I’m trying to make a pocket pet game, like the evolution of all the little calculator screened toys in the 90’s and 00’s. I don’t want it to be the whale hunting, spyware riddled garbage that most phone games are. I’d rather like to release it on F-Droid instead of Google if I release it at all. I have all of it worked out on paper, from the random tables to the creature stats, to the combat mechanics, you can play it as a pen and paper if you wanted to. Problem is, I’m a pen and paper guy, and I’m having an awful time trying to learn anything about code. Where do I go to get help with this?
Scratch is a simple drag and drop app kids use to learn to code. I’ve seen kids create pretty elaborate games with it. Maybe you could play with that and figure out if your concept is in fact simple enough to create on your own.
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I would encourage you to try to learn gaem development, it’s fun :D I’ve personally tried Unity and Godot and prefer the latter bc it’s oepn-source and I like the workflow but both are good.
Brackeys makes the best Unity tutorials and he’s starting to make some pretty good Godot ones too. My first games were pretty much following along the Brackeys tutorials and then trying to extend the game by adding more levels, gimmicks, etc. and learning a bunch of new things along the way. Some more Godot specific tutorials I like are GDQuest and HeartBeast.
Good luck on your game development journey! :D
I’m learning Game Maker rn, would be willing to try to figure out how to implement some of the features as a co-learning thing, if you’re interested in some random dipshit
The real question is how organized your design doc(s) is/are, honestly, you could probably make whatever you’re thinking about in RPG maker if you weren’t afraid of it being generic AF so long as the organization is solid
cant you use chatgpt?
You can use it to learn or to code most of it. …if coding was all that it took
This might seem crazy but maybe try an AI editor like Cursor, Cline or Windsurt.
Even the free versions of Gemini, ChatGPT, Grok and DeepSeek aren’t bad.
Just tell them what you want, attach any drawings you have and make it a web app first.
This may be the easiest option. I’m not against ai for personal use, I’m just worried I may if I do release it people will judge negatively on that.
