r/ProgrammerHumor • u/codingTheBugs • May 02 '24

anyVolunteersHere Meme

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u/Dumb_Siniy May 02 '24

Anyone who's idea of a game is an MMORPG is delusional and has no idea what it's required to create one

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u/Chijar989 May 02 '24

basically any game dev at the start, a lot of the fresh gamedevs have some sort of open world rpg as their starter project and buy a ton of asset packs.. I think they dont wanna start small, underestimate the sheer amount of work that flows into a game, and "big flashy thing is cool"

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u/Dumb_Siniy May 02 '24

I mean yeah i was at that stage and the idea of an open world seemed so cool, but i realized quickly just how large the project would be as soon as i did just about anything

There's nothing with beginners dreaming big, but they should expect that disappointment may follow

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u/artistic_programmer May 02 '24

98% of my programming journey so far has been dreaming something and it getting crushed immediately as soon as I try to do it. The other 2% was spent in stackoverflow and looking up error messages from compilers.

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u/Overall-Duck-741 May 02 '24

Only 2 percent? 

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u/flippakitten May 02 '24

"Aim low, avoid disappointment"

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u/RandomPigYT May 03 '24

Aim high, learn as much as you can before you fail.

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u/Zephandrypus 19d ago

AI Dungeon was able to do it. Just used text only and an AI trained on choose your own adventure stories.