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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Making games, which, I've come to discover, is basically the Santa Claus of programming because most professional developers that I know started for the same reason and absolute do not program or develop games.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Same. I wanted to make video games... until I found out how terrible the working conditions and pay are.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Lol this is exactly it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Same here. Always wanted to do cool games. But wanted to have an even cooler scripting language for the game. At some point programming languages became more interesting. Now working in ide development :D never finished a game