So Im Thinking of Coding A Game Again

This cycle happens to me pretty often. I get fed up with playing games and decide I could do better myself. I've done this ever since I can remember, although at first I started with designing my own board games. Code was a close second though, as I've discussed before I got a computer at a pretty young age, our family going from Colecovision to Atari to PC Master Race in short order. My first nintendo console was a Gamecube I bought with my own cash when I was 15 or 16.

My first REAL foray into game design, other than modifying tiny bits of code in the batch files of games (or in Windows and DOS, much to my father's dismay), was when I got my own copy of ZZT by Epic Megagames' Tim Sweeney. This simple ASCII game came with a complete, if simplified, version of the BASIC language, and things took off for me.

I won second place in a game design contest before I was even a teenager. But after that, things kind of...petered out. I tried other tools like Klik n' Play, and my father thought I should learn HTML during the big dot com bubble of the nineties, but being a rebellious know-it-all teenager I swore that macromedia flash would take over and HTML would die as a useless language with all of its frames inside of frames and altavista geocities type pages receiving the death they deserved. I can admit when I'm wrong.

Anywho, all of this comes to where I am now. I've dabbled in game design dozens of times over the years, but in my adult life I've completed very little that's noteworthy. Last year, I snagged a copy of the professional version of Gamemaker to give me a simple engine to work with, since I didn't want to go the unity route. I played with it for a few months, but eventually got frustrated and distracted by the next shiny thing.

Almost exactly a year later, and because of the same unsatisfying attempt at playing skyrim, I find myself wanting to code a very particular game. Because no fascination goes unpunished, my chrome tabs look something like this:

What I'm wondering is this: Does anyone on Steemit wish to follow me on my travels? I doubt it will be all that entertaining (I'll do my best to keep it lively though), and I'll still blog about other content. I feel that if I head down this road it's going to inevitably suck up a LOT of my time, and potentially end in me just abandoning it again. But, there's a small chance that with the motivation of posting about it on Steemit, that I might just have the gall to get through and have at least SOMETHING at the end of it all.

So what do you think? Should I post a journal of sorts about learning to code a game?

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