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Re:Making Small Games, Which Is Fun in Itself by alectroem on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @01:47PM (#38857968)
I would highly recommend starting with a fantasy console such as Pico-8 or TIC-80. They remove the temptation to start by building a game engine from scratch, and instead help you focus on actually creating games! Plus they have great communities, complete docs, and simple apis.
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Re:Making Small Games, Which Is Fun in Itself by krapp on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @02:10PM (#38858379)
Yeah, one of the traps I find myself falling into a lot is that the act of writing code itself can be satisfying enough, and fear (of finishing, complexity and failure) can lead to just spinning your wheels for a long time.
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