HYIP-Man: Ask HN: What's the most important piece of code you've written?
Monday, January 14, 2019
Ask HN: What's the most important piece of code you've written?
Ask HN: What's the most important piece of code you've written?
What's the most important piece of code you've written? My answer is as follows... The most important piece of code I've written was a rudimentary 2d tile engine in QB64 for an RPG I never finished. It's memorable and important to me because of what writing it did for my confidence as a developer. At the time, writing a tile engine "from scratch", in my mind, would make me a "professional". I had been following a Game Development YouTube series called "Adventures In Game Development". I wanted to be a game developer! It was my dream! I was a novice developer when I took on that challenge. After a few articles and discussions with some people in various IRC channels, I began. A few hours later, I saw a map appear that I had hardcoded which contained 0's, 1's. When I saw the square patch of grass with water in the middle (my clever map design), I thought I could accomplish anything. It was one of those moments that changed my life. I'm not kidding when I say I had wanted to write a tile engine for a year, at least, before I was actually able to do it. I was probably around 14 years old, at the time. I hope you enjoyed reading my answer to this question and I look forward to reading yours! EDIT I found the link to one of the articles I read when writing the tile engine. http://bit.ly/1mNSQr0
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