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[โ€“] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (4 children)
  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
  5. ...

Whom am I kidding, go do all of that! Learn why you most probably shouldn't ๐Ÿ˜†

[โ€“] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)
  1. Don't make an MMORPG as your first ever game with only you and your one friend as devs
[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year 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

[โ€“] drew_belloc 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What is this smell? Is that the smell of self experience?

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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

[โ€“] MagicShel 4 points 1 year ago

Oh, was it you who made Sociolotron?

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Ew, knowledge and experience, pweh disgusting

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I want to learn how to write a physics engine.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year 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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What if I make an OS that's also a game engine?

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Microsoft bob in 3D with a Gmod physics gun