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Ah the classic “I planned to make a game, but just ended up writing code that someday will enable me to make a game”. Is there a sort of comment standard machine, like the GP32 of old, that’s ready to go with a good community?


aside, cool re: GP32

> Game Park planned their system to be powerful and useful, but they also wanted users to be able to create homebrew software. GP32 users could register the unit on the official website and get a free suite of development tools to create their own programs.


To be fair they had actually written a game some time ago that they got running on the system.


didn't know that's a meme


Similar to wanting to start a blog, but instead of writing a post, spending significant effort building the platform. First post becomes ‘how I built my blog’.


Probably the Steam Deck




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