Hi all,
For what it's worth, I wrote down a bit about my experience as a first-time developer and gave some advice on how to avoid burnout (how to survive your first game?). I had also read many blog posts about TIC 80 but the authors have simply known their stuff too well to point out the basics that everyone who has come later will have to make the same arduous effort to learn what they had learned. So mostly I just talked about things that I wish someone had told me before I started this game, but since you can't be a first-time developer twice, I hope this blog post can help whoever will be reading it. And while I had written my game in Lua, I did not put any serious Lua code in this blog post so that everyone can implement the same idea just the way he or she likes it. Thank you.