Aryan Shaily

How I failed at game development?

January 8, 2025

My story of how I got introduced to game development, picked up the hobby, learnt unity and still failed

This all started in the year 2019 when I first got introduced to javascript, I was in my 12th std and had a computer science course. I was exploring everything that I could about how real world softwares are made. This is when I came across javascript and I got to know that you could even make in browser games with it. After I finished school in 2020 I quickly got into learning all of the things I could, javascript was a nice language but there was much more in the software development world that I had to discover.

This is when I got introduced to dev logs, and particularly one game developer called Dani, He was just like us and was already making games. I got inspired and started learning unity. Tutorials after tutorial and now I knew almost everything about the game engine, and I thought that this was enough for me to be a game dev.

I had crunched so many brackeys tutorials and many more now I was programming in C# and I started with trying to make a clone of one of Dani’s games. It was a fairly simple game with primitive shapes and was enough for me to get started with actually making something. I got the movements right and the enemies were spawning and I could kill them with the bullets that I was shooting, but then I got bored as It wasn’t really my own idea. The game was nowhere near Dani’s original game and It sucked, I didn’t even finish the game and I quit.

What would I do differently now?

I’ll probably try not wasting time on watching tutorials that much, just knowing the game engine very well doesn’t take you very long. And I’ll start with making something really simple but original. That will motivate me to keep going. And maybe more coding less talking about it this time :)

After almost 4 years I’m once again interested in game dev, sadly I don’t have a lot of free time now, but I can take out time to make something silly and simple ig, so that’s what I’ll do. I’ll try making some silly games and I’ll post them here in the blogs fun section, this time around I’ll use javascript as that’s what I’ve been using for a while now.

Thanks to Komi (my close friend), Thin Matrix and everyone who makes dev logs and inspire me constantly, I had always wanted to be a software engineer and I’ll make sure to have fun in this dream come true.