Breaking into game development for app developers (EXTENDED CUT)

Filip Hráček (formerly of the Flutter team) makes a distinction between "app like games" (board games, strategy games, card games, visual novels, story games) and "video games" (arcade, racers, shooters, platformers). Slay the Spire is a good example of an app like game. So are Puzzle & Dragons, Candy Crush, Coin Master, and Gardenscapes He makes the case that Flutter is great for app like games and he recommends that if you are an app developer that you play to your strengths rather than jump into learning the specialized set of skills you'd need to become a video game developer. He also suggests re-imagining a video game you might want to build to fit the app like style of development…

…ly, I think many Flutter devs are wanting to make games and I predict that in 12 months, a discussion like this will be full of success stories. I find this talk by Filip Hráček super interesting for app developers wanting to get into game dev. Especially, he talks about the different types of games: "app-like games" are a great fit for Flutter. [video…