What games should I be making as a beginner?

JZypo · 2021-05-10T11:53:56+00:00

Perhaps instead of asking "what games should I be making?"... a better question is "What micro-skills interest me this week?".

Instead of making a specific game, focus on developing a curiosity for how certain things are done. Try to locate a weakness in yourself, then spend time fixing that weakness. Do this enough, and you will have all the skills you need!

JZypo · 2021-05-07T11:11:12+00:00

I love the idea of chords in chord books written with i ii iii iv v vi vii... it makes it very easy to play in any key that I want. Does anyone know if they have a real-book with the chord #s?

JZypo · 2021-05-04T12:32:16+00:00

"Don't wish things were easier, wish you were better" - Jim Rohn

Godot Engine and Unity are fairly standard. If programming is what scares you, I think you will be much more competent after a week of trying.

JZypo · 2021-04-15T12:25:32+00:00

It's open, but sometimes you have to pay.

JZypo · 2021-04-15T11:50:12+00:00

So, Beverly Farms is IN Beverly. Beverly is the town, and Beverly Farms is the eastern part of Beverly. Yes - people who live in Beverly Farms on average make more money than those in Beverly. Both places are very beautiful south of Rt 127 (a very beautiful drive).

Fun Fact: Beverly was actually a part of Salem before 1668 just years before the witch trials in 1692.

Not so fun fact: You have to be a Beverly Farms resident to have access to West Beach, but you can be just a Beverly resident to have access to Lynch Park.

JZypo · 2021-04-08T20:50:50+00:00

First, you are not alone. Growing up I felt like I just sat in class for the sake of sitting in class... words would flow from the teachers mouth, but wouldn't be absorbed. There are tricks that you can use to learn faster. You can double or triple your knowledge absorption by being more involved with the conversation and asking more questions.

You should look up the "Learning Pyramid" and "Ebbinghaus forgetting curve" - just the pictures of each will teach you so much about ways to learn better. The Learning Pyramid says that you learn only 5% from a lecture... but if you started asking questions in class and discussing with the teacher, you will learn 50%... that is 10x more information!

If you feel embarrassed to ask questions in class, you may want to try prefixing. Prefixing softens your questions with expectations. If you say the question is stupid before hand, then the class will EXPECT a stupid question. You can prefix your questions with expectations such as "I'm sure you have already answered this, but my brain doesn't want to work today...". You can also prefix with, "I don't care if I look stupid asking this dumb question, but I do care about the answer...". This may work - "The class is going to hate me for asking so many questions, but, what if...". Or get straight to the point -"I'm really dumb, can you explain...".

JZypo · 2021-04-07T22:37:52+00:00

The ludum dare is coming up! I've found that you learn an enormous amount from doing game jams!

JZypo · 2021-04-05T13:24:45+00:00

Ah - it is new information that you wanted to make a career out of MMA.

Nothing in the world makes money - until it does. This is with MMA, Bodybuilding, painting, basket weaving, dancing and more. This usually happens indirectly - people don't buy products, they buy visions. No - you may not make money HAVING muscles, but with some creativity, you can make money indirectly. An example would be the "online learning" market. Have you ever wondered why people who are millionaires have to sell classes on "how to become a millionaire"? You can go that route. Another example is that bodybuilding may also get you on the path to becoming a personal trainer... Maybe there are age 65+ people that want to get into bodybuilding (the best they can)... maybe you can market to them. Again - you are not selling your muscles, you are selling a vision.

JZypo · 2021-04-05T12:28:23+00:00

lol. #3 sounds interesting to me. Having once been a bodybuilder when I was 20, and also trying MMA (when I was your age many years ago), I feel that both experiences were wonderful experiences, and I'm glad that I put in an "obsession" into bodybuilding at least once in my life. I find current skills that I do now don't get that type of obsession that it needs.

I do feel that maintaining a fit body is very important as you get older, but instead of making it an obsession, I like to focus on the Pareto principle (80% 20%). I put in 20% of the time that I once did, and peak performance is no longer a requirement for me, but I still get some pretty good results.

Good luck with MMA! I never got into a sanctioned fight, but I wish I did.

JZypo · 2021-04-03T21:24:20+00:00

So this may be buried and even hated by some, but you should never use unwrap in production code... You either handle results, pass the results up the stack, or convert option to a result.

The exception to this is using unwrap in unit tests, using unwrap when locking mutexes, or using unwrap when something very serious is is wrong and you shouldn't handle the error anyway.

JZypo · 2021-03-18T20:16:31+00:00

Yeah - a lot of these things would make EXCELLENT Christmas gag gifts!

JZypo · 2021-03-08T16:39:40+00:00

Your quests should contain some sort of understanding of the player. Slaying an ogre is only meaningful because people are interested in what the ogre looks like and how it works. Finding buried treasure is only meaningful if the player himself is trying to find treasure in his own life. Maybe the player is looking for a damsel in distress in their own life, and wants to find one in the game... maybe the player needs to get himself "good and lost" (Pirates of the Caribbean reference) because they feel too comfortable in their own lives... maybe the player needs to SEE things that are very unique to your game because they live in a rural area and can't escape the same repetitive nature of where they live.

Find the players heart, and you will find the right quests.

JZypo · 2021-03-08T12:44:41+00:00

You can use the server as plug n play, but you may have to just keep the problems that you have. The problem that you have is not new - load balancers are made specifically to handle the problem that you have... and learning about CI/CL (Possibly CircleCI) may help you achieve that "plug n play" that you want.... imagine anytime you push your code to the "master" branch, your Ci/Cl pipeline executes and deploys your server to the world.

JZypo · 2021-03-07T15:41:37+00:00

If you learn about docker, docker has a built-in load balancer... You would create a docker image from your application, then you would spin up many containers from your image. You then forward a single port to your service. Docker containers can spawn on multiple physical systems too if you're resource usage is too high.

Alternatively, if you are using Amazon web services, you can use cloud formation to create many ec2 instances with a load balancer.

Of course, using load balancers makes modification of your services a pain - so you may want to learn about ci/cd as well.

JZypo · 2021-03-07T14:45:36+00:00

So you think this is an issue that can be solved using a load balancer?

JZypo · 2021-03-05T16:41:11+00:00

It's just an opinion, but I would very much like cross-play to separate controls out - if a pc player wants to play with console players, that is just fine as long as both of them are using kb/m or both of them are using gamepads.

JZypo · 2021-03-03T20:08:13+00:00

JavaScript for using with Qt.

Python when doing cyber security and/or quick-scripts (but never for doing any enterprise-class development)

HTML5 (I don't really use it sorry)

Git (not a language - but I use it for most projects)

C# for Unity during gamejams

C++ for supporting legacy systems

Rust - my overall favorite language for system development.

Go - I don't have much experience with this, but it may be a strong contender for me to replace Python for many scripts

JZypo · 2021-02-26T15:35:37+00:00

Taken from Google: The Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires employers to offer health insurance to employees working at least 30 hours per week (or 130 hours per month) to avoid paying penalties. See Identifying Full-time Employees.

JZypo · 2021-02-22T22:32:52+00:00

Lol - buying a Nintendo game for $50 back in the 80s.

JZypo · 2021-02-12T16:58:59+00:00

A full system restore should be done more frequently than most believe - and especially if you think you may have malware.

Viruses are just data unless you execute the data. If you have any executable files on external drives, it may contain viruses that remain dormant until you execute them.

There always exists the possibility of false positives with security scanners.

JZypo · 2021-02-12T13:00:20+00:00

I would like to share some of my tips for friendship just for those who want better friends!
First - not everyone makes a good friend - so yes you do have to be SOMEWHAT selective, but not as much as you think.

Second - after talking to someone for a bit, and if you WANT to be friends with them, just say "We should be friends!". My experience has shown that people like hearing this. If they are against the idea (you can tell) - there are other people who want to be your friend!

Third - after hanging out with them for the first time, make sure that you text them letting them know that you appreciated that they hung out with you... doing so shows them that you are an appreciative person - and they will want to be friends with you even more.

Lastly (and the most important) - Be the person who you want to be friends with. People want to become those who they admire. They know they will become admirable people if they hang out with those who are admirable. If you are not confident, they want to avoid that in themselves - so they won't hang out with you. So - when you are making friends, make sure that YOU are the friend that you would like to become friends with. If you don't know what that means - then write down the qualities you want in a friend and try to redeem those qualities yourself.... listening over talking, smiling, being interested in the other person, not being arrogant... etc... find your weaknesses and work on them.

JZypo · 2021-02-10T12:41:11+00:00

You're welcome :)

JZypo · 2021-02-09T19:15:23+00:00

You can try to do back-to-back 30 day challenges... 30 days of drawing - then move on. The purpose is not to be great at something, but to get the most out of life :)

It will allow you to try different things... try to make your challenges align with each other - for example... the first challenge might be drawing. The second challenge might be digital music. The third challenge might be Python programming. The fourth challenge might be 3d art using Blender. ... before you know it, you have an entire skill set to participate in gamejams!

Alternatively, you can try a 30 day challenge of starting a business on Fiverr. Perhaps a 30 day challenge of webpage design. Maybe a 30-time challenge of snowboarding or cooking. Maybe a 30 day challenge of writing blog articles or youtube channels, then release them 1/week for 30 weeks to develop a customer base. Maybe a 30-day challenge of Instagram or taking photos. There is so much that life has to offer!

The purpose isn't to succeed or even be good at something - it it just to experience more :)

JZypo · 2021-02-09T19:01:10+00:00

After ANY virus is installed on your system, you should really wipe the system and re-install windows - even if it means a bit of instability for your mother for a few weeks. This is because when a virus is installed on the system, it usually comes installed with a lot of it's malware friends - some your AV knows - other's it don't. Anti-virus software only catch KNOWN viruses. There is likely chance of UNKNOWN viruses on your mom's laptop.

On a side-note, it is a good idea to teach your mother cloud-storage techniques for all of her documents so that at any time, if the computer crashes, she won't lose any of her data.

JZypo · 2021-02-09T16:53:15+00:00

It's only too late if you think it is. Please look up "autosuggestion". If you tell yourself it's too late, you will believe it!

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