Game creators age

[TrickWithAKnife]

Might be surprised how many of us knew BASIC.
I taught myself when in was about 9 or 10.
Made a few incredibly bad games and music programs.

[AnthonyHJ]

Both my parents used punch-card when they were students and both my paternal grandparents apparently used them in their day-jobs. It's an ancient and venerable tradition that is thankfully gone now...

[Sapphi]

Both my parents used punch-card when they were students and both my paternal grandparents apparently used them in their day-jobs. It's an ancient and venerable tradition that is thankfully gone now...

Well! I started to doubt my youth when I found myself listening to copious amounts of psychedelic music and wearing saddle oxfords with white knee socks, but now I find out the punch card I use to clock in at my job is an ancient and venerable tradition...

I AM A LIVING FOSSIL

[papillon]

I think he meant punch-card *programming*. Although clocking in with punch cards is still pretty outdated, but not as much!

I believe my mother used punch cards at some point in her life.

[azureXtwilight]

Started doing my first game at 14 and finished it at 15, but yeah... XD It wasn't that awesome. I did it out of hobby, though. All was about the fun!

[KomiTsuku]

I started writing fiction around the age of 11. I've been working at it ever since. I was a child prodigy myself, I understand that unsureness very well. Just keep pressing and you'll discover that even if your skills aren't up to snuff in certain areas, that you can be augmented in those areas, just as you help boost others.

[clua]

Man, I wish I knew about engines when I was younger.
I spent my youth playing videogames and drawing comics.
Also I think internet has influenciated a lot on kids today, knowledge is everywhere now ahaha
I'm very glad! I'm not a kid anymore(...snif) but I can take advantage internet as well.

I guess I'm one of the oldest here, although I think the older crowd are being a little cryptic about their ages.
I'm 33, and I started working on my first game this year.

Nah, there's older I know for sure that some people are in their 40s (no names since I don't want to be rude >_>). If you're curious, there was a thread asking for when users were born, and PyTom did a little data analysis on the ages of active forumgoers- whether or not it's accurate depends

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1907 (age 105)   1 *
1908 (age 104)   2 **

...what?

[papillon]

Someone putting in the year wrong either by mistake or for luls

[lepapillonrouge]

...I haven't actually made a game yet successfully ;w;
But I discovered Ren'py when I was 16 or 17.

I wish I was like azure and make a game a year after I find Ren'py haha

[SusanTheCat]

I've been programming since I was 10. (That makes it 30+ years now!)

My very first game was a racing game on the Vic 20. It had 1K of Ram and I used it all up.

Another of my first games was a fan-game based on Tron (The original movie) done in Basic on the TRS Color Computer. It had graphics and everything.

When I was 15, I made a dungeon crawler in Basic for Math class.

Susan

[Crocosquirrel]

I wrote a little picture-book (with art!) at age six, and started writing seriously not long after my fourteenth birthday. In between those times, I discovered computers and went through a phase of learning everything I could about how they work. I even wrote a little math-quiz program for a class early in my high-school career in AtariBASIC. From what I hear the elementary school next door (for whom had been asking about something like that) used it until the last of the Ataris died of old age.

Later on, my C64 and I built a sci-fi adventure game in the 'tradition' of the AD&D Gold-box games. Not my finest-ever spritework (I never was any good at that), but the writing was workable, the game mechanics could be fine-tuned easily, and the first half of it worked fairly well. Problem was, it was also coded entirely in BASIC, and so was too heavy code-wise to work front to end on that poor machine. C64 Assembly mystified me.

One of these days, I want to see about remaking it in C++. Anyway, that was long ago. I've been writing now more than a quarter century, and I *think* I'm getting good enough at the writing thing to try for Pro status. My teachers think so, at any rate.

[OokamiKasumi]

I guess I'm one of the oldest here, although I think the older crowd are being a little cryptic about their ages.
I'm 33, and I started working on my first game this year.

Nope. 33 isn't even close to those of us in the 'oldest here' range. LOL!
-- Renpy is my first experience with any kind of programming, but I published my first short story in 1980, while I was still in high school and long before the Internet existed. I had to use a Typewriter. (I hate typewriters.)

We're being cryptic about our age because the sheer size of the age-gap between us and the kids still in school is kind of embarrassing.

[Crocosquirrel]

We're being cryptic about our age because the sheer size of the age-gap between us and the kids still in school is kind of embarrassing.

Just a tiny bit, yeah.

[SusanTheCat]

I just had my birthday!

I am now the Answer to the Life, the Universe, and Everything!

Susan

[Obscura]

Happy birthday Susan!

If somebody asks me the meaning of life, I'll just have to answer, "Susan!"