The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙Feb 20

I don't know anything about making a video game, but I really... really... REALLY want to make my own some day, before I die.

Are there any paths for a person who doesn't know coding and isn't sure they can learn it at this point to make a game?

I was learning Godot before I got Long Covid and it sort of erased that info out of my brain and filled the place that it used to be with static that seems to be prohibiting me from writing new video game learning data to myself.

I have an idea for a story, a setting, multiple game mechanics, and have been using my pixel art drawing challenge thing as a way to try and generate some monsters to fill the world. I just have no clue how to actually... make it.

I've considered just going the "Vermis" route, making the walkthroughs and guides that would go with a game that doesn't actually exist as a sort of art project that would make my game kiiiiinda exist, but I feel like that's setting my bar lower than I want it to be.

Thoughts? Help?

#Indiegame #videogames

Show threadMatthew Smith

@thevhswizard This has always been something on my "bucket" list as a developer. I work on backend services and marketing stuff as a consultant and it's really not where I thought I'd be when I jumped into software dev as a teen.

I studied game dev in my younger years, learned some Godot and some Unity ... but my day job kicks my butt and its always so hard to stay focused on that goal. Mix in family, life, and the side job I do to survive .. I always get siderailed once I have a small prototype of Guy Walking On Screen haha

Good luck! Sounds like planning, guides, and ideating on the game is a good start!

Feb 20 at 6:15pmWeb