All my firsts projects were assignments of different classes during my career.

The first projects I did where all in Pascal and wheren't really interesting... parsing files or working with structures.

The first "game" project I did was a game witout input and without GUI. It was a simulation of drilling machines from different teams moving through the ground collecting things and attacking other drillers. It sounds kind of good, but it was really boring, everything happened in a second and the winnier team was stored in a file. Code in C++ to learn about OOP.

The first project with a real GUI was a math app, there was a field to write a 2D math function (y = f(x)) and some ranges, and the function was drawn between those ranges. After drawing a function you could calculate the derivate on a point or the integrate between 2 points. It was all in Java and Swing.

My first playable game was a Zuma clone with C++/SDL. The game was fully playable with some levels... I have that code somewhere in my PC, it would be fun to look at it years later.

My first game was a frogger game in visual basic. I remember when I first got the frog icon to move and the traffic going. It was a really memorable moment. It had no collision and was never finished but it kicked started curiosity that brought me to c++.

I havent made anything useful in c++ or anything cool. Its not that I dont understand the language its hard for me to understand external libraries and get them working without feeling like im not really sure what im doing. Perhaps the libraries I try and use are to big and bulky like game engines.

My first project was totally overzealous. XD I was attempting to use darkbasic to make a model of a plane fly around (and if it hit terrain, explode).

I didn't have any discipline then, so i was able to do the plane bit.... but making the collisions happen? Never happened.

I then went to gamemake and RPG maker.... eventually AGS... Just playing with all the simple things...

Before I realized that I REALLY needed to be serious otherwise my creative potential would be limited.

Prior to attending game school I made that first GameMaker tutorial about clicking bouncing objects in a little room.

But my first non-tutorial game was a text-based dice game made in C# for our introductory scripting class. That was in early 2010.

Personally, I made my own text adventure, in 20kb : and it was expansive! (on Acorn Electron)

Then I made a platformer in Basic, which highlighted the crappinest of Basic!

I then when on to reproduce the 'moon lander' game in assembly. What an experience! The electron was dire at sprites - if you wanted any kind of performance you did it in assembly - except assembly in 'them days' looked like "Poke[ 5, 15, 254, 198, 62, 120, 78, 97] - which you called directly from your program! they were machine code instructions!

Ah, back then the most stressed I ever got was over the value in the accumulator! - most of the readers of this will not have a clue as to what I am talking about!

80's programming was hard/cool/educational/did I say hard? lol