I’m a master of excuses and I’ve made plenty in the past two years to avoid writing this blog post. My excuses? I didn’t know what to write about, and nothing excited me enough to write about it.

That ends today. I am going to write about developing my first indie game.

Before I get into that, a quick summary of me. I’m a front-end software engineer working full-time from home. I’ve built websites professionally since 2020, but I’ve played video games for much, much longer.

To keep my first post short, I’m combining those two interests to learn indie game development. Funny enough, that means learning even more disciplines I’m interested in: UX design, art, narrative writing, marketing, and much, much more.

I don’t know what my first game will be about, but I do have a game mechanic in mind that I want to build the game around. I’m certain about three things so far: it will be a roguelite, it will use pixel art (said to be the easiest art style to learn), and it will be turn-based.

I abandon many things. Even things I was once excited about. But this time will be different. I’m making a commitment to myself: work on my game at least once a week, then write about what I learned, how the game is going, or anything else worth mentioning. See you next week!