• @jarfil@beehaw.org
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    3410 months ago
    1. Don’t roll out your own crypto suite
    2. Don’t write your own game engine
    3. Don’t create your own OS from scratch
    4. Don’t build another multipurpose framework

    Whom am I kidding, go do all of that! Learn why you most probably shouldn’t 😆

    • Norgur
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      2510 months ago
      1. Don’t make an MMORPG as your first ever game with only you and your one friend as devs
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          10 months ago

          Yet depressingly common in MMORPG circles. People tend to vastly underestimate the amount of work needed to get an remotely playable MMO off the ground.

          • SonotsugipaaOP
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            410 months ago

            I’ve entertained the idea, and the first to requirements that come to mind are advertising money and server upkeep money - then one could start worrying about actually making it

        • Norgur
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          310 months ago

          Nah, I can’t tell a Class from a Function in most programming languages. I ain’t making no game.

          • 257m
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            110 months ago

            You won’t be able to mistake the two if you don’t use Classes.

      • @jarfil@beehaw.org
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        410 months ago

        Those are easy, unless you want 128bit resolution, relativistic effects, collisions, or fancy stuff like that.

        PS: Bonus points if you write one without collision detection, then sell it as a game on Steam.

        PS2: Super Bonus points if you make it 64bit, then keep crowd-funding it for 10 years.

      • SonotsugipaaOP
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        610 months ago

        Hear me out: a fully fledged desktop environment, like KDE Plasma or Gnome, but it’s a 3D world - “windows” are just walls, the file explorer is just a bunch of procedurally generated condos, and you get a Gmod physics gun to move stuff around.