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These are the most popular video game programming languages

Manpreet Singh
5 min readMay 2, 2021

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Welcome back! Programming is a massive piece to developing video games, so let’s talk about some of the most popular programming languages used for game development.

C++

Starting off we have C++, this is a very popular object oriented language used at a ton of different companies. To be honest, in almost all of the game developer positions I searched up on Indeed, they all required C++, here are a few of them:

There are tons of frameworks available for C++, including the Unreal Engine. This is an engine created by Epic Games, the same developers that made Fortnite, this gives us access to their full API using C++:

If you want to learn more about Unreal Engine, check out their website here:

Why should someone use C++? It is pretty much an industry standard to develop multi platform games used by many different…

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