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Products that do what I'm 48 and finally learning how to be a game developer does

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My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and made a word game▲454
2024 · grandmasword.com
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90s.dev – Game maker that runs on the web▲352
2025 · 90s.dev
3IT
I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week▲1,079
2019 · s-poony.github.io
46M
6 months ago I quit my job to pursue indie dev. Here is our first game▲858
2013 · playadrift.com
5AF
A friend and I spent 6 years making a simulation game, finally released▲1,157
I've seen some interests in (simulation) video games here on HN so I thought I'd share a short version of our story. More than 6 years ago, me and my friend from university were playing around with an idea of making a game we always wanted to play. We worked on it on weekends but the progress was quite slow, especially due to so many dead ends and wasted effort. Eventually however, we solidified our direction and decided to take the risk to resign from our well paid SWE jobs and work on it full time. It took more than a year but yesterday we have finally released it on Steam:…
2022
6IM
I'm 14, I learned Objective-C, and this is my first iPhone game▲386
2012 · itunes.apple.com
7IS
I spent two years working on an HTML5 game. I finally released it▲515
2012 · ektomarch.com
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Game Builder▲189
A new game, where you build games, by Google
2019
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Web.dev by Google▲818
Learn how to build for the web and see where you stand 🌟
2018 · web.dev
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dev.to▲368
Where programmers share ideas and help each other grow
2017
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%%30%30: A Game▲608
2015 · github.com
12IM
I made a SQL game to help people learn / challenge their skills▲547
2023 · lost-at-sql.therobinlord.com
13DP
Developer portfolio that's a 2D game▲19
2024 · github.com
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Code Kingdoms▲104
Learn to code with Minecraft and Roblox. Ages 8-14
2015
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Practice.dev▲196
Learn programming for free.
2020
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Code Cards▲217
A card game that teaches you how to code
2015
17IN
Indiedevs.net – A place for indie game developers▲82
2021 · indiedevs.net
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Developer Typing Game▲100
Platform where developers train their coding typing speed
2021
19IB
I built a word game. My mom thinks it's great. What do you think?▲513
2025 · whatsit.today
20IA
I AI-coded a tower defense game and documented the whole process▲319
I'm a software developer with 20+ years of experience but during this time I never programmed any games, but I really wanted to for the longest time. With the advent of AI coding agents I thought that this is the best time to try and so I've learned a bit of Phaser.js (a Javascript based game engine) and entered Beginner's Jam Summer 2025 - a game jam for beginners in the game dev industry that allows AI coding. After around 25-30 hours (working mainly after my full-time day job) I managed to submit the game I called "Tower of Time" (the theme of the jam was "Time Travel"). You can play it…
2025 · github.com
21GC
GameDevs.com, a social news site for game developers▲118
2014 · gamedevs.com
22FG
Former game devs building a platform showcasing game projects▲115
2023 · projectgoobii.com
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Codin Game▲149
Learn and improve your coding skills, while playing games.
2015
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I'm 17 and wrote a guide on how to build your own programming language▲149
Hey! I’m JC. I’m 17 and part of Hack Club, a nonprofit where we help teenagers ship programming projects with their friends while growing technically. A while ago, I asked myself the question, “How exactly do programming languages work behind the scenes?” It seemed really daunting until I went to a half hour workshop at a high school hackathon about writing a tree-walk interpreter and realized that getting started was actually super fun. This guide is designed in the vein of that - to get people, especially teenagers, started on learning how to build a programming language in a literal…
2024 · easel.hackclub.com

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