What are you currently passionate about it interested in? What are some cool things about that thing, or interesting stuff that you’ve learned?
To start things off, I’ve recently gotten back into Legos for the first time since I was a child and dragged my SO in with me. We’ve been building sets together, posing them, and decorating my apartment with some of them like the autumn center piece and bonsai tree. I’m also starting to show them how you can mix things together or go off script, changing and customizing a set to fit your own needs or tastes. It’s been really fun and I’d recommend it if you are looking for something to do with someone else.
I’ve also gotten into professional wrestling for the first time and been having a blast. My SO used to watch WWE/WWF as a kid and I asked them to watch a pay per view with me and it was like they got ripped back in time, getting super hype and cheering on the people they wanted to win. We’ve now started watching AEW and it’s been really fun when they point out the people that they recognize from when they were a kid and what they think of them.
So, ok it’s obviously up to you and I’m not gonna pressure you to share. But allow me this small rant, because I keep seeing people say they don’t have enough to share yet or nobody will care about their game.
I hang around in various gamedev communities, here on Lemmy, over on Mastodon, various Discords etc etc, as well as various communities for other kinds of making stuff (fibre crafts mostly), and the one thing they all have in common is people love to see what everyone else is working on and encourage each other. You just need to take a look at any fledgling creative community on here to know that “what are you working on?” is the top getting-to-know-you prompt.
My Mastodon posts are just a series of “look I made the world’s most basic 3d model in Blender” or “now a thing appears in my game if you press this button!”, small updates like that. Because I’m proud and want to share, but also because I want other people to see these tiny bits of slow newbie progress and realise it’s ok to show off their own small progress too. Making games is HARD and even the tiny successes are worth celebrating!
(Ok I’m done, sorry you had to be the target of all that 😅)
Nah you’re fine. I understand what you mean. I was crazy proud I managed to get a button to do exactly what I wanted it to do.
I’m learning to have healthy interactions about myself. My mother always shit on everything I did, so I expect everyone to. The nothing I ever do is worthwhile attitude.
This time though, I have nothing to share because I got frustrated with tilemap palette not working properly on my title screen and since this issue involves literal thousands of tiny files, I deleted the entire project to start over instead. My first version of the game, which includes the click able button, is currently locked away in my desktop computer with a dead graphics card I bought only 6 months ago. I’m currently waiting for a replacement.
I will definitely join the game dev communities. I only started working on game making 2 months ago, and my desktop has been out of commission for 1 of those. I’m only just learning the names of things/people, titles, etc. I had nothing to search for yet!