August 12, 2024
I wanted to evolve my coding skills and thought... I love games so why not kill 2 birds with 1 stone and practice my coding while building a simple game? Yeah yeah I know, most games are built with Unity or Unreal engine and using C# or C++ but I just wanted to build a simple game to start off with.
With the research I've done, I found some simple games can be created with Python. Yeah Python, a backend language mainly used for developing websites and software, task automation, data analysis, data visualizations and such. Pygame is a framework of python where SIMPLE games can be created, where the screen mostly stays static. You know, like platform games, maze games, pong, tetris, etc. So relatively, I found it was fairly easy to use, I just followed its documentation and things started rolling. I created a basic game type racer game, dinosaur theme 😂 I called it, DinoType.
Overall, this was an incredibly fun project to build. Obviously it's not perfect and there's much more improvmenet that needs to be implemented... But that's the beauty of it! Testing the game and seeing it actually working was so satisfying for me. Like, I built a game and I never imagined I would be capable of it. I've always just played the games but never built one.
Anyways, I'm going to be improving it whenever I get the time and hopefully when I'm happy enough with it, maybe I'll deploy it 👀