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depends on what you want to do. Do you want to make games? Using something like the PICO-8 will still mean you're gonna futz around. But you'll be futzing arou
by rtpg 10y ago
depends on what you want to do.
Do you want to make games? Using something like the PICO-8 will still mean you're gonna futz around. But you'll be futzing around on game design-y stuff, rather than on "how do I get pixels to the screen" futzing.
If you want to make game engines, then the pixels to the screen is the fun part.
I futzed around so much as a kid, but not because I wanted to. It was more because I didn't know any better, and was just trying to get to what I "really" wanted to futz with.
- DanBC 10y agoYes. I don't think I was clear enough with my first comment. Futzing is great, and I celebrate people who futz on this kind of level. The people who code golf a bubble sort to be one less instruction; the people who can cram a plasma and text scroller demo into 89 bytes; the people who really understand everything about a system from top to bottom, inside out and upside down. As a society we're not very good at protecting those people from harm (in the form of bullying from other students) or providing them with work that makes the most of their rare talent.