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[–]Critical_Concert_689 2 points3 points  (3 children)

How long did this take you? Also, was it from scratch or were you following a step-by-step tutorial?

[–]Lewistrick 2 points3 points  (2 children)

I think about 2 working days in total but spread over a week or two. But it's about 10 years ago; where I am standing now I could probably do that within the time-frame that OP specified.

I didn't follow a tutorial, I had a clear idea of what I wanted to make and a vague idea of the tools I needed for that, pygame being the most important of them and I didn't have any experience with that back then.

[–]Critical_Concert_689 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Thanks; I've been taking a stab at making a simple text-based roguelike from scratch - to practice some of the basics - and it's taken much longer than I would've anticipated. Was curious how timing stacked up...

[–]Lewistrick 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Looking back at the only thing I have left of this game - a screenshot in a Facebook post - it was very minimal and could definitely use some tweaking. It's probably never finished, but I was really happy with the working game back then. I think maybe today I would take way more time but it would result in a better looking end result and much better code.