I am programming my games with javascript(impact js engine) I don't know about the rest of your questions. I don't deal with 3d at all. Harder to make, harder to render, and since my focus is mobile devices...

Well I'm a 2d game programmer(sort of) never went into 3d. from what I have seen so far 2d game requires high school math. It's basically moving an object on a x y plane, when 2 objects have the same x coordinates and same y coordinates, then the 2 objects have collided. If I had to guess, I'd say 3d is about moving an object on an xyz plane. Animating the objects is about alternating from one image to another within fractions of a second. I am not sure how this is done in 3d(or if there are things that make 3d objects) So I guess it shouldn't be difficult to move from 3d to 2d

I bought impact last monday. Haven't started coding anything yet, just watching some tutorials. I like what I see so far.

I'll come back and post my honest opinion in a few weeks when I actually have something done by it.

I've been wondering about it as well. But I have no prior game development experience what so ever.

Do you currently make games? What engines/frameworks do you use?

You could use youtube series, plenty of those for java ...

The name "Go" has been coming up more and more for me lately in benchmarks. As it turns out, this is one of the fastest server side languages out there. According to benchmarks, at the very least it is 10 times better than php. So when it matures it would definitely be worth looking into. For now I would much rather use a language where, if something breaks or crashes. I know how to debug

I'm a fucking wizard with it, but I feel like it's instilling bad coding practices into my nature as a programmer.

 

The question is, what do I move on to? Python? I've got beginner experience in Python, but the syntax annoys me. Ruby? Everyone tells me ruby is dying, I don't want to waste time learning something that wont be relevant. I'm really leaning towards python, but I'd like anyone to try and convince me to switch to their server-side language.

Why not use a php framework? I personally use symfony and I love it. It forces a coding pattern on you, and keeps your code clean. 

It is difficult to learn (it took me around 4 month of daily work on it to really learn it) but once you do learn it, development becomes much much faster. It is very organized and reuses code very efficiently 

But if I learned this one I would be on the cutting edge of the new wave of programming languages eh? 

It will mean nothing if other people don't/can't use it. It's like taking the time to learn some old indian language that only 10 living people today know how to speak it... You won't find any good opportunities to use it, it will be difficult to sell your code or find people later on to help you maintain it

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Also note that even good programmers would struggle a lot to learn a new poorly documented language. A person new to programming will stand very little chance

I personally would not bother learning a new language unless it is very well documented, and it would make my life easier somehow. I did not look into this new language(aside from quickly reading wikipedia) but going out on a limb, a new language would not have a big community and a lot of documentation. 

I have tried several times to learn not so well documented languages/frameworks. It was not very rewarding. 

I really liked the finale and the whole show. Overall it was perfect. Most TV series I used to watch start out interesting, then do 9 seasons and bore you to death. I could go on forever about what makes Breaking Bad an awesome show

And don't forget. Time is a big limiting factor. I have a passion for creating beautiful things. But I am struggling between my boring full time job that puts food on my table, and then I work on my own side projects in my free time. Putting together 10 days to work on a personal project takes me 2 month because of that.