Ask HN: Bought Oculus, know C#, never done game dev. What to build?

1 points by dizzy3gg 8y ago ↗ HN

I've took advantage of the Oculus deal, I have tons of C# and .net experience but only completed the pong tutorial in Unity and wasn't grabbed by it.

Any pointers on what to build. My day job is currently writing/outsourcing small business/intranet applications, so need some fun in my life.

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PaulHoule 8y ago ↗

I've never found any tutorial on Unity to really grab me.

It may be too ambitious but I from an artistic point of view I am interested in the ability of VR to put me in the same room as a fictional character

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53oJdX0SRz0

For instance, in VR a character can move close to you or away from you and thus trigger feelings related to your personal space.

tarr11 8y ago ↗

If you've never done Unity, you should just go through the 3D tutorials [0]. The component model is different than what you would do in something like asp.net mvc. So, that takes a bit of getting used to.

[0] https://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials