Yep.
Like writing a novel. You can do NanoWrimo and bash it out.
But it is incredibly hard to write a good, entertaining and successful novel.
Music and drawing or painting is similar.
Like writing a novel. You can do NanoWrimo and bash it out.
But it is incredibly hard to write a good, entertaining and successful novel.
Music and drawing or painting is similar.
It’s difficult to make good games. It’s difficult to make fun games. It’s difficult to make complex games.
But it’s easy to simply make games.
People make games in 48 hours. People make games with pencil and paper. People make games probably no one ever plays.
If a game is difficult to make, it’s because you have made it difficult: You’ve given in to scope creep. You’ve chosen an ambitious idea well beyond your abilities. You have complicated multiplayer network code where it’s hard to keep clients in sync. You’re writing everything from scratch…
But overall, if you can stick to something simple, manageable, and well within your ability to execute, you will realize it’s easy to make games.