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Recreating Flappy Bird - Easier than I thought

Recreating Flappy Bird - Easier than I thought     The journey of making snake was pretty much a nightmare, however making flappy bird was actually much easier than I originally thought. Easy enough to the point where I made it in around 3-4 days not in a row though, it was very sporadic because I had a lot of things going on while making it. Day 1 - Where do I start?      I really had no idea where to start. Should I try to make the bird? Maybe the pipes? What about the UI? These questions always come to mind when building a game straight from scratch. What I like to do is to make the character first, and in this case that would be the bird! I started off simple, a yellow square, and a single script with the movement stuff. It took a while to finally get the flapping to work, but I got there eventually. The flapping however did not feel like the original game. This was because when the bird is falling, the velocity was usually greater than the flap velocity mak...
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Recreating Snake, the Goofy Five Day Journey

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Day 1 - Humble Beginnings The first day wasn't too bad, however I did forget a lot of stuff from the Kitchen Chaos Tutorial that I watched, and that probably means I didn't learn anything from that tutorial. But I like to think that the tutorial helped me reach the intermediate-ish stage of game development where I can actually make my own games without too much help from AI or any forums. Starting a project from scratch also just felt really weird. When I was following the tutorial, I didn't have to think much about how to organize everything, all I had to do was do exactly what the guy did. Now however, I had to think about exactly what I should name my scripts. And let me tell you, figuring out what to name your first script feel like trying to choose a perfect name for a new character in a book, its practically impossible. After some hard thought, I finally named it "SnakePlayer" (of course I changed it later on in the development process). In this script I wa...
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Welcome to my Game Development Blog!

Hello, and welcome to my first post! This post will be explaining what to expect to see on my blog.      Essentially, this whole blog is about my game dev journey and occasionally about other things like videogames , books , and other interests that I have. Currently I am recreating snake and so you can expect to see some posts about my journey doing that. After I feel confident recreating games and in my game dev skills , I will probably start making my own game and also probably start a Youtube channel covering the process of making a game. Thanks for reading,  Taco Dev
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