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How old were you when you published your first game?

A topic by LadyBex created May 28, 2022 Views: 843 Replies: 18
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My childhood dream was to create a game, but I made my first one when I was 28 years old :')

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I was around 30 something

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I started pretty early, back in middle school with Game Maker… I’ve never sold any indie games though, I just treat this as a hobby. I technically have shipped a commercial title, but that was a porting job for work rather than something I published myself.

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I was in middle school my games weren't good but I am proud of them.

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so old i really wouldnt like to say lol

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lol xD but no matter the age one should have fun with videogames, lol, I'd like to play them even when I become very very old and probably even develop :D

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I made my first game, an implementation of Othello, when I was in high school, in BASIC on an Apple II+ (and then a 6502 assembly version that played really fast and incorrectly, and then a parallel processing version in college for my thesis), but I didn't work for a game studio until I was 35, started self-publishing on app stores in my 40s, and finally on Steam (and itch.io of course) in my 50s.

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Hi! This exciting story for motivation! You are perfect!

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wow that's awesome dude,  living that dream

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Uh... I'm 42, and my game was uploaded here this year... better late than never, I guess

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I think I was 12/13 when I first published my games, though they were crappy text-based games I uploaded to a previous and pretty bad version of my website. I also tried selling CDs of my games to other middle schoolers and learned the hard way you can't trust middle schoolers to keep their word on paying you, lol.

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In high school, someone gave me a floppy disk (5 1/4 inch, the truly floppy floppies) full of pirated games, and I found my game on it. So I guess I was published back then!

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I used to make ridiculous Flash games when I was like 20 years old :-D

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I am 35 and i just made my first game. It's a bit late to start learn coding and unity, but it was a child dream to make a point and click adventure in the old Lucas Arts Look. Now my dream is to have a team and make something bigger :-)

https://normanbates31.itch.io/debunker
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started learning game development in 12.5 yo

first published game in 14

https://unrealdev16.itch.io/commercial-gangster-1

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I published my first game at 35.. I think i spent much time playing video games instead of programming them :D

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That's research!

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28

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i am 16 and propably gonna publish my first game when the minijam starts i already learned pygame but because of pygame poor perfemence i started learning pyopengl to improve my game i hope that i will be able to publish my first game cause i was learning game development since i was 13 (3 years ago). any advices/tips?.