My first game doesn't really exist anymore. All that exists is a gif. As in, it was so small and very tiny that a gif can display the whole thing. I used phaser because I didn't know any other languages besides javascript, and it was pretty awful. My friend did the art and talked about ideas. What was made was basically a prototype of some kind of gameplay, but it's really not much. I...didn't learn a whole lot. It was for the ludum dare that's theme was 'sacrifice'.

So we make Sacrifice Quack. I enjoy it only because the duck getting chucked chaining effect is very funny lol.

My first games were with scratch, but my first real, finished game with a proper game engine was Rampant. It was an endless top down shooter with a basic upgrade system. It isn't very good, it gets boring fast, and I think it's framerate dependent. But I remember it being fun to work on.

I made this back in may 2019, it was my first release, since then, I've made many other games https://rezioz.itch.io/confined-geometry

To be more precise, I started this one long ago, back in 2016 in Game Maker 8, and I quickly dropped it. Many years later, in 2019, I decided to complete it and to release it. I remember having a hard time to migrate it to Game Maker Studio fixing all compatibilities issues.

I'm thinking of making a sequel (maybe in 3D), but I'm not sure about this...

I’m gonna be dating myself a bit here haha, but I released my first game in 2011. It’s even still available to play if you have flash player lol. https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/576782

The first games I ever made were so long ago...text-based adventure games on the ZX Spectrum in BASIC, and being a kid at the time (~10 years old) I had no concept of programming properly or structuring anything. It was just strings being displayed based on input.

The only one I remember is a Superman game.

I haven't been coding games since I graduated. But in the last two semesters we had a game jam and this was the result. The topic was survival. You play a obese man sitting on a vehicle trying to eat unhealthy food to survive. https://gamejolt.com/games/hungry-shopping/44460

The very first game I can remember making as a kid was a dumb space shooter that I made with Game Maker for MS-DOS (no relation to the modern Game Maker), but the first one I released to the public was a basic platformer called Godawful Quest. It was made for the "I Can't Draw" game jam in 2019, which I saw as an opportunity to finally release something with no pressure to make it look pretty. The whole thing also ended up being a metaphor for a lot of my frustration in trying to make games up to that point.

The most important thing I learned from it was how to scope and finish something.

It's not necessarily worth playing, but here it is anyway:

https://midnightspiregames.itch.io/godawful-quest