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For the last couple of years, I\u2019ve been working toward becoming the game developer I always wanted to be. It\u2019s a dream I\u2019ve had since before I was ten, back when I spent endless hours on our old MS-DOS tower desktop. My siblings and I played everything we could get our hands on\u2014Warcraft II<\/em>, Wacky Wheels<\/em>, Hocus Pocus<\/em>, Crystal Caves<\/em>, C&C: Red Alert<\/em>, Day of the Tentacle<\/em>, Curse of Monkey Island<\/em>\u2014you name it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our dad even built us a custom ASCII launcher, a game selection screen where we could press a single key and jump straight in, no need to dig through the text UI. Looking back, it was basically the MS-DOS version of Steam Big Picture Mode\u2014very usable and way cooler for 10-year-old me. Good times.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

it was basically the MS-DOS version of Steam Big Picture Mode<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Some of those early games really inspired me. Add exploring a kid-friendly programming language (START) to that and it opened my eyes to the endless possibilities of game creation. I loved sketching levels for imaginary games, dreaming up action platformers, and envisioning the most beautiful pioneer cities in Anno 1602<\/em>. I kept playing and loving games for years, but I never truly “got started” on making one. I didn\u2019t have a clear vision of a game I wanted to create\u2014there are so many<\/strong> great ones out there already!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I loved drawing levels of made up games<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Around 2020, something changed. I came up with an idea for a game that felt exciting and clicked with me on multiple levels. Trees have always been a subtle but recurring theme in games I\u2019ve enjoyed, and learning about Pando\u2014the enormous tree super-colony in Utah\u2014sparked my imagination. It gave me the push to explore this concept further and see where it might lead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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By early 2023, I decided to stop dreaming and start doing. I began teaching myself to work with Godot 4.2, committing to weekly sessions of learning and creating. It\u2019s been a journey with plenty of ups and downs, but the idea has grown into a project I truly love. There\u2019s still a long way to go, but I\u2019m getting somewhere\u2014and I\u2019m excited to keep going. Let\u2019s do this!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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