Do you have a hobby you've always wanted to dive into, but ended up putting off for years? Because, well, you gotta work and pay the bills, right? Yeah, same here...
I've had one since 2016, when I bought my first gamedev bundle from Humble Bundle. But this year, I finally decided to dedicate at least 3 hours a week to this hobby.
The idea is to try to link this GameDev activity with other goals I currently have. That way, at least in theory, I can invest time in the hobby and align it with creating articles, videos, and joining game jams. And of course, meeting new and interesting people in the process, which is amazing by itself, right?
Back around 2016–17, I actually joined a game jam using the Defold engine, and it was an incredible experience. But this time, I wanted to start again from something more basic, so I picked a tool called PICO-8.
By coincidence, right after I made that decision, I saw a call for a PICO-8 game jam for beginners organized by nerdyteachers.com. Even though I signed up a bit late, I was still able to join, and it was a lot of fun just going through the creative process, but once was a late submission, I just count it as a call for action move.
BUT,in this last weekend I attended to a very small Gamejam to put my PICO8 skills at prove and HA! I got the 2 place.
I took from me my whole weekend but it was a very enjoyable and rich experience, if you want to try the last version of my game it is published in my site or if you want to check the source code it is available in by github.
And you, have you ever explored this game development world?
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