I wanted to make video games as a kid. I tried things like opening up executable files in Notepad to see if I could figure out what was going on, but it was all

I wanted to make video games as a kid. I tried things like opening up executable files in Notepad to see if I could figure out what was going on, but it was all junk. I eventually found some game creation systems online, and their communities had a bunch of coders and other creative types. I also emailed game developers, one of which set me up with a proper compiler and pushed me in the right direction I spent a lot of time in the local library checking out software books, browsing a website called Programmer's Heaven that had a bunch of useful text and source files, and experimenting a lot The more I learned, the greater the scopes of my projects became. But it never stopped being something that was both driven by curiosity and also had satisfying progression