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common-json · 5 months ago

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Project, GO!

Plus > What drives me?

This is common.json, a database of all that I have learned.

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You ever feel like you're in over your head? That's me every day.

So I lean into it. Here's my big goal for my big project. Will it ever get finished? Maybe. Will it take forever? Definitely. Will I ever be satisfied? No way. But it's a learning experience.

Out with it then, I'm making a game.

Tough sell, but it's a big dream of mine. I'd say I've wanted to create an interactive adventure since I was about 5 and the first permanent connections began wiring themselves in my grey matter noodle.

I played Super Mario World on a Super NES and thought this was the greatest miracle of human engineering and that it must be replicated.

None of that matters though. What does is that I'd better get to work. It took until late high school for me to realize that I actually could pursue that dream and then start doing just that.

Every time I am impressed by how not impossible it is. I will always tote that it's not that hard to do any of it, but I'd be lying to say that it is a simple process. (or that it doesn't take too long).

I guess the lesson in that is all that it takes to do something is just doing it.

I'd be the first to tell you that I am not a super talented individual. I'm the "one they call to fix the broken computer". Not a whole lot of merit to that title.

I'm not an artist, hardly a programmer, definitely can't make music, and all-around don't fit the bill to be a game developer.

Yet.

I don't meet those requirements yet, but I figure the only way to force myself to learn these things is trial by fire. This isn't some simple game I can crank out in a week. Forget that, forget game jamming. This is the one thing they tell you not to do, but I'm driven to the point that I will do it because it's fun and it is fast.

In the end, I've discovered yet another lesson reflecting on this: there is no motivation to learn without delusions of grandeur.

"What?" I mean that you won't gain anything without a reason to gain it. This is a thing I want, so I will do it. I'll figure it out and I will get what I want, and I will do that by obtaining all the skills to do this on my own.

Sounds a bit impish, but I think this is the best way to get my foot in the door. At least, it is for me, this is probably awful general advice. Starting with the impossible will make the possible easy.

Anywho, the purpose of this post. This page is where I will document my thoughts, process, advancements, skills gained, and overall experience with this project as well as the project itself.

I have no intention of attracting the algorithm here. At least for now. Just the raw output of me interacting with my own work. Enjoy.

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