It's been three years

scorchsaber · 2007-03-26T10:33:52

Three years since I joined and posted on this forum. My old posts are here. Thank you to Simian Man for linking to them. I was 13 three years ago. I wanted to be a game designer, or a game developer, or a game artist, or anything to do with making games. So I once stumbled across here, and I posted a thread about wanting something easy to use, with "no programming". It was such a pathetic (and badly typed out) post that people thought it was a joke, and actually laughed. I reacted pretty badly, but that event stuck with me for a long time. Even back then I was trying to learn to program. I went about it all the wrong ways, trying to learn C/C++, or &#106avascript. I failed in all attempts (even the &#106avascript one), and I know the reason: I was trying to make a game. I failed in all attempts because my sole goal was to create games, and no matter the language, that takes a slight bit of time, at the least. Time which I wasn't ready for, I wanted to make games then, the now of the moment. I failed, in all cases, because I didn't have the patience to try anything but game design. About two years after this, I'd changed a lot. Hell, after one year I'd changed a lot. But after two I had gotten my first TI-83+. I learned to program on this, and not making games. I learned by making little utilities and such. I soon progressed, moving in the first few months to VB.NET (to make games), to C# (there was better support for games), and then a couple months after to Python (far better support for games, and cross-platform). During that time I also developed my first fully functional game, Pong, for the TI-83+. Since then I've learned a couple new languages, I've progressed a lot more after learning python and starting up a project for a text rpg, and changed my career goals vastly. Even though I'm relatively new to programming, I do think I have one piece of advice to give out to prospective game developers: to not develop games, but programs for yourself. I'm not sure which subforum was the best fit for this. [Edited by - scorchsaber on March 26, 2007 9:35:03 AM]

For Beginners

Started by scorchsaber March 26, 2007 07:30 AM

13 comments, last by Taharez 17 years ago

Prozak

899

March 26, 2007 10:05 AM

You're officially a Programmer!

Now, don't smile for too long, I need that C++ program to talk to that PHP code, and I need by yesterday!

[wink]

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Spoonbender

1,258

March 26, 2007 10:22 AM

Nice post, and I'm glad you've 1) stuck around despite early criticism, and 2) posted this.
I'm gonna bookmark this thread because it's always so hard to convince beginners that they need to start small. Your post may help.

ratings++ [grin]

Taharez

203

March 26, 2007 10:33 AM

The best read I've had in this forum so far I think :) Good insights for beginners, would be great if everyone took a look at your story when first coming here. I do think you can learn from doing games too, as ApochPiQ said, it's about setting goals with the right difficulty. My first real program was an extremely simple game in VB btw ;)

boldyman

138

March 26, 2007 11:49 AM

Good post!!
Every beginner think he/she can write the next Unreal engine.
But there all get disappointed. Write small apps and go from there !!

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ApochPiQ

23,138

March 26, 2007 12:16 PM

Words of wisdom. The best way to learn is practice, and the most effective practice is on projects that are just slightly beyond your current skills, forcing you to stretch and learn - but just a little bit at a time.

Congratulations on sticking with it and coming this far [smile]

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