I plan to start looking into the Unreal engine soon after I get experience with a more basic engine. Have you found a lot of the resources available are able to get you started well? Or is there a large learning curve? My main experience is in writing Rails apps, Ruby gems, a couple basic Android apps, and everything DevOps.
It's pretty smooth. Epic have really polished the UX to make such a complex piece of software understandable and soften the barrier to entry as much as possible. There are all sorts of tutorials.
I'd say it's easier to learn than Unity at this point, but harder than 2D engines like GameMaker. I think some basic experience making simple 2D games will help a lot before the transition to 3D.
If you're already familiar with Javascript and you want to start making games at a lower level you could try the PhaserJS framework.
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I plan to start looking into the Unreal engine soon after I get experience with a more basic engine. Have you found a lot of the resources available are able to get you started well? Or is there a large learning curve? My main experience is in writing Rails apps, Ruby gems, a couple basic Android apps, and everything DevOps.
It's pretty smooth. Epic have really polished the UX to make such a complex piece of software understandable and soften the barrier to entry as much as possible. There are all sorts of tutorials.
I'd say it's easier to learn than Unity at this point, but harder than 2D engines like GameMaker. I think some basic experience making simple 2D games will help a lot before the transition to 3D.
If you're already familiar with Javascript and you want to start making games at a lower level you could try the PhaserJS framework.