If you could go back in time in your game dev journey, what would you tell your noob self?

For me is, try to learn only from reputable sources ONLY.

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Don’t do it in the nineties.

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Don’t skip math in school, its a mf to learn alone.

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Here’s how you’re going to create this game that you’ll call Minecraft. You’ll thank me later.

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don’t buy a bunch of assets that are not supported / dropped by their creators.

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“Don’t make a habit of this. Trust me.”

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“The commie government will fail before you’re reaching adulthood. You won’t have to smuggle your computers into the country anymore. So you can choose this as a profession.” - or something like that.

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“Give up”. “Go outside”.

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“Woah, you do know that in ten to twenty years that full head of hair will be gone?” “Happy deving.”

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Hahaha.

Focus on artwork as much as you focus on programming.

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I’d say something along the lines of “listen to the shit these people are about to tell you, because your going to do it wrong over and over and over, and they are gonna laugh at you then tell you what your doing wrong and your going to only halfway listen, so open your mind and stop trying to be a one man band, or at the very least do it for 10 hours a day and fail faster”.

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In a few years, you’re going to get super better, at art and 3d art.
Keep drawing and continue practicing 3d modelling.
The more you continue practicing drawing and 3d, the better you’ll get at art sooner. But you already know that.

Me: Wait…For real?..Dude.:hushed:
Oh wait, yeah.:smile:

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Dont start a new project if you have project which is not finished yet =)

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You’ve been learning programming since you were a kid, if you want to make a game, why not study art instead at university?

Disclaimer: I studied programming and learnt f-all at university as by the time I arrived I had been programming for 10 years…

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If I went back in time butterfly effect could mean I wouldn’t meet my beautiful wife or my kids would never be, no way!

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What would I tell myself?

Just make the f***ing game!

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Actually I take my answer back, if I could travel in time:

  • Go back and grab a bunch of dinosaurs
  • Jump forward with said dinosaurs and use them to kill hitler before the war starts
  • Spend the rest of the now peaceful 1930s and 1940s using said dinosaur to set up a jurassic park rip off (before jurassic park exists making it a totally 100% original idea)
  • Enjoy the profits you rake in from jurassic park centered at the heart of a now peaceful post nazi era germany
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…You know the whole Jurassic Park series is about how playing god is… wrong… right?

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