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First post here...Here's a funny thing that happened to me yesterday. I'm with my friend, we're both taking a break from school, and he comes up to me and mentions how he wants to make 3d games. Conversation goes a bit like this:

Friend: "Hey, I found this 3d model website. I'm thinking of using it for my 3d game."

He was already making a 2d game at this point, so I assumed he just gave up on it.

Me: "Well...do you have Unity?"

Friend: "Yes."

Me: "Well if you're going to make a game on there [stuff about c#]"

Friend insists he can easily make this. I tell him it would take years on end to learn C# and make a good game with it. And then he says something I never wanted to hear.

Friend: "Actually, no. You ever heard of Dani? D-A-N-I? He made a game in 2 weeks. He's actually making a new game and you should wishlist it on steam blah blah yatta yatta."

This guy believed someone else who was previously a game developer (if i recall) learned an entire programming language and engine in two weeks. He could've, but to me that seems seriously outrageous to someone who doesn't even know a smidge of programming.

He then advertised his YouTube channel and his games and brought down my arguments like "he probably had previous knowledge" completely. This guy doesn't even know where to start with C#. Really, all I could do after that was mention three.js (oh wow another JavaScript library, exciting), show him a game Google made with said library, and then said good luck...

Worst thing is, he uses Scratch to make games. And he genuinely thinks that is a real programming language.

That's it for my first post, thank you very much for reading :)

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  • 3
    This just makes me sad.
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    My first inspiration was Dani, then it goes on from Sam Hogan to a learning channel Brackeys
    BTW Welcome to devRant and remember to drink milk
  • 1
    He is just like the other gamejamy yt's but intsead of a relatively serious nature he just makes it into a meme and leaves out most of the hard grind. Also he's probably been using unity for years now sooool
  • 0
    Sorry that's 1 year of 3d unity, there's like another 1 year of 2d on top of that. Plus who knows how much off-youtbe time
  • 2
    Having decades of experience with many programming languages, engines and platforms, I'd estimate at least one year for a small good game.
    But some guy with 0 experience thinks in two weeks he can make a masterpiece with some crappy game maker or something? Sure why not. How hard can it be?
  • 1
    @Lensflare When you travel through the journey of learning, different aspects jump on your way and you had to defend each of those with a long term success
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