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I think making games is easy to some people, at the right time in their life. When I was a kid, my older brother could reproduce any game he saw. He saw Tetris
by mcv 3y ago
I think making games is easy to some people, at the right time in their life.
When I was a kid, my older brother could reproduce any game he saw. He saw Tetris and he built it. I described a Mario game (well before Super Mario) and he built it. He wrote a text adventure. Later he learned proper programming and stopped making games. I don't think he can do it any more, but at that time, it seemed to be easy for him.
Of course games changed a lot since the early 1980s. But on the other hand, to make a game without all these modern frameworks and game engines, also adds an additional barrier that he easily overcame.
- OmarShehata 3y agoI think the hard part is the initial phase, before you know how to make things move, how to draw to the screen, how to handle multiple states of multiple objects without the code getting incredibly messy and unmaintainable etc. If I had to guess I'd say your brother spent a lot of time building many little things before getting to a point where he can quickly build a basic prototype of any game he saw.