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I'm teaching myself GameDev in my 50's! If you're interested in how I'm doing, check out my YouTube channel and my Itch page.
It is great to read your journey, as a person of a similar age, it seems I have no lack of "want to do" but a serious lack of "do"... I have a shelf full of textbooks that I have not read past the first few chapters. Unfinished projects, random circuit boards and parts I can't even remember what they belong to anymore. So the fact you're actually stepping up and doing it (and putting it out there for the world to see!) is very commendable.
When I was a kid, I made some games (back in the BASIC and Pascal era), interactive text adventures mainly, and a simple text-based Pong clone. In my teenage years I was mostly making utilities & BBS-related software... I tried my hand at game dev for Sega Genesis/Mega Drive but my assembly language hacking skills were not up to par (in the 90s, when it was mostly undocumented and a much different landscape than today!). I was limited to making some simple trainers/hacks for existing games.
Good luck and I am curious to see how the rest of your learning adventure goes!
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Thank you! A text based pong clone? That sounds pretty cool :-) It's certainly a lot easier now with modern engines than it ever would have been decades ago. Sometimes I beat myself up for not starting earlier but honestly, it would have been a struggle back then.
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My "favorite" (most memorable, anyway) Pong clone was this DOS game from the '90s Pong Kombat. A mashup of Pong and Mortal Kombat, with special moves, fatalities, etc.
And while Googling that, I found someone has done a demake of it for Sega Master System. Fun... :)
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Hehe that pong game is pretty cool! I thing I have enjoyed since learning gamedev is looking round the weird and wonderful games on Itch. Until a few months ago I pretty much only used Steam, but this has opened my eyes to so many really original games!
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Itch is great for finding a lot of those kind of "under the underground" things. The barrier to entry is much lower than steam, so there are a lot of what I'd lovingly call "baby's first game"... but it is great to see how creative people are when the guardrails are taken off.
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