Hi everyone!
I'm JerkyHips, diving for the first time in the itch.io community for a splash of friendly exchange.
I guess at nearly 50 I might be some sort of dinosaur here, but one that has just proudly released his first game (Bouncenoid) ;-) I never really stopped playing games (although with ups and downs), but going back to coding one brings a weird time-travel feeling, back in the days where I used to copy code in Basic (or Assembly!) directly from magazines I bought, for my Amstrad and my Apple II C or for a friend's Atari 520 ST... Just one mistake then and you'd get "syntax error" or more obscure messages and you had to try and find it, even if you didn't really understand the whole thing 😅
Fast forward 40 years, after a pro life of C# developer, IS consultant, data scientist and Bio tech program manager, and finding myself suddenly without a job, and in need of a side project to keep my sanity. And what was initially a small toy idea became a full blown game a few months later. And it feels good ;-) I had fun discovering what tools, languages and packages are available now and just tried to do my best.
I don't know yet where this will bring me, but I'm definitely happy to meet the community, try out games and potentially know that people would enjoy my first game.
Cheers,
JerkyHips