March 7th, 2017introduces a new “Game development with C” workload, making it easy to get tools you need for building high-quality games with C. Whether you’re using DirectX or powerful game engines such as Unreal Engine or Cocos2d, Visual Studio can install everything you need all at once to get you started quickly.In this blog post, we will talk about how to install Visual Studio for four different C game development scenarios: DirectX games for desktop, DirectX games for Universal Windows Platform (UWP), games with the Unreal Engine, and games with the Cocos2d engine.

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Install Visual Studio for DirectX desktop developmentFirst,. In the Visual Studio installer, choose the “ Game development with C” workload under the “ Mobile & Gaming” category. This workload gives you the core tools to build DirectX games for desktop and includes the Visual Studio core editor, Visual C compiler, Windows Universal C Runtime, and Visual Studio debugger.The Optional component list on the right side of the installer lets you choose additional components that are useful for building DirectX games. The checked components are highly recommended:. C profiling tools: includes Graphics Diagnostics for DirectX and a set of profiling tools for memory, CPU and GPU. Selected by default. Windows 10 and Windows 8.1 SDK: The Windows 10 SDK for the latest Windows 10 OS release.

Selected by default. IncrediBuild: installs, a distributed computing solution for code builds, data builds and development tasks.

Cocos: installs, the editor for building Cocos2d games. We will get to more details in the Cocos development section. Unreal Engine installer: installs, which you can use to download and install the Unreal Engine. We will get to more details in the Unreal development section.Install Visual Studio for DirectX UWP developmentYou can build DirectX games for the Universal Windows Platform to run a variety of devices in the Windows family, including desktops, tablets, and phones.

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If this interests you, and in the Visual Studio installer select the “ Universal Windows Platform development” workload under the “ Windows” category with the “ C Universal Windows Platform tools” option selected.