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Python and GDScript are pretty similar syntactically, but the latter is more game focused and doesn’t have things like decorators, list comprehensions, or context managers

I agree with your post, lots of good advice! I’d add the general advice to pick an engine or framework, learn how to use it at a basic level, and do a bunch of game jams. Even if you don’t submit, nothing will teach you more than figuring out how to go from idea to small “finished” game in a short period of time. It won’t be easy, and your games will probably suck for a while, but if you stick with it you’ll have a solid knowledge base and skillset to start building more ambitious projects. Also there are longer game jams (Godot Wild is several weeks), be careful not to burn out like OP says.

You don’t have to write your own engine. If you want to learn how games work behind the scenes knock yourself out, but I find that most people would rather make a game than a tool (which an engine inherently is).

Oh no 😅 this app has been around for over a decade so I’d be curious what a modern version would look like

This exists! https://fogofworld.app/

It’s a great idea, yours sounds a bit more restricted in viewing which I think is cool

They did the same a few days ago and deleted the post before reposting

Careful everyone, they didn’t specify programming languages! Don’t even THINK of providing a few lines of Python that would answer the question 🐍

Good point! I rarely use plain static pages, there’s usually some templating involved if I’m going through GH pages.

True, though I think GutHub does need a paid account if you want the repo to be private

You can (or at least could ~5 years ago) easily serve a static site through an s3 bucket

It’s a small community, so I wouldn’t expect to be making a living just yet 😅 Squid God was pretty big in the community making tutorials and, he shared his revenue and it looks like a little over $4k for a game he collaborated on that was released on the device’s catalog. A few of his smaller games got a combined $3k, but that’s also with the added YouTube audience helping with popularity.

The community is good though! Very open-source welcome, at least the parts I’ve interacted with.

I make stuff for the Playdate (in Lua), it’s a tiny cheese-slice-shaped gameboy with a reflective 1-bit screen and a crank!

So far I’ve Only done smaller projects like an example project and I worked with a friend to make a little face app for pictures, but I’ve got a few games that I’m going to finish up since I got my preorder last week

Heck yeah, Backbone! Did you know there’s a new maintainer on the project? He’s been busy lately trying to clean up the codebase.

I also use Semantic UI(‘s community fork, Fomantic UI) so I can avoid the hell that is modern UI frameworks. It works really well with Backbone