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I have made some money on crypto and I left my programming job 5 years ago. I have had some reservations, like can I still learn new stuff, would I be efficient enough with it to make anything valuable, how can I compete with the young guys. And I still don't have answers, the project seems to crawl so very slowly. But I enjoy the work.
Cool. 49 yr old Canadian here that also started game dev this year. Best of luck in your future endeavours.
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…
Thank you for sharing your story, it warms me up to hear about people pursuing their dreams - I'm excited to see what games you develop for us. Give us more to play!
Congratulations in actually releasing a game! It is never too late to learn anything, what matters is being able to enjoy doing it. Good luck with whatever else comes up.
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Do you post your WIPs anywhere?
I usually post gifs on Twitter (same username), but I've been doing more web dev recently. 2016-2018 are full of abandoned prototypes. Finished stuff and ludum dare entries get posted to my website at (username).com
Ah, it requires iOS 15. Will try again after I get a chance to upgrade.
Thank you!
I think you might find these topics useful, especially Jonathan Blow's as he notes changes (we have more abstractions that take us away from gaming progamming which was easier before). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25788317 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29127098 One interesting note was that TempleOS which is called a religious OS had a Commadore64 structure and it was apparently easy to make games on i…
I moved to Godot because you can totally configure it to suit your needs. You can compile the engine yourself, rewrite the editor, etc. When exporting our game to iOS and Android, I was a bit disconcerted that it was around 100MB...and it's just a jumping game! I tried to pare down all the graphical assets to be as light and as undemanding as possible; but ultimately, a good chunk of that was overhead.
There were instructions on how to strip away all the 3D parts of the engine and just recompile...but I chickened out. Not confident enough at the moment but I'm learning. I might try doing that when we push the next update.
Thanks again. Really appreciate it.
I am 48 and I am finally learning machine learning with neural networks. I have made some money on crypto and I left my programming job 5 years ago. I have had some reservations, like can I still learn new stuff, would I be efficient enough with it to make anything valuable, how can I compete with the young guys. And I still don't have answers, the project seems to crawl so very slowly. But I enjoy the work.
We have some advantages that only accrue with age. It seems you have a nest egg that lets you do what you want to do, that's a major thing. Also, you have a professional, social and experiential foundation that serves you in good stead.
I'm happy for your enjoyment. Best of luck!
Congratulations on publishing the game. I do have a giggle on your privacy policy.