of wood and hoping the house stays afloat, which is typical of one man dev teams who are garage deving everything from their bedroom. Thank you!
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