NostraDavid

If it’s a Type-A, add a little Type-A to Type-C converter in the bag as well. Just in case.

SSD would be 100% dead unless you buried it with a power source.

Huh? Why? Should SSDs not be able to contain data without power?

Alan Turing, I bet

Nee hoor, dat doen wij helemaal niet!

Start with pen and paper - no computer, because that’ll just distract you.

Write down what kind of game you want to make. Sketch out what you want your player to see when they play the game (top down, third person, first person; which UI elements should they see? Health? Mana or power bars? Selected items?). Does it have a story of sorts? What kind of setting (future, past, fantasy, sci-fi). 2D or 3D? What kind of visual style are you going for (realistic, cartoony, abstract?).

This will be your Game Design Document. You don’t have to get it perfectly at the first go - iterate over it, scratch things that you feel won’t work.

Once you have something that looks like a minimally viable product (MVP), THEN you can start making something in Godot, Game Maker, or Love2D. Because now you have something to follow along. Try to get something out ASAP, because feedback from people who are not you is important. Maybe you made something that feels fun to you, but no one else likes it - you would want to know that as soon as possible, not after toiling away for 5 years.

Do not start caring about “what is the fastest programming language”. Even the slowest of languages are fine, because you’re learning how to build a game, not how to program like a pro.

I would argue we have a whole list of purposes:

• procreate
• copulate
• mate
• engage in sexual reproduction
• propagate the species
• reproduce
• conceive life
• bring forth offspring
• weave new generations
• kindle the spark of life
• sow the seeds of tomorrow
• whip up some womb-biscuits
• bake a bun in the baby oven
• start a stork-summoning ritual
• do the chromosome cha-cha
• know each other in the biblical sense
• lie together
• hook up
• get it on
• do the deed
• bump uglies
• initiate a genetic merge request
• fork the DNA repo
• compile the next generation
• instantiate another human

I think you got the gist.

And in the meantime also entertain ourselves, of course.

Eh, I liked it for explaining how people can behave differently.

It doesn’t have much predictive power, and thus is bad science, but I like its descriptive power. I also think it’s a bad idea to see it as a quaterny (binary, trinery, …) instead of a spectrum. Same with being introverted/extraverted - that’s a spectrum as well, IMO.