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I Quit My Day Job to Spend Two Years Coding My Dream Game! It Fucking Sucks, Please Help

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Just two years ago, I was stuck in a 40 hour-a-week, 100K-a-year job with amazing health benefits. Sure, it was really satisfying and my work was appreciated, but it just wasnā€™t my dream.

Ever since I was young I wanted to make an amazing video game. Admittedly, I knew nothing about coding, or computer animation, or even writing a cohesive storyā€”But I had moxie, guts, and the perfect idea.

It involved space pirates and women being naked. Youā€™d play as an adventurer who fights a bunch of guys with every enemy being completely unique and there is zero grinding. Plus you could go into every single building and the environment is completely destructible.

Genius, I know. Ā 

All I needed was to learn how to transform my grand vision into zeroes and ones, then turn that into millions in profit.

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So I quit my very lucrative job, cashed out my 401 K, drained my life savings, told my boss to go fuck himself, and set out to make my video game masterpiece a reality.

And it fucking sucks. Oh sweet Jesus Christ did I screw up.

First, do you know how hard coding is? Well I fucking didnā€™t. I thought it just involved typing in all the cool stuff you wanted in your game but lo and behold ā€œCompelling protagonistā€ and ā€œBoss that changes its moveset every timeā€ are not valid prompts in the Unreal game engine.

So I spent months and thousands of dollars teaching myself how to code once my job told me I couldnā€™t come back even though I cried really hard over the phone. That PlayerUnknown guy took a bunch of buildings off of DeviantArt or some shit but apparently he still had to make the rest?!

Guess how much game I have to show for all that hard work? So far Iā€™ve made one of the main characterā€™s eyeballs and half of a bush. As for gameplay mechanics, I made the eyeball blink once. Thatā€™s it.

If thereā€™s anyone out there who can help me code my billion dollar video game ideaā€”or anyone who wants to buy my computer off meā€”it would be a huge help. Because my old job wonā€™t hire me back and I need cash ASAP or Iā€™m going to get evicted.