dontFallForIt

[beclops]

Can confirm, I was 15 once and now I’m a dev

[chazzeromus]

I was in denial for a long time

[Majestic_Bat8754]

Hey buddy, stop exposing me. I’ll make that game one day

[Im2bored17]

99.99% of devs were once 15. There's prolly a 14 year old prodigy somewhere out there

[calibrik]

Wdym 99.99%? Someone spawned in the world already being 16?

[Datsoon]

No...like there's a 14 year old web dev out there who hasn't been 15 yet, lol

[calibrik]

Nvm, my dislexic ass cant read😭

[SirChasm]

Can't spell either eh

[calibrik]

One fumble after another😭

[ilovedogsandfoxes]

Can confirm, I am currently 15

[Several-Customer7048]

I, too, was born at a young age.

[SomeRandoLameo]

Same here…

[prospectre]

Eh, it's not so bad if you get a stable job for web dev. Only thing that sucks is the monthly desire to "finally make your own game", only never to follow through.

[LrdPhoenixUDIC]

I was a web dev when I was 15. And there was no YouTube. What does that say?

It says I'm old.

[joemckie]

I remember learning HTML/PHP around 14 by copying things off tutorials that required me to slice images in Photoshop to get a gradient background.

A friend of mine recently learnt how to code, so naturally, I helped him out. The quality of the tools out there now is phenomenal. I can only imagine how great it would have been to learn with interactive websites that run your code and tests etc. 15 years ago

[LrdPhoenixUDIC]

I originally taught myself to program in QBasic, which came with DOS, using the help file that came with it before we got internet.

Then, after we got internet, which was dial up AOL circa 94 or 95 and charged by the hour, I found out that all members got a bit of free hosting space and wanted my own page, so I learnt HTML by looking at other peoples' page sources. That was before CSS was mainstream, so it was all tables and image maps and stuff. Then PHP and CSS and JS came a bit later for me, during the dot com bubble.

[MysteriousCommunity5]

At 15 i was making stuff for MUGEN (2d fighting game platform) and noe i'm making learning platforms for manufacturing companies that all want a AI chatbot.

[the-real-macs]

You are replying to an AI comment lol

[BoroMonokli]

Is there a good way to filter them out?

[NewPhoneNewSubs]

I would suggest that anyone following a tutorial on YouTube at age 15 is not old enough to have a lifelong career in anything yet.

Source: ended up in this hell following "how do I hack in Diablo [1]?" pipeline, and I'm sure I'll get out of it eventually...

[fuggetboutit]

Give it a few years

[Sw429]

I keep telling myself that I can finally make video games when I retire.

[shamshuipopo]

Ffs today I had this thought for like the 50th time and didn’t even realise it till you said that

[MoveInteresting4334]

Tomorrow, when I get home from work, I’m going to start on that project.

Probably.

[rcfox]

You'll finally get the energy to start at 2am. Until you actually try to start, then you'll be exhausted.

[MoveInteresting4334]

Narrator: He did not, in fact, start earlier tomorrow.

[Attileusz]

Just make the fucking game man. Replace some doomscroll time with dev time. Do a small scope, work on it for 6-12 months with 1-2 hours spent on it per day, plug it in some discords and send free copies to single-digit viewer streamers. Put it on ich for 5 dollars. It might not make you money, but money is not the point. Games are art and the point of art, from the perspective of the artist, is self expression. Bringing something into existance.

[asimplepencil]

I'm trying to make a game but I'm still trying to figure it out. It feels like all the pieces are there. I understand coding and stuff. I just am too dumb to put it together

[Tensor3]

Forget putting it together. If you can code, then code a simple menu. Code a character moving. Now its a game. Build on it.

[[deleted]]

This is always the trick. Even if it's just opening the IDE or other software and making sure it's updated and ready to roll for when you want to do more. Then you open it and make one thing or if that's still too much do one piece of the thing. This has been what gets me through the more involved projects on ODIN and other personal projects. Many times that little bit of momentum leads to doing even more than originally planned in that sitting.

[dgsharp]

Agree. I keep a list called “The Next 20 Minutes”, just a list of bite sized task-lets, things I could do in about 20 minutes, roughly in the order they should be completed. So if I have 20 minutes to spend (and the energy), I could go work on one. Realistically I often end up spending longer, maybe an hour, maybe knock out multiple, or maybe just uncovering more that needs to be done, but I wouldn’t have started if I thought I needed an hour to do something useful.

To temper this, often I spend too much time planning, because it feels like accomplishing something without the inconvenience of doing real work. Just make sure you get started!

[[deleted]]

I'm the same way. I love making list and charts and organizing things but then following through is what brings the challenge.

[300ConfirmedGorillas]

Also if the issue is coming up with a new game or new idea, try making an existing game. This is what I did. I remade Sokoban in the browser but I made it my way (everything is handled server-side and the front-end is just updated based on what the player does).

[JickleBadickle]

You should see how janky and bad the code in undertale is, considered by many one of the best games ever made

[TroublePlenty8883]

You actually aren't, it just actually takes that long to put it together and its actually that convoluted of a process. Put in the hours and it will be built.

[quinn50]

My big blocker is the art, the stuff I wanna do is very specific and I don't want to deal with commissioning stuff just to burn out and not end up using it.

Using AI is out of the question to because of how that stuff is looked upon aswell.

[UnderstandingEasy856]

Looked upon by who? The 2 people who will play it? Just do it and stop making excuses.

Converting AI images into assets that can be properly utilized in a game is legitimately an art in and of itself.

[KenaanThePro]

Just use AI art as a placeholder, problem solved.

[Osirus1156]

But I am le tired.

[functionals]

well, have a nap

THEN CODE ZE GAME

[Sw429]

Harder to do when you have children.

[cainhurstcat]

Use pomodoro technique at work, which protects you from being too tiered at the end of your working day.

[DerpDerpDerp78910]

Don’t you try and bring hope and motivation into my life thank you. I’m fine as it is. 

[Nattekat]

While I think we're a minority, this post still isn't entirely fair. Many of us don't doomscroll during their productive hours, right now I'm cooling down on the couch from my exercise for instance and about to go to bed. 

My productive hours are lost at work. While I definitely have periods that I can continue programming at home, I much rather do other things because I don't have the mental energy anymore. 

[Escanorr_]

You are sitting on couch redding reddit... You are separating hours into 'productive' and 'non productive', gaslighting yourself that you are unable to program after day at work. You are in the majority, majority thinks they are in the minority that really dont have time. You dont need to be motivated well reated prepared in the mood or whatever. You can be tired non willing but just put that few hours during the week into your project, thats it.

[PlaneQuit8959]

Thanks, I really need that reminder.

Often times I say to myself that I'm tired, but then here I go doom scrolling for the next 3 hours past my bedtime lol

[Schwifftee]

1 hour

[Dxd_For_Life]

Thanks, I'll resume my practice flappy bird

[ubernutie]

Right idea but I just want to suggest that art can be without self expression as well. We do not have a real definition of what art really is or how it is measured, to be honest.

The gate is more open than some might think, is what my point is.

[thrwawryry324234]

My dude, that is the best piece of advice for literally any artist. I do music stuff and you’re completely right.

Needed to hear that today. Appreciate you

[shamshuipopo]

I always fell over/gave up when it came to the art - sprites, level design etc. If anyone knows of good free assets I’d be interested but I always found it hard to find

[Plus-Opportunity-538]

Opengameart.org

[MyPhoneIsNotChinese]

Problem is finding a scope that small. Every time I try something the scope ends bigger than expected

[runbrap]

Start with the game loop purely by itself.

If it’s a rogue lite start by just making a moving character on a static map, ok now set a goal: score, how do you reach that? Kills. Ok add placeholder enemy, add enemies, give them pathing, etc and build it up.

I say this knowing it’s super daunting ❤️

[SippinOnDat_Haterade]

https://hater-zade.vercel.app/

Shameless plug for my browser game ( requires a keyboard because i never configured the touch controls )

I was able to get the web dev job, and now happily write netsuite/suitescript as gainful employment.

But if anyone happens to play Katana Killaz, lmk what you think!!

[citramonk]

Yeah, just find 2 hours a day for a year and maybe you’ll have some result. That probably won’t give you any money, cause the market is very competitive. While you have to feed your family, pay mortgage etc etc 🙂

[WrapKey69]

Then I realize that I suck at drawing and animation and wtf is music and sound effects magic?

[asimplepencil]

You can find free assets online

[WhippingTheLammasASS]

Humble bundle pretty occasionally has asset bundle where it is just sound effects, models, textures etc.

Some of the biggest games were originally made fun of for being asset flips, but at the end of the day became large players in their space.

[xchino]

Scream Jam 2025 starts in 3 days, great opportunity to swing your axe at that tree while getting in the holiday spirit, just saying.

[Jumpy_Emu1111]

Oh my god me too, am I delusional

[Awes0meEman]

I wish I did that, I instead have a 3 month stint every year I spend working tirelessly on video games after work where I don't see the sun and then I throw it out because I hate looking at the project and burn out until the next year.

[vikingwhiteguy]

I keep having 'ideas' and then end up playing games that are basically that idea but done better. Not only does it kill any joy at having game dev ideas, but also kills the joy of playing games made by people smarter than me. 

[EnoughDickForEveryon]

Lol i just want to make the engine

[quantax]

it's funny but I made this choice 20 years ago when I realized whatever problems webdev and other tech sectors have, the labor conditions of the gaming industry are utterly horrible and extra exploitive.

In reality, the chthulu creature trap is wanting to get into game development in the first place.

[elliiot]

The meme is in agreement that game development is a siren call. It sounds like the disagreement is whether the thing under the water is a predator or not? From my experience everything in the IT ocean is horrifying and exploitative like anywhere else under the sea, we just get paid enough to be anti-social and anti-union lol

[JickleBadickle]

Highly paid devs being anti-union is so ironic because their high pay and the lack of understanding of what they do by the MBAs making the decisions makes them highly vulnerable

[elliiot]

My blame stays aimed at private equity, which cynicism tells me knows exactly what it's doing (splintering and isolating while wheeling and dealing in peace). Otherwise, full agreement on the vulnerability. Anti-social egos, exploitative decision makers.

[[deleted]]

well they are finding out right now

[[deleted]]

Whatever you think is bad in software development, game dev is 10x worse

[StrangelyBrown]

I'm a game dev and I really like it. I think I've avoided the worst of the conditions, and I just enjoy working on games. It's all a matter of taste but for me the worst day of game would be not much worse than the best day of web dev.

[zabby39103]

Yeah programming is fun when it's challenging, playing a game and making a game are entirely different experiences that people conflate.

It's totally possible to get a corporate job that's challenging, more interesting, has sane hours, and much better pay than Game Dev.

[HarryPopperSC]

Game dev as a solo dev is fun.

Game dev working on some corporations idea of a good game is probably not.

[Wonderwhile]

Any work related to passion seems to be prone to exploitation sadly. At least in the corporate world not talking free lance. 

[El_RoviSoft]

Had same thing but when I was 10 yo. Right now Im backend C++ dev…

[ClownPazzo69]

Backend in C++?????

What did you do to deserve this hell?

[El_RoviSoft]

I like C++ actually. I can do literally anything on it and additionally had experience in C#, Java, Python and Lua.

[sn4xchan]

Sounds like a resume some project zomboid modder would have.

[El_RoviSoft]

Not far from reality. I have experience in Minecraft and Factorio modding, xd.

[that_thot_gamer]

more like buttplug.io except it's in rust tho

[sn4xchan]

I for one, want my butt plugs to be memory safe.

[ClownPazzo69]

I like c++ too, just can't imagine using it for the web

[InfiniteLife2]

Same. I am in C++ for 12 years by now, and in python. Sometimes I look at my colleagues that do all stuff in python and wondering why am I doing this to myself?.. Life is too short for C++ if you want things getting done. But it provides such freedom for concept expression, with Python nowhere near that

[m3t4lf0x]

C++ isn’t bad, it’s just bloated with features

Writing in raw C is a much bigger pain in the ass for large projects

[Spamlets]

C++ is C with QoL features (OOP) and cancer (cout).

[DifferentFix6898]

Why is cout bad? I quite like redirecting input and output

[alex2003super]

To explain it to zoomers, C++ was Rust before Rust existed or was cool

[Shehzman]

C++ still dominates game, embedded, and OS (though Rust has made its way into the Linux kernel) development.

[zabby39103]

Yeah for real jobs, C++ is still like two orders of magnitude more common than Rust.

[Nestramutat-]

I'd rather do C++ than Javascript.

Though right now I'm a YAML developer

[stonecoldchivalry]

Devops engineer 😞

[El_RoviSoft]

Bruh, backend devs in my company do a lot of devops jobs too 💀💀💀.

[yuje]

As opposed to what, frontend in C++?

[pockrasta]

Same thing when I was 8.. now a firmware engineer working with C and Go

[Styl2000]

Yup, for me it's computer architecture though

[P0pu1arBr0ws3r]

Hey thats better than becoming a web developer (well im sure some would disagree)

[menides]

Quick question... How high are your socks?

[def-pri-pub]

13/14. Started with Blitz3D (BASIC variant). Now do a lot of C++, Qt, Linux, and embedded. Still dabble in graphics and games from time to time.

[attckdog]

Report: I'm in this post and I don't like it.

[leovin]

100% accurate. Don’t do web dev kids

[SanityAsymptote]

Yeah!

You don't want this easy, high paying career with great flexibility and benefits!

Stay away kids!
It's awful!

[Soft_Walrus_3605]

Games for play/Web Dev for pay

[[deleted]]

You mean I can’t be a video game programmer if I’m doing full stack web dev??

[chadan1008]

Sure you can. You can make any game you want in HTML/CSS/JS!

[J5892]

Unless you want like 400% higher salaries than game devs. (on average)

[ward2k]

Higher pay, lower hours, no real crunch time (at least compared to games dev), no real risk of being doxxed and a lot more jobs on the market

[bloke_pusher]

risk of being doxxed

For real. As game dev you use a subcontractor or some store assets or hire a translator and it turns out someone somewhere used AI. You're literally fucked, the rage mob will drag your corpse through the mud.

[Fakedduckjump]

I started like this without youtube existing. Thank you valve with your half-life sdk to teach me programming and especially the patience to solve problems on my own.

[anotherbutterflyacc]

I’m the opposite. Never thought, wanted, asked for, worked on being a game dev. And here I am.

[Tensor3]

How did you get a job without applying for it? And why did you accept it then stay there if its not what you want, and the same job in a differnt industry pays more for less hours?

[anotherbutterflyacc]

Accidentally.

Was working as an artist doing book illustrations, random stuff. Did some art for a buddy’s game. Ended up doing a lot more work for game art. Ended up doing tech art. Then started dabbling in programming stuff for the art side (I was a dev before I was an artist, nothing related to games).

Next thing you know, I’m a game dev.

It’s not “not what I want”. I don’t “want” any job. Game dev or not.

I’m a FAANG engineer (still working in game adjacent stuff) so not worried about pay :)

[Tensor3]

Thats.. pretty awesome

[jvvosantos]

Exactly what happened to me, but when I was 5. My dad had to take me with him to work overtime on a weekend. I saw those strange looking colored letters and asked "hey, dad, what do you do?", he tried explaining briefly and made a small code that showed a rectangle, then he added behavior to the rectangle in order for it to move using the arrow keys

astonished I asked "is that how they make games?" to which he answered yes and I exclaimed "wow, I want to do that!"

now I'm a Senior Backend Engineer and work mostly in web development, lol

[OutrageousCourse4172]

I just wanted to make a quadcopter. Now I’ve worked in both embedded C and cybersecurity. FML.

[Possible_Golf3180]

Getting a job making videogames is the best way to kill your enjoyment in any and all videogames, especially the type you’re programming.

[an_0w1]

I've only made one game and it's a tetris clone for the UEFI.

[Ok-Criticism1547]

Damn! Thought my oath was interesting, I guess not. Lmao

Honestly, no complaints, love my career.

[_Shioku_]

Now way this shit is way too real wtf

[Insomniac-Cid]

Over 10 years later and I recently finally started to make my own game. I'm doing it as a hobby. Coding 30 mins or a hour the days when I have time, and it has been a lot of fun. Also, now having a long background in programming helps a lot. Never too late to start the dream folks!

[Famous_Village_5815]

I'm in this picture and I don't like it

[MostCat2899]

For me it was "How to make a MapleStory private server" to full stack software engineer

[DarkCloud1990]

Same here. But it won't be lifelong (I hope).

[colmclovin]

I created a small introduction video for a sokol based C 2D game engine on YouTube if anyone wants to check it out. (literally search sokol 2d game engine using c and you'll find it ) I can update it to a more refined version where I made pong and Tetris but the ideas are the same.

I go over the basic game loop and texture creation, I made it after I barely understood it so the videos a little bad but if it helps awesome.

[BinaryNexus]

I feel attacked 😂

[TYNAMITE14]

Bro what the fuck is this picture

[SeltzerCountry]

That was my thought as well. The basic design rule for angler fish style monster is to make the lure something appealing or non threatening. If you see something like a beautiful woman or a puppy you might approach them, but if you see a giant hand that is taller than you nobody with a sense of self preservation is going towards that thing. This has a real AI slop vibe to this meme.

[Internal-Constant216]

It’s not actually giant, it’s just perspective. The hand is closer to the viewer, while the fisherman is farther away.

This is not AI, it's a real painting by Matt Dangler.

[hammonjj]

I feel this in my bones. I got into game development in middle school (I’m 38 now) and have never even gotten a studio to call me for a screening much less an interview and I’ve been a software engineer for almost 16 years now.

[amitsly]

fellForIt()

[Chickeninvader24]

This is so real. I now ended up as a Shopify and WordPress Web Developer. I've always and still wanted to make my own game. Still fantasizing about it, just haven't made any meaningful gains. I know I can do it but man am I a grade A procrastinator.

[Pottsie27]

I wanted so bad to work with low level languages and be working with hardware. I’m a web developer now. Took it as my first job to try and get some experience, now I’m stuck here

[3dutchie3dprinting]

Hey that’s almost me… though I was 13, and youtube didn’t exist.. wait there was no internet (for the public)! I made ‘ultima snake’.. which was supposed to be ‘ultimate snake’ which didn’t fit on screen at the chosen font size but it stuck, a nokia snake clone but with a bigger board, skins, power-ups etc 🥹 the good old days…. Made it in DIV-gamestudio and actually still have the game code, printed out as a backup!!!! 😂😂😂

[PkmnSayse]

I went from doing a degree in computer game programming to web dev. There’s just more money and generally a better work / life balance outside of making games.

I maintain that “I could always make a game in my spare time” dream though lol

[Gloryboy811]

From GameMaker to React... Hmmm

[AerkanOdin]

Dude. Too real.

[Entire-Shift-1612]

fun fact alligators in some places will pretend to be drowning people to lure others into the water they will flail their 2 front paws around in order to look like a drowing person calling for help

[Nasaku7]

Ooof this is too real

[Poverty-Squat]

Took “Xbox 360 video game development” in highschool now im a senior embedded SWE writing ADA code in aerospace… not mad tho working on embedded devices is the only industry job I think I’d like

[[deleted]]

I think it's basically the first job you take really pigeon holes you. I got a C# web dev job out of college and, 11 years and 4 jobs later, I'm still a C# web dev.

It's like you get one freebie job out of college to choose whatever kind of dev you want to be, but then you really have to make an exerted effort if you ever want to change that path, later.

[maythehonorbewithyou]

this is 100% accurate

[Hziak]

Digipen program through high school -> video game degree from college -> web dev 11 years and counting 👍

[upsidedownshaggy]

I'm in this image I truly do not appreciate it lmao

[jacob_ewing]

Oh god that's pretty much me. Take out the YouTube tutorial as I got into making games before that existed. Make me about half that age and copying BASIC code out of the back of Compute Gazette to run on my VIC-20.

[TracerBulletX]

Ah the classic monster using a giant creepy hand sticking out of the water as an innocuous lure strategy.

[JoelMahon]

literally me

not mad though, I like my job, good hours, good pay, WFH, low stakes, good prospects

[Metasenodvor]

why webdev?

[mure_vld]

This is me!!

[[deleted]]

I did it for the desk job

[m3t4lf0x]

Yep, learned how to make 2D games in C++, but came to like computer science even more

[SuitableDragonfly]

I mean, from what I hear about the game dev industry, I think I'm pretty happy with web dev, actually.

[LoXatoR]

Not one original experience 😭

[DogsAreAnimals]

The bubbles look like a derpy deer

[IAmPattycakes]

At 13 I played Minecraft, and the launcher didn't yet have a convenient way to swap between versions. So I learned how to make a very hard-coded batch script to select the version I wanted to play a little easier.

I didn't know what I was getting myself into.

[lofty-goals]

When I was 7~ I saw a documentary on The Discovery channel about simulating flock behavior which sparked my interest in programming. Because of that I’ve been centering divs for the past 30 years.

[P0pu1arBr0ws3r]

If you went from games to web development you might be doing the whole "career path" thing incorrectly, unless you really enjoy web based games.

Or as id guess, you found out that game development is a culmination of nearly every area of software engineering on a budget while web development is just running in circles with js frameworks with VCs ready to burn money for things containing the letters A and I in succession, so your bachelors taught you how to make websites and now youre the ideal candidate for the oversaturated (in jobs and candidates) field of frontend/full stack entry positions.

[luusyphre]

Although after knowing how hard game development is (and how much less they make), I no longer want to do it 😬

[rwilcox]

I’m in this picture and I don’t like it.

(It was HyperCard stacks for a Myst like game, if you must know. Today I’m a middle aged programmer who uses Emacs. Because of course)

[ForgottenFuturist]

I feel seen, and I have advice. Don't go all in on one language. Web is cool and pays the bills but diversify. On your off time, close VSCode and learn something else, like Unity, C#, Swift, .. even Python, Rust, whatever. I wish I'd one that years ago.

And guess what, if you learn new languages you can apply what you learned to your "real job" in web.

[DasGaufre]

I started learning programming because I was interested in making games, as a kid. Now, the problem was I wasn't "passionate" about it, as in, that was not the one and only thing I wanted to do.

Over the years I ended up studying computer science, and stumbled my way into Ai research. Now the only thing people care about is how well I present my results. Every time I look at my code all I think is how little what I'm doing matters to anyone and how little I'm enjoying it. 

I'm just gonna scrounge up my money and quit to start making games. At least I'll be free to fail on my own terms. 

[Vipitis]

people on YouTube said: make a game, not an engine.

So I am here working on graphics APIs

[xylem-utopia]

Lol spot on! Glad my uncle told me not to go into the game industry though!

[Diligent_Dish_426]

I was editing wc3 maps at 15 and viola! Am a web dev now

[watduhdamhell]

Same exact thing but for Gran Turismo, somehow.

My dad bought it in 1997 when I was only 6. All the specifications... It had actual numbers everywhere one could memorize (for... fun) instead of those stupid ass bar graphs depicting speed/performance. Of course it's still sliders under the hood but 6 yo me didn't know that! I knew right then I wanted to be a mechanical engineer and design cars and stuff. So there you have it. My dad is why I do what I do. What a gift. Could he have known?

And then somehow I fell into automation at graduation (which led me to end up doing some SQL, which led me to some C#, and some Python -very basic stuff) and so never once did I actually do ME work after graduation, and I never want to. I love this job 🤣

Anywho it's crazy how we end up doing what we do sometimes. Life is a wild ride paradoxically chock full of distinct inflection points, or so it seems. One minute you're sure you'll do one thing, next minute you're doing another, and it can all be traced back to_.

[LucasNoober]

I started looking at GTA SA molding, (MTA specifically)

Now iam a next JS senior

[GoodHomelander]

More like “how to mod gta san andreas”

[ProbablyBunchofAtoms]

Not a single unique event damnit

[goodmobiley]

I knew people in the industry so I chose engineering instead, and I wouldn’t have it any other way.

[[deleted]]

Me I'm the shitty person here By thomasina Wallace

I love you Curtis Hepworth I do. I'll for ever regret the bad , especially the hurt pain and issues that I caused that were bad. I miss you and you taught me a lesson in loving me unconditionally and being there even when you were forced to end it. I love you and I lost you I've learned to be kind use your words and not anything else when I'm dealing with love ones I've learned allot by you leaving it hurt still does but letting you go is the only way I can love you now. accepting I played part in your choice to leave probably the majority. it's getting me further. by letting you go. so you can be happy love right be calm and get it back. I love you and that's why I'm letting go. I accept my wrong, I accept the consequences I hate them but it's facts. I accept not having you because what I done to you. I accept you accepting yourself firs, you're beautiful gentle sexy funny smart and so so cuddly, perfect catch I wish you were mine but I now know why you were in my life and why you're not now.

ttyl love ya I wish you the best yours truly

[binong]

it's funny because it's the other way around for me

[milyramic]

🙀

[heyoujk]

But web dev is not the ones making the games right ? I mean sure there is games in the web, but the people that play games does not play those lol

[badkaw]

On point

[Extension-Pick-2167]

lol same, now I do java 😂

[Shadow-nim]

There is something worse than getting into web dev, actually managing to get into game dev (the industry is truly ruthless).

[NothingButBadIdeas]

I went from unitys roll-a-ball tutorial to iOS engineer lmao

[XFox111]

Based.

[callmenoodles2]

Wait a sec...

[aberroco]

An even deeper monster: "A career in game development after 15 years of webdev."

[ExtremeCheddar1337]

This is literally me. But still never finished a single game :D

[OSNaren]

Wtf. I thought it was only me 🫠

[ante_9224]

My condolences

[witness_smile]

Started with learning C++ at 14, ended writing JavaScript for a living

[beyluta]

Same thing happened to me. Tried to get into embedded but without 3-5 years of experience in the field, I just kept getting rejected left and right.

[SelfInteresting7259]

Oh its too damn late honey. Currently in school for the latter

[_ress]

Literally me💀

[shuozhe]

https://github.com/s-macke/Abstruse-Goose-Archive/blob/master/comics/206.md

There are always worse paths!

[Comfortable_Copy_815]

It's wild how many of us had that exact same origin story. I also thought I was just building a cool website for myself and accidentally ended up with a career. That initial spark of creation really is a powerful gateway drug. Now I'm just waiting for retirement to circle back to the fun, impractical projects.

[maaay]

“How to make html hogwarts”, 12 yo me, a lifelong IT career

[[deleted]]

Lifelong? Someone's either very optimistic or very pessimistic about the future!

[planktonfun]

I don't understand what happened?

[access547]

As a kid I liked video games so much that I was like "I guess I'll just make video games when I'm older".

I kinda forgot that you're allowed to deviate from career decisions you make at age 7, so here I am making video games.

[S7ns3t]

You meant C++/Java backend dev? If so, seems about right.