What is something like a hobby or skill that you belive almost anybody should give a try, and what makes your suggestion so good compared to other things?

i feel like this is a descent question i guess.

  • ShySpark@lemmy.fmhy.mlOP
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    1 year ago

    ive been wanting to get into game dev but it seems like alot of work and i suck at everything, also im limted with software and im not even sure what game engine or thing to use, if that makes sense. do you hav eany advice or something you want to share?

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      1 year ago

      Python with PyGame can be quite a good start. And if you’re just trying to build something for fun maybe use free assets from the internet.

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        1 year ago

        Taught myself python at 50 years of age. My God, being able to code is like a superpower. I started out doing some things to make my job easier, later developed an interest in web scraping and data analysis, now I am tinkering with machine learning. I regret listening to people who told me that a strong background in math is required for coding.

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        1 year ago

        I can only assume you got downvoted for this because people think you’re advocating stealing assets. So for anyone else reading this, there are actually whole websites devoted to providing free assets for use in games.

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          1 year ago

          Maybe it’s a bug, but I don’t see any downvotes on my side (from kBin). Didn’t thought it was needed to specify that indeed, you should only use assets that are listed as free.

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            1 year ago

            I’m treating votes as rough indicators at best anyway as they never seem to be the same depending where you’re looking at a post from. #FederatedWorldProblems