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Re: Show HN: I'm 48 and finally learning how to be a game developer

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Looks cool, bud! I was in a similar situation a while back and published a game too. It never made any money, mostly because I didn't market it too hard, but it was one of those milestones that I accomplished just to say that I did. :) Heads up! You misspelled 'distractions' in your screenshot.

Jesus Christ, thanks for pointing that out. Imma fix it with the next update.

Re: Show HN: I'm 48 and finally learning how to be a game developer

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My son wants to learn how to make games but I have no game development experience. What path did you take to start learning game development?

Some really great resources for kids to learn to program games: CodeCombat Construct 3

Hey thanks for the Construct 3 mention we're always thrilled to see it come up :)

Re: Show HN: I'm 48 and finally learning how to be a game developer

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My son wants to learn how to make games but I have no game development experience. What path did you take to start learning game development?

I am developer with over 20 years of experience. I have learned programming from books where computers were generally not available where I grew up. But my son is learning programming (started when he was 6, he just turned 8 recently). He started by goofing off with some robots programmed in visual languages. Then moved to goofing off even more in Scratch. When pandemic started we found a school that teaches programm…

GMS2 is a good engine. I also built a Minecraft server for my son. Started with an RP4 but he complained about lag so I finally just let him a Linux laptop.

Re: Show HN: I'm 48 and finally learning how to be a game developer

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This is very inspiring - I started out life as an artist and then became a programmer in my late 20's. I'm now 37 and feel that I could have been a game developer but that I'm a bit too old to start.

Never too late to take it up as a hobby!

Re: Show HN: I'm 48 and finally learning how to be a game developer

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Congratulations! Game development is what got me interested in programming in the first place. Once I put my first pixel on the screen and I figured out how to interact with it blew my mind, limitless possibilities. Since the pandemic started my wife and I have published one game [0] and currently have a second one [1] in a pre-release phase (probably going to make a separate SHOW HN post once it is live). Keep up th…

How has your experience with Unity been? It overwhelms me for 2D work.

Thanks for the links, I'm gonna check out your games!

Re: Show HN: I'm 48 and finally learning how to be a game developer

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am developer with over 20 years of experience. I have learned programming from books where computers were generally not available where I grew up. But my son is learning programming (started when he was 6, he just turned 8 recently). He started by goofing off with some robots programmed in visual languages. Then moved to goofing off even more in Scratch. When pandemic started we found a school that teaches programm…

GMS2 is a good engine. I also built a Minecraft server for my son. Started with an RP4 but he complained about lag so I finally just let him a Linux laptop.

I went with PaperMC after I found vanilla server lags. PaperMC is "built for speed" and it seems to work fine even with couple people playing.

Additionally, I can write plugins for PaperMC which is the whole point of having the server in the first place (at least in our case).

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