don't be afraid to fail, rather, fear to not reach your full potential!

Determination knows no bounds. I say, go for it, I just finished a Xion, my first, and also have learned to skin several apps on my own, some with assistance, either way, success feels great.

So, try and keep trying as long as time affords you the opportunity,.

I know my comparison may be tiny as far as the coding, but I learned more making a rainmeter about code than I ever knew or thought possible.

Point being, all tutorials posted online, and some tips from others. Good luck.Last piece of my ramblings, use other peoples work for reference, the best teacher around is a finished, working, example.

Thank you for your responses!

I will look into that Construct, thanks for the link and advice. But since i started tonight with that Unity tutorial, i will try to carry on with this at first to see how far i am able to go. So far i managed to finish initial 2 parts of the tutorial which deal with setting up the "map" and cameras. I am basically following it to the letter, but there is no other way, thankfully there are whole parts of the C script listed i can just copy, without that LOL, no coding for me.

Anyway, already ran into an issue with camera, despite doing everything as said, camera would get stucked if i rotated it the way it looks directly down...but since i basically did not want to do it fully customizable anyway, i solved it by removing all the references to rotation from the script, problem solved  america, fuck yeah.

But now i am thinking to allow at least rotation around its Z axis, but not to make it tiltable (what caused the problem and as i said i did not this functionality in the first place anyway), so i gotta take part of the code back...probably last thing i try today and go to sleep then.

Bottom line, my initial observation are, that i would not be able to do shit without copying whole parts of the code from that tutorial, but i sort of understand, what are the parts of the script related to/have control over, so if i change some values, i know what i am doing and i am able to improvize a bit. I wonder if this approach will work further as well.

I feel your pain.  Went in the military right as computers came out.

Unity will probably have the most utility if you decide to grind on through.

Cool link on the proggie and good luck there.

I learned to code on a Radio Shack Color Computer when I was 16.  I wanted to write a Dungeon & Dragons game.  Took me all summer but I did it in Basic and stored my code on audio tapes that constantly had read errors.  Good times.     At the time I had magazines like Byte that had an active community that published code that was great for learning from.  I'll bet there are equivalent magazines today.  I have not looked in a while.

Find a local community college and take an intro to coding class.  Pick one that uses C or C++ as the language.  Pascal and Basic are good too but C gives you a lot more options down the road.  The important thing is to learn all the basic concepts.  And honestly there really are not that many.  Don't be intimidated.  It's only the crazy graphic stuff that gets challenging and when you get that far you find more help and new sources of information.  It's also nice to have a good math background for the graphics programming but also not the worst obstacle.  There are purchasable libraries and online communities you can look to for help.

If you are someone who can learn on your own find an intro to coding book that includes a language disk that has a free compiler on it.  C or C++ still I think your best bet here.  

Wanting to write a game will give you the drive you need to learn the basics.  Even writing basic stuff like a Pacman game will teach you so much.  

Good luck.  And carry a small notebook with you to capture your random ideas.  They will start popping into your head once you get started.

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