Hello,

I'm a former student of IT (one year) and now I study mass media. I quit because I felt not good enough to be a real programmer, but I always had a knack for mathematics and have a creative mind. IT was my dream (mainly game creating) when I was young. Now I miss it and want to go for it and do it as a non-profit hobby.

However, it isn't easy as you all know. Always being a fan of RTS or RPG games it's hard to get involved in easier projects. Never played 2D platformers, puzzle games or FPS. I know they are the way to learn, but they are the same boring to create as to play for me. Not learning much with little progress making these genres I feel lost. 

So, to the point of this post. How should I approach my problem to continue my hobby? I enjoy logical and algorithmic approach to problems and also creating simple pixel art is fun. Thank everyone for replies

Make and remake small parts of an RPG game. And RPG game as a whole is generally very complex, but each individual part is not out of reach for learning. Take one part, like the combat, and clone what you see, try to start off in the starting area before all the whizzbangs are introduced. As you get better at creating the systems, you will be able to move on to more complex things. I recommend fully intending to just get it done the first few times, and then just do what it takes to get it done, then start from scratch on your next attempt.

There is a lot about development that you will learn from doing that cannot be taught, like how and why to do things certain ways, how to organize your folders, naming conventions... etc. But the more times you go over it from scratch, the more efficient and proficient you will become. After several small projects, do a few smaller RPGs that you think will be fun, just keep the scope small. Slow increments are the way to go, much like leveling up a character.

Other options are to make simple platformer or action games that you do like to play until you get pretty good at making games. Not always an option.

Finally, you may be able to join up with other people, maybe shadow another developer. I mention this last, because it has yet to work out for me. But I have seen others get going that way.

DavinCreed: That's a good idea. Maybe it will be manageable this way. 

fleabay: I know it but thanks. Also, I like Construct and Godot engine

May be you should try simulation and strategy games as area of interest. Simulation games have a strong time component in them, strategy games give the opportunity to learn about AI.

Simple turn-based strategy games may look simple and boring, but they are hard to write an AI for, much more than RTS in fact, since in the latter you lack time to compute anything really smart.

1 minute ago, Alberth said:

May be you should try simulation and strategy games as area of interest. Simulation games have a strong time component in them, strategy games give the opportunity to learn about AI.

Simple turn-based strategy games may look simple and boring, but they are hard to write an AI for, much more than RTS in fact, since in the latter you lack time to compute anything really smart.

Programming ai will be sure a lot of fun a something harder to get into also. Thanks  but  I don't understand how simulation have a strong time component. Maybe because of my not so good English...

In a simulation, all things in the simulation move at the same time, possibly at different speeds. If you have a train at 40km/h and one at 50km/h, the latter should move faster than the former.

Your program has to handle that, updating position of both (or many) trains each iteration. Stuff doesn't move by itself.

If you also relate game speed to real-time, the amount of update also depends on the change of wall-clock time, since the last time you looked.

Hmm okey. Turn-based seem like a much better and easier way to me now.