I made a video game about crafting... 

Happy Easter to you too! Objectively, this is a terrible game and I've definitely made a lot better ones in the past. But sometimes it's just fun to tinker and not worry too much about the outcome, you know? If you ever decide to try gamedev I would have you on my jam team any day! 🥰

Haha, well if she doesn't want to face her fear at least you can reassure her it's only for about 30 seconds of gameplay and then abruptly ends. Maybe it's a feature, not a bug? 😂

Absolutely spot on advice for crafts, gamedev, and in fact life in general!

I can't believe you played it long enough for such a high score. That's real friendship right there, haha 🥰

Oh wow you are putting my sock knitting to absolute shame! Four in a month(ish)? I've just managed to finish the pair I started in January! YT is all about rewarding very narrow focus but that's just not me, and I'm glad to have met so many likeminded people here. Feels good to know there's always *someone* who will appreciate my nonsense 😄

@@TheGiddyStitcher I live for nonsense! Also, I don’t do moderation very well, so yeah, the goal is a week+1 at least worth of homemade socks ASAP lol, but happily, crafting seems to be a socially acceptable addiction☺️

It's so true! This was probably one of my worse jam efforts, which I will definitely blame on being poorly for a lot of it, but mostly it was just that I really couldn't find the time. Still, the point of the jam was that even super smol projects can and should be celebrated, and I embraced that theme wholeheartedly with this one! 😅

Oh don't worry, it's in my calendar and everything :D

Thanks for watching!

I will eat an extra one for you!

@@TheGiddyStitcher Aww thank you. The Pizza legacy will continue through your good self (cue trumpets of triumph)

You know, they're actually a great combo of hobbies because one works out your brain and is very logical, the other gives your brain a break and is colourful and artistic! Just...do take care of your eyes, neither coders nor cross stitchers are known for their amazing eyesight 😬 What programming language are you learning?

@@TheGiddyStitcher i do already have a case of 'gamer eye' from staring at screens for both job and hobbies most of the day and then also cross stitching, oops! Liberal use of eyedrops is recommended and quite helpful.. when one remembers to use them 💀 Currently re-learning visual scripting in Construct 2, hoping to eventually transition to Playmaker in Unity and then to C#

Haha, I'm not sure spending so much time in a dark and dank back room writing code by myself is necessary "cool", but I'll take it!

Ok right I have to say, I absolutely love this comment it's chaotic and wonderful. And I absolutely want to write a proper long answer to this but we're also leaving for a night away in like one hour and I haven't packed. So this is just to say, I see you and I love you and I have made a note to come back and answer properly once we get back home 😂

Right. Sorry this is coming so late. Sometimes my brain goes into "no peopleing, no" mode and I just sort of hide away for a bit it's nothing personal! Been a stressful couple weeks 😬 Having something you actually want to make is 100% the way to go with learning this stuff. Back in the day I got started in webdev because our World of Warcraft guild needed a website, and I couldn't pay someone to make it so learned myself. Before long I was doing more complicated features for it and it turned into a whole career! I'm not sure if you have a particular language or anything in mind, some are more typically used for certain things to depending what you want to make it'd be wise to learn a particular one, but the thing with coding is it's more about concepts than syntax so once you can write code in language A, you can learn language B pretty easily. If you're looking into automation stuff I know Python is fairly popular for that. As for what "type" of game dev I dabble in. Er, not entirely sure what you mean. The "more enthusiasm than skill" type? The engine I'm using in this video is Godot and the language is GDScript (coincidentally very similar to Python), maybe that's what you meant? 😄 If you enjoy excruciating levels of detail on thought processes etc I've been doing devlogs about my main game over at youtube.com/@teahands Anyway I can't tell if you're the same "cross stitch and coding" person who joined the Discord shortly after this or not (different names, it can be very stressful working out who's who!) so if that is you, feel free to DM for further help and cheerleading etc. If it's not you, disregard, hopefully something in here was useful and not too late!

​@@TheGiddyStitcher first of all, i feel like i need to appologize for the shortcomings of FREAKING RU-vid that no longer notifies when we get comments or replies to our comments on other people's channels - i was just done appologizing for missing things people wrote to me six months ago - oopsie! (at the same time i quit posting like a million of years ago, i really didn't expect new comments). that made me think to check back here. thank you so much for taking the time to reply in depth, and also, most importantly, for seeing me.

@@TheGiddyStitcher oh, i forgot : by the type of game dev i meant along the lines of "is it retro-gaming?", basically "what do i type in google to start finding info and tutorials". this is just to clear up the confusion, hopefully. you really don't need to answer this, i'll check out your other channel and go from there. :*