Hello there!
I would just like to share my gamedev journey on the first game I made, while promoting here. Wandering Soul is a randomized dungeon crawler, where you fight monsters, get stat upgrades, and get a highscore based on how long you last. I started conceptualizing this game way back February 2023, after watching a Godot tutorial from Heartbeast (you should definitely check his channel out). This game is heavily inspired by that tutorial and most of the base scripts are from there as well. Huge thanks to him, of course! I started this game as a way to learn how Godot works, and to showcase my monster pixel art. Coding was the hardest part for me, as I have no background with it prior on doing this. During my first tries I managed to learn the importance of the copy and paste command. Though, overtime I gotten better in asking the forums for help, and that's where I discovered the beautiful community of Godot on gamedev.
Life got busy after that and I wasn't able to work on it much so I got to release the first version on June 2024. I've finished most of the features I want (and can do), and published it along with a trailer and a little bit of marketing. Awesome people left some useful feedback on my little game, and I managed to implement them within a month. During those time, I really felt like a game developer. Listening to feedback, and figuring out how to implement them. All that stuff. It really felt good.
After that's done, I decided to leave it and move on to other projects. Unfortunately, nothing clicked. I still had trouble with coding, and most of my ideas were ambitious where I get stuck trying to implement a feature then just gave up on everything eventually. It was only during this year when I decided to get back on Wandering Soul to implement a feature that should have been there when I first released it. I tried my best to figure everything out, this time all on my own. And it was exhilarating, specially when I finally figured out how to make it work. Only then did I fully understand why I wanted to do this in the first place, and probably why everyone's so passionate about game development. The feeling of identifying a problem and finding the best solution is unmatched. Seeing things work after meticulous testing does something in my brain I can't fully explain. One thing is for certain though, I'm only in the beginning of my journey and I'll continue making games.
Anyway, thank you for reading all that. I just want to share my experience with this awesome community, and you can share yours too if you like.
Let's keep on making those games!