Share your first ever game

3 years ago by TeaHands to c/gamedev

Since it's Throwback Thursday and all (and since I'm waiting on a driver install and need something to do for about three minutes), I thought it might be fun to look back at our first ever games!

For me, other than working my way through the old Brackey's tutorial to make an endless ball-rolling game, the first one I ever made and completed was Good Luck With The Lamps, a very basic pixel art platformer where you're just a normal regular bear trying to turn all his lamps off and go to bed.

But the lamps have other ideas! spooky hand wave

This was for the "My First Game Jam" Summer 2020 edition which lasted about two weeks, if it'd been any less there's no way we could have finished. I say "we" because this was actually a joint effort between me and my SO, who afterwards vowed never to work with me again lol.

Things learned:

  • If you're doing pixel art the pixels should probably all be the same size
  • Unity's tilemap system
  • Basic 2d animations
  • How to make a cut scene
  • I hate making platformers!

Ok, your turn!

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brooswain 2 points 3 years ago

The first games I ever made were so long ago...text-based adventure games on the ZX Spectrum in BASIC, and being a kid at the time (~10 years old) I had no concept of programming properly or structuring anything. It was just strings being displayed based on input.

The only one I remember is a Superman game.

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TeaHands 1 point 3 years ago

Bit of a belated reply but you know, this got me thinking. Technically I suppose my first "game" would've been back in the day in BASIC as well, although where you draw the line between "game" and "just a very basic program that is interactive and a small child is amazed by" might determine if it counts lol.

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