The Gamer To Game Developer tutorials teach programming for multiplayer games, I’m tinkering with it now just to get my head around the idea of programming, I dream of being an indie dev myself. However the idea for the first full project I wanna do is going to be a narrative FPS Horror game, Are there any good tutorials for single player coding I should jump in to once I’m done with GTGD? I’m just getting my feet wet right now, I already feel like GTGD won’t be enough for what I want to do
Thanks for your help in advance
There are so many things to know and even though tutorials are useful they just go so far. I did the GTGD multiplayer tutorial when I was learning how to program and in my opinion it’s not a good starting point for a beginning programmer. The tutorial series is nice though, it shows you how to make a multiplayer game but you skip all intrinsics about programming so you end up with a basic multiplayer game but you probably have no idea how or why it’s working.
Second, I found out that video tutorials don’t work nearly as effective as text written ones. Forget the idea you can sit back and relax and learn something like programming. You could do it if time wasn’t such a big deal but who has time anyway?
I don’t know what works best for you but if I’m guessing right then you feel more comfortable with a targeted approach, basically what you’re doing already. Depending on your motivation/patience I’d say stick with this method but what worked better for me was to learn from all bits and pieces of information I could find about whatever I needed to know. Within some period of time you start to see that you’re doing the same stuff over and over again and at that point you don’t even need tutorials anymore (documentations are useful, and forum/blog posts etc). I know that it seems less interactive and extremely boring but isn’t that your own imagination failing on you? 
So to make a short story long. No, I don’t have a particular tutorial for you but if you want to be indie better be prepared for the fact that finding a solution (the thing you do as developer) can take a lot of time, and especially if you watch video tutorials. You might not even find it at all because you’re looking in the wrong places, or it’s right in front of you but you don’t recognize it because of inexperience.
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Thank you, this was helpful!