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I already posted my thoughts on this game so this is more just a small question to the dev since I don't thing there is a direct messaging system on this website yet?:

It amazes me how you're a junior high student and managed to create a game like this as it both looks and plays itself incredibly clean, so mad respect. May I know which program you used and how much time of experience you have? I'd love to start working on one or two of my own game ideas but I don't know if it's worth to start just now since I won't have the time to continue in a few months

edit: well yeah looks like all i had to do was to click on "more information" lol. But still, I'd be interested to know for how long you've been doing this

JordiBoi2 years ago(+1)

thank you so much man! It truly means alot. And the truth is im still very new to game development, i learnt how to use unreal engine while i was making my first game on my page, so it was like semi trying out different things and semi trying to make a game. And the shopping list is my second game after getting used to the engine. So i havent really made any games except this one and my first one as a learning ue4 game!

I spent about 2-3 months making the shopping list and thats while also having ALOT of tests in school and not having to much time to work on a game.

But even though i barely had any time to work on the game i still found maybe like an hour to work on it, and it really motivates you to continur when you make small progress towards the ending of the game. So dont worry about it taking too long! Think of it as being something that you can turn to whenever you feel like it, dont force yourself to work on the game because that lack of passion will show. Instead work on the game when you feel ”Oh i really wanna add this in the game, or continue working on it” because thats what will keep you motivated and thats also what will show the passion in your game!

if you have a game idea that your passionate about then you should really go for it, when you make a game from an idea that you like, that passion will show in your work. Go for it!

Khirek2 years ago

Thanks man I really appreciate it, I've had these ideas for months now and they are more just interesting little thoughts rather than fully fletched game ideas. I thought needing to know how to code would be a huge barrier but you really motivated me to just start and try!

JordiBoi2 years ago(+1)

Yeah man i really think you should try! And learning code isnt that difficult once you get the hang of different things. After a while of coding you should be able to create whatever you want, coding is basically just using very simple logic that anyone can understand in a goofy language. But once you get used to what does what you will eventually get to that point where you can create anything you want in your game and improvise the code for that specific thing in your game!

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