Thank you so much, yes I have been learning python for about a month and copied off tutorials, didn't really help tbh but I understood what the code was saying. I can setup a screen and put stuff on it and that but I just think the game I want to make on my own will require help, so I'll go with an idle clicker style where you collect coins to upgrade and rebuild a small city, it will be 2d with 8x8 tiles and pico-8 palette.
Scrap coins, you'll click 3 materials at the bottom of the screen to gather in order to reach the material requirements for an upgrade on how much per click or per second and when you buy all upgrades, the game will prompt you with an end screen saying "You failed at breaking the city". idk that's all that came to mind, tell me if i could simplify it.
That sounds simple enough. you could set it up so that you have 3 buttons (they can be images too, dont have to be the square colored things) and when you click on it, you get X of the specific resource. you could add a few upgrades that cost the resources like a "+20% more wood" or "each click gives 1 more of all resources" or maybe some idle upgrades that let you get the resource slowly without clicking and then the end screen pops up either when you reach a specific amount of resources (checking that on each frame is bad performance wise. it wont matter for small projects like this but it is worth it to check that for example every time you gain some resource because it will be like once every second instead of 60 times a second) or if you buy the last upgrade (check inside the upgrades logic).
Yeah if you have been only coding for about a month definitely start with something very simple like an idle clicker. I am actually doing something very similar for this game jam lol if you want to tell me more about the game you want to originally make on your own maybe we can simplify it to make it possible for the game jam or even if not, maybe I can give you pointers for the future so you can do it better later. Otherwise the clicker is of course a good entry since you basically just need buttons, a few graphics and the game logic (like what the upgrades do and how much money the player gets etc.) is very straight forward.