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

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

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Post by andylynch »

qiqitori wrote: post #111
bananabat wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks! I've always been fascinated by electronics and I so envy people in that domain. I bought an Arduino board (sorry if that's totally kiddie to you) and some parts and so far, my son and I have made a little robot that runs very inefficiently on 9-volt batteries. I just want to plug the damn thing in to overcome the power issue.

(I don't know how much you know about electronics so sorry if I'm stating the obvious here) 9V batteries sound and look like they should last long, but putting 6 1.5V batteries in series should last much longer. 9V batteries have a typical capacity of ~550 mAh, 1.5V batteries (even rechargeable ones) have a typical capacity of 2000~3000 mAh.

Of course 9v batteries are just six 1.5 cells in a rectangular pack- often they are even made of round cells like AAA, only much smaller.

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

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Post by andy800 »

bananabat wrote: post #132
andy800 wrote: post #110

Nice. I turned 50 this year, I created a custom Tecmo Super Bowl ROM (for original NES) with my college friends as the players and a bunch of custom graphics and mods referencing our jokes and incidents from back in the day. There is a community dedicated to the game that helped with some of it, but I definitely had to dive deep into hex editing to add all the elements I wanted.

How come you didn't continue making games?

Sorry if my post was confusing -- I created the game this year as a way of celebrating turning 50 and reconnecting with my college friends, we were all obsessed with Tecmo when it first came out in 1991.

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

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Post by andretti1977 »

I'm here just to congrat with you, I love everything you wrote in your write up, so inspiring! What you did is something small but so meaningful! No big dreams startup, simply live your life living its up-side-downs and loving that and after some time, doing something simple but joyful! So simple, but to these days, so great!

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

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Post by rpastuszak »

ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #163

It’s gratifying to see this remain #1 on HN for so long. I sincerely wish you luck. I like your privacy policy: https://13bananas.com/privacy-policy/

haha, and I used to be really proud of mine: https://sonnet.io/tommy-the-toe/policy/

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

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Post by rpastuszak »

That's so wonderful to hear and I wish you all best.

I make little games (inspired mostly by burnout):

How to Run an All-hands meeting: https://rafsters.itch.io/all-hands

Tommy the Toe and the Chamber of Hostile Carpentry: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/tommy-the-toe/id1498417487

> And since then, I've been a copywriter, graphic designer, business owner, immigrant,

Sounds like your skill-set is very well rounded. From my experience, coding was the easiest part, marketing and narrowing down the game logic to what's really needed/fun is always so hard. Congrats!

If you want to exchange ideas or just chat about your experience making indie games, I'm running occasional pairing/rant sessions, where everyone can just call me and chat: https://sonnet.io/posts/hi/

If you're interested in a chat, give me a shout! Otherwise, good luck! It makes me so happy to see people building stuff like this. Thank you.

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