What? 100 part for a match 3 game? So I went to look it up, sure enough 76 part video. Fuck that bro, I mean your majesty, I was about to come and say that sounds like it's a you problem. But it's not, you picked a shit starter tutorial.
The idea is to have a foundation, get comfortable with navigating around the UI, and tinker with the code to see if you can modify and improve the tutorial game based on what you've learned. It's okay to break thing. Low time investment. (stop reading here)
(rant) It's not for everyone, and it's not "fun", but I think it's rewarding, I like to think some of the really bad shit I made is my love letter to the world. There is no better time in history to start being an indie dev. No cost start, free video tutorials, royalty free engine, AI coding assist and asset gen, low system requirements, self publishing. Of course it's also the worst time to be an indie dev, satiated market, don't expect to make money off it, for every Vampire Survivor there are thousands of good, polished games that never get the attention it deserves. But then I see some motherfucker who puts up a pixel platformer for 2 dollars on the Nintendo eshop and it plays like some 2008 flash game and it's on the featured or curated part of the shop and I go: that can be me, my shovelware could be featured and then I'd be swimming in tens of dollars! And that keeps me going.
Yeah, it's not for me. Like I said, that itch gets scratched in D&D prep, trying to trick the VTT into doing what I want. That way, my progress sees immediate use the next time we play.
I've never had someone acknowledge my royalty on here. If you ever need to make a new account, I grant you permission to come back as Sir_Jack.
What? 100 part for a match 3 game? So I went to look it up, sure enough 76 part video. Fuck that bro, I mean your majesty, I was about to come and say that sounds like it's a you problem. But it's not, you picked a shit starter tutorial.
While I can't give you a good tutorial to start with I will say that you want to aim for something that will show you results quickly at first, 10 minute snake video, 2 hour vamp survivor, 10 minute 2d platformer
I'll try a few of what I listed this weekend just so I put my money where my mouth is. Including this recently uploaded one.
The idea is to have a foundation, get comfortable with navigating around the UI, and tinker with the code to see if you can modify and improve the tutorial game based on what you've learned. It's okay to break thing. Low time investment. (stop reading here)
(rant) It's not for everyone, and it's not "fun", but I think it's rewarding, I like to think some of the really bad shit I made is my love letter to the world. There is no better time in history to start being an indie dev. No cost start, free video tutorials, royalty free engine, AI coding assist and asset gen, low system requirements, self publishing. Of course it's also the worst time to be an indie dev, satiated market, don't expect to make money off it, for every Vampire Survivor there are thousands of good, polished games that never get the attention it deserves. But then I see some motherfucker who puts up a pixel platformer for 2 dollars on the Nintendo eshop and it plays like some 2008 flash game and it's on the featured or curated part of the shop and I go: that can be me, my shovelware could be featured and then I'd be swimming in tens of dollars! And that keeps me going.
Yeah, it's not for me. Like I said, that itch gets scratched in D&D prep, trying to trick the VTT into doing what I want. That way, my progress sees immediate use the next time we play.
I've never had someone acknowledge my royalty on here. If you ever need to make a new account, I grant you permission to come back as Sir_Jack.