Bruno, how do I make a game? 🤔

You will want to learn three things:

1. The engine you will use: Godot for most games, Unreal for hyper realistic games.
2. How to market a game and sell it on Steam
3. How to design a fun, dynamic and intriguing game

Yet, start small. Make micro games, that take 5 minutes to finish and ask your friends to play. Hear their feedback and improve upon it. And never, ever, give up. Go gradually making greater and more polished games. Be ambitious, dream big, one step at a time.

If you don't LOVE making games, you WILL quit. Game programming is torture to people who don't enjoy. When someone tells me he/she will start making games, I fully expect them to quit, until they prove me they love making games (including debugging).

☸ Is life just work, eat, breed and then die by some disease?

Most people doesn't want to learn the truth. The few who do in fact want to, will completely refuse the truth if presented in front of their faces*. So, to filter those who "kinda want to know the truth" from the fewer who want the truth, I've hidden a link which leads to a Brazilian Youtube channel with the initials "D.P.". They teach everything: finances, geography, health... and many things I prefer to currently ommit.

* An example: "We become what we think about".

There is also Dr. Lair Ribeiro, maybe the best doctor of the 21th century. Although many of his teachings are considered polemic, it is way easier to believe than what "DP" teaches.

• Dr. Lair Ribeiro Channel

You also can contact me personally, either by email (dev.brunoperes@gmail.com) or by Discord (tldmbruno).

Q: "Why just Brazilian-portuguese content?" ; A: Because Brazil has the most abundant and diverse fauna and flora in the world - and some other reasons.

🎲 Tabletop RPGs: Play it properly

I've played Tabletop RPGs for nine years. My players and I consider myself an excelent Game Master. Here is the secret for great games (nine years of experience, condensed within an small article), you accepting the information or not:

1. Ditch rule books
2. The secret number
3. Eliminate Shoeleather
4. 1st Secret you should know
5. 2nd Secret you should know
6. 3rd Secret you should know

All your system needs are the following rules and NOTHING ELSE:

• "What dice do we roll (and what are the probabilities of success for easy, normal and hard tasks)"
• "How many hits can a adult human take before they die? (and how does armor interfere with this)"
• "After the combat starts, in what order the combatants attack? (Do everyone attack at once, or is it sequential, going around the table?)
• "For mystical inclined characters, they should roll twice. The first is to know if the spell is successful. The second is to know how successful it is."
• "What is the procedure to create a character and start playing? The process MUST NOT take more than 3 minutes. Players can flesh out their backstories, and reveal it, as the game goes."

That's it. Classes, item lists, loot tables, spell lists, and everything else MUST BE KEPT AWAY from the game rules. They are bound to your game WORLD, not your game RULES. Do never confuse the two. I've seen too many great Game Masters waste their precious years on game rules because they made the mistake to merge game-world and game-rules together. I've also made that mistake in the past.