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Tried making a simple game with two different beginner courses
Started with a free video series on YouTube. Got stuck on moving a character sprite after the third video. Then paid $15 for a course on Udemy called 'Python for Total Beginners'. The teacher explained the same thing with pictures and broke it into smaller steps. Made my first working game in a weekend. What other beginner courses actually help you finish a project?
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adams.uma1mo ago
Honestly, that free YouTube series got me through my whole first game just fine.
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christopherw341mo ago
What finally clicked for you in that second course? Honestly, getting stuck on moving a sprite is the worst.
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gavin4691mo ago
Read this old blog post that framed it like giving directions to a lost friend. You don't just yell "be at the store." You say "from the lamp post, walk two blocks north." I was telling my sprite "move right" but not "based on where you are now, move this many pixels right every frame." That "every frame" part was the key. I had to put the movement code in the update loop, not just run it once at the start.
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