honestly making my own game engine has been like hitting a limit break in my brain. like now that i've proved that Starlight can support making a full game start to finish, i feel like there's nothing i can't do. i can go beyond being a good-enough programmer to being an actually good one, and that ability can support my design work more effectively than ever before
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in reply to @hthrflwrs's post:
even though i haven't worked on it in a while, i've been getting a similar feeling while working on my engine - previously when i've tried to learn graphics programming i'd just give up after getting a mesh to render, but now i've been stacking more advanced techniques on top, reading papers, and slowly approaching the point where i could actually build a thing
being able to feel your abilities improving in real-time is amazing
yeah absolutely!!! i read all of Game Programming Patterns in like three days a couple months ago and could feel my brain expanding in real time
ooh yeah i had that book recommended to me - i really need to get around to reading some gamedev books, but i've been stuck in the hell that is Architecture for the past few weeks lmao