silly little perfect angel princess sweetheart. i am your favorite mutual and your best friend :)
it's unreal how much of game development is about solving the problem "if the player has clicked on one button, prevent them from interacting with any other button until the first button is done doing its thing"
this piece of code was very annoying to write
Don't get me started on Pause menus. All those buttons that were waiting to do cool stuff? Okay, don't do any of that, instead, these buttons? You're up.
Now see, I've only dipped my toes into the extremely divisive world of javascript, and not even all that much for game-dev, but this is a problem I understand. These kinds of problems, as weird as it is to say, are the ones I love solving, for some reason.
I used to make little adventure games in Visual Basic back in school, basically choose-your-own-adventure but with some tracked RPG stats as well, and it was basically entirely problem solving like this.
Sadly, the older I got, the more things I wanted to consider when making games like that - which meant different engines or languages, and complexity skyrocketed, so I ended up stopping.
Suffice to say, this brought back memories, somehow.
