I formally in love with game development through CMU’s Game Creation Society club in Spring 2022. However, I have been creating games and other interactive experiences before then, and especially since then.
Swordfight
This is technically the first video game I have ever developed. I made for CMU CS Academy’s game contest in high school during freshman year of high school. The game was a simple overhead swordfighting game, where two players can each move around and perform a simple attack. Because the code runner would only render images and receive input, there was no time. As a result, the game required either holding or spamming a key (I forget which) to increment the time. I recall making the project in one or maybe two class periods in about 300 lines of (repetitive) code. ...