I have been a C systems coder for over 40 years. I'm retired now but I still code. I have listened to many of your videos and find your method of teaching as well as your coding approach inspiring. At the age of 71 I find a great deal of joy in your work, and I applaud you as one who 'goes his own way' in your coding technique. Thank you so much for pointing out the fact that Game Jams are an excellent way to forge a career in game programming. You have helped me make a decision of what framework to use and since I am a 'C' coder I have settled on SDL2 for coding up my games. Python looks very intriguing, but I don't think I could get past the fact that there are no braces to block off code segments. I suppose I could try one game to see how it goes. I wish you great success my young friend with the hopes that when you reach my age you are still coding games. God Bless You

@xWatexx

2 ай бұрын

Can you, perhaps, please enlighten me on how the hell I’m supposed to communicate with USB devices? I can’t seem to figure it out. I’m programming in C on the bare metal.

@turtlexhdc

2 ай бұрын

Try RayLib :) Has a more complete set of tools, than SDL2

@FaithfulComforter

2 ай бұрын

@@xWatexx To communicate with USB devices when programming with C, you can use the USB library provided by the operating system or a third-party library. Here's a general outline of the steps involved in communicating with USB devices using C: 1. Include the necessary header files: Include the header files required for USB programming. These header files may vary depending on the operating system and the library you are using. 2. Initialize the USB library: Initialize the USB library to set up the necessary data structures and resources for USB communication. The initialization process may involve opening a USB device handle or obtaining a reference to the USB device. 3. Enumerate and select the target device: If you have multiple USB devices connected to your system, you need to enumerate the available devices and select the target device you want to communicate with. Typically, this involves iterating through the list of connected devices and identifying the device based on its vendor ID and product ID. 4. Open the USB device: Once you have identified the target device, open it to establish a connection. This step usually involves obtaining a device handle or a file descriptor that represents the USB device. 5. Configure the USB interface: USB devices can have multiple interfaces, and each interface may have multiple endpoints for data transfer. You need to configure the appropriate interface and endpoints for communication. This step may involve setting the interface and endpoint settings, such as transfer type, packet size, and direction (input or output). 6. Perform USB I/O operations: After the USB device is successfully opened and configured, you can perform read and write operations to exchange data with the device. You can use functions provided by the USB library to send control requests, bulk transfers, interrupt transfers, or isochronous transfers, depending on the specific requirements of your USB device. 7. Handle errors and cleanup: It's important to handle errors that may occur during USB communication. If any errors occur, you should gracefully handle them and release any allocated resources. When you are done communicating with the USB device, close the device handle or file descriptor and release any resources allocated by the USB library. Note that the specific details of USB programming in C can vary depending on the operating system and the library you are using. You may need to consult the documentation or reference materials provided by the operating system or the library to get more specific information on how to perform USB communication using C.

@xWatexx

2 ай бұрын

@@FaithfulComforter very nice response from ChatGPT. However, I already went to it for advice and got the same answer. Problem is, I can’t use the OS-provided libraries without the OS. I need to make those libraries.

@shazam314

2 ай бұрын

@@FaithfulComforter Thanks, ChatGPT.

The key take away from this is - you are lucky to have responsible parents that would only allow you to play 30 minutes a day. The root of all of your success is this.

@TheInterestingInformer

20 күн бұрын

Fr bruh I can’t focus on anything for more than an hour 💀

@youtubenightcrawler9571

16 күн бұрын

Imagine if they only let him play for 1 minute a day. He'd be god tier.

@raging_demon3371

14 күн бұрын

also his love for video games helped him to learn how to code so he could make games

@eugeniosabater8449

13 күн бұрын

I played like 4 hours but at 12 I only played Doom 2! But now I love drawing so I don't care much about playing just a couple of hours!

It’s crazy how much you improved over 10 years!

@purplevanilla

2 ай бұрын

it's normal for developers improving their projects after 10 years.

"It's like Super Smash Bros, but bad!"

@RedstonekPL

4 ай бұрын

so exactly like super smash bros!

@slagrajag

2 ай бұрын

I’d buy that for a dollar

@horde6486

18 күн бұрын

@@RedstonekPL real

Your journey so inspirational. I've been learning Python for a few years now, and recently started my pygame career. My games aren't too complex, but one day I'll reach your level!

I really love this type of videos, they're really inspiring! I'm currently starting my 3rd year of gamedev, I have 10 games so far (8 of them made for jams), and I'm currently working on turning my best jam game so far into a commercial project! Let's hope I'll be as skilled as you are by the time I reach my 10th year ;)

@petsloverscontent

3 ай бұрын

Have you Deployed them in app store or Play Store so far?

Dude, I learned PyGame with one of your tutorials a long time ago and that was my first real solid contact with classes and heuristic methods. From there I started to code simulations of metabolic networks as a physics grad student using the same design patterns as sprites and now I work as a web developer. I've been visiting your work for almost the full decade and you're one of my all-time strongest personal inspirations that helped defining my way of thinking and work ethics. Approaching complex problems from zero and creating entire frameworks from scratch, no matter how long and challenging it may be, has been my philosophy since then. You pretty much ignited my passion for coding and I'm so proud of how far you went and how absolutely gorgeous your games have become. Thank you so much for the content and kawabanga.

@DaFluffyPotato

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing! This is one of the main reasons I enjoy making educational content.

@user-up6cw4fl7w

Ай бұрын

​@@DaFluffyPotato👍

@halal_boiy

Ай бұрын

@@DaFluffyPotatohey bro, I really want to learn how to make games but idk where to start

You're such an inspiration. Thanks for all this amazing content and congrats on your amazing and continued improvement over these 10 years. Happy holidays!

A decade of development is crazy, hope for much more in the future!

I'm a year and a half into learning to code and a mix between app dev and basic game dev using JavaScript; I did my teething on JS and so have continued with that. Watching this was both daunting and hughely inspirational. I'm not even trying get into game dev as a career, it's purely a hobby, but I love it, warts and all, failures and successes. I don't recall seeing your channel before; you've earned my sub.

I remember when I started with pygame, I started with your channel and it was great for me. Because I started strong with your videos. You were very inspirational and I believe it was your videos made me to do gamedev. I mainly focused on my art side (it was perfect but it got worsened now though, no practice for the last 2 years, I can get it back easily ). Even though I only developed one fully functional game (kind of, only a handful of people played ;) ) and one big demo type prototype, it was great for me. After some time, I dropped gamedev because chemical engineering major is not easy and right now I try to get graduate school hahaha. I want to get back to those projects so badly but let's see how it will be in future.

Awesome! Nice to see PyGame being pushed this far. And I actually have of Murder and Moonshine wishlisted. Cool to hear you're working on it.

Seeing this stuff is crazy, your skill and hard work is inspiring!

Really cool to see your path. Youre a real inspiration for me and a lot of people. Hoping to get to your level some day

I only discovered your work a year or two ago and you're doing amazing stuff! Great job!

Dude, it's amazing. I wish I've done as much as you when I was in high school. Aside from my classes, I only learned some web development, and I only went back to programming when I finished the uni. Now at 33 years I'm getting into graphics and game programming, so I have a lot of catching up to do. Anyway, you've got a new subscriber, and I'll check out your games for sure

I really admire your ability to pick projects that are of practical size. For whatever reason all of my projects end up evolving into MMORPGs at some point, and I have yet to finish a game.

@VeryRGOTI

2 ай бұрын

Try to make arcade games with mouse-only controls or a set amount of mechanics.

Love seeing videos like this. It's always inspiring to see other dev's journeys. Keep up the good work!!

Great video. Sharing with my fellow video game developers, instructors, and risers. Thanks for sharing a blurb of your original one-file source code. Reminds me of my earlier work in BASIC before I learned about arrays.

This is an amazing journey, congrats on all your achievements! I’m on my third year of game dev thanks to you, and it’s the reason I’m doing computer science. Keep it up and I look forward to what you make next.

Man, you are incredibly talented and hard-working, I could never! I wish you all the best and also merry christmas, Fluffy!

As a professional software dev, I've known all the fundamentals for years and I've yet to make games as fun and appealing as yours. I love this video because you zoned in on the right thing, making games. Glad you were able to step back to see how far you've come. And the last 2 projects in particular look exciting. Keep it up!

Top-notch video! It was really cool to see how you improved over the years 👍

thanks a ton man , you've inspired me and whole lot of others to make games. I'm actually following up with your tutorials as i make my own game. Happy holidays

Great video. Makes me feel lazy though as I haven't started a new pygame project in years. Your particle effects are amazing and I need to look into your moderngl usage. I got stuck on a bug with one-way slanted floor tile physics in Flyboy 18 months ago, decided to try Godot, and got distracted by real life before ever doing it.

bro finally uploaded again! can't wait to watch this tmr, it's currently 3 am lol. also perfect timing cuz its semester break and i decided to get back into pygame today.

Great video! Your story inspires me and makes me sure that what's in your head is the most important! Thanks for the tips and helpful links! :))

You've come a long way from writing code that looks like an internet meme to writing your own networking framework. Congratulations your amazing progress.

You're really inspiring, it's so cool seeing how much you've accomplished!

Man I've been watching since 2019 and I can't believe how long it's been and how far you've come! I use Godot, but your videos have and will always be an inspiration! I hope that my own gamedev and KZread journey can be as fruitful as yours one day! Wish listed Of Murder and Moonshine. If you're working on it, I know it'll be quality! Happy (almost) New Year God bless! I know you'll do even more special things in 2024!

Wow, you have had one hell of a journey. It was very refreshing to watch and see your progression. Good Luck in 2024, let the Journey continue !

The variables for every entity is very relatable it's cool how your games got better during 2018 so that's 5 years of gamedev expirence. Inspired

I have been following your development for the last 2 years which has been inspirational for me. I'm now using Godot as my primary game engine (tried several others previously) and I'm really hoping you will start putting out Godot tutorials as well especially after looking at how good you are with Godot in the game jam!

im not cs student but am currently learning proggraming by my self and was making a simple 2d shooting and saw ur video then i looked into it and wow your dedication is mindblowing

Congrats! You got some awesome portfolio and a new subscriber 😁

As someone who wants to code games in the future this really was nice to watch, keep it up.

Thanks for this, man. Truly. I've been messing around with engines for years but I've never finished a project because of my fear of negative criticism. Hopefully I'll be able to turn it around.

Cool journey mate❤❤🎉 Congrats

I usually do not write any comments under KZread videos, however, Your work, and Your story is inspiring - keep doing what You are doing, You're good at it!

Be Blessed and Successful in all your actions. The fact that you share your programming journey woths all of the Netflix's movie data base 😂. You're awesome,kid. Keep inspiring us the rest of the pythonistas all over the world. Salutations from France.

The guy is being humble, some of the stuff he just brushed over was extremely impressive. I am excited for the kids that are inspired by this video, they will have such high standards set for themselves.

This video really inspires me to learn more about game development. Thank you so much!

wow that is a dam journey ! congrats ! and keep it up man !!!!

I purchased super potato bruh, and knew you'd be going places; here's to another 10 years for you. Well done, and thanks for always learning and exhibiting so publicly, and honestly.

ty for all the hard work, you are one of the rares!

Really inspiring! Thank You for sharing 😊👍

Although I'm not a game developer, I appreciate and respect you for sharing your journey in a video!

Nice Video! Keep up the good work

Tbh, bro... you didnt gave me motivation and inspiration to make huge projects in programming. You just showed me that simple and small things are awesome. Thank you sm!

7:37 that's so cool! Never seen anything like that.

Really interesting and nice Video! :) About time I finally finish a prototype/idea 😅

Great video! Kudos for starting Programming at such a young age!

Só good to see your progress!

You are probably one of the most cool people I have ever seen,your progression over the years really inspire me.

Your story sounds exactly like mine, except I've only got 4-5 years in python/pygame and gamedev experience, its so inspring to see where it could take you.

Thanks for inspiration! Got yourself a subscriber :D

This is awesome bro!

You are the biggest and the best pygame content creator, im always learning while watching your videos

It is so cool to see you grow as a developer over time =D

Yay, an actual new video!

This guy will pop off. Games looks insanely good. Oozes quality!

your games are so cool i can't even tell how much

Ngl you do inspire me.

You and Pirate Software are my favorite game developers

Congrats on finishing your degree!

Brilliant video thankyou

absolutely brilliant, well done...

What an incredible portfolio!

I don't know why but this really motivated to keep learning game development, I had just recently hit a slump so thank you

This is so awesome, I didn't know the dev behind super potatoe bruh had such a long history with pygame! I mentioned super potatoe bruh in my class, to show people what is possible with pygame 😅 Big inspo for sure... I would be curious to know how many hours per month you think you spent on making games!

@DaFluffyPotato

Ай бұрын

Probably 20-30

5:28 omg that's the game I've be searching for like 3 years! can't believe that I could found the game this way!

Very inspiring thanks for sharing.

This video is quite inspiring. Moral of the story is if you want to get better at coding then you need to code, code, and code and you will learn and become better over the months/years eventually.

How are you able to make games so quickly? It feels like it takes me about a day to implement a single simple feature and you're able to churn them out in matter of days. Seriously amazing!

@deumnoctis

4 ай бұрын

Copy a lot of the base mechanics form previous code and write spaghetti code, I also often find my self working on a problem longer than I should jsut because I want to get it perfect but just writing shitty code at first and then improving on it honestly worked better for me

@DaFluffyPotato

4 ай бұрын

Python makes features not take much code, so practice makes it go super fast.

@apekz3592

4 ай бұрын

Make a basic pygame library for less boilerplate

dope, thanks for sharing

19:05 this concept is now a full fledged Google Play Store Game 😂😂😂😂

Possibly because I am still a fledging programmer I don't get it, but I don't know how someone goes from following a bunch of tutorials and making a game to understanding how to code your own shader and VFX to be reused in later games. Without that book or that tutorial or some other resource, how can you go from one to the other? From being to code things which don't exist yet? For which there is no step by step resource? I'm just in awe of you, man. It's incredible what you've achieved.

So excited for the next few years. Congrats on Graduating University! As a 10+ year Python Developer I love your videos because I can pursue my game development hobby in a language I love. Thanks!

@sereneorb

2 ай бұрын

Hey i want to also do in game dev just by investing my time and money in python. Do u think i can become stable game developer by mastering python?

You started a year earlier than me. When I was 12, I still just another cart pulled by the train. I tried to make something for myself too, but the distinct in education sure make differences. When I started, I was just following tutorials hell and struggle with life. I tried so hard to make something more tangible, but always ended up in failure. Maybe we had different understanding of games when we started. Back then it's like making platformer is good enough to call it a day or something. I tried to make something impossible, far far beyond my own skills. The worst thing is I don't even know what I'm trying to make. Maybe this is one of reasons we're different. I'm someone that played a lot of games while you're someone that started making games because you've got time limit for gaming session. Since I was 6 y/o I play videogames for at least 6hrs/day during weekend, and I also play videogames on PC during weekday for 2hrs/day since I was 10. While I've got limited by my own freedom, you've got creative by your own limitations. I forgot to mention that during these past 10 years, there're several periods that I spent all my waking hours gaming. So roughly 15 to 18 hours/day. So it's not like I'm being super productive here either, and this is the consequences of my own actions. Your success is well deserved, and you'll have much greater success in the future. Meanswhile I'll have to crawl up and find my way toward the first success milestone to make myself a proper debut as a game developer.

Making MULTIPLE games without ever using lists or OOP is crazy

This video is inspiring and disheartening at the same time...game dev didnt seem like a possibility when i was younger and seeing what people have done now makes me wish i could go back. Im still going to give it a try.

@DaFluffyPotato

3 ай бұрын

Learning goes much quicker when you're older and smarter.

The rapid quality increase of your games over time is just astounding!

@DaFluffyPotato

4 ай бұрын

10 years is a long time though

@dwadthechad

4 ай бұрын

@@DaFluffyPotato still it's impressive how early on you started

I really like the look of that fishing game, would you ever release the source for your uncompleted games? Great video!

@DaFluffyPotato

4 ай бұрын

I release most of my "unreleased" code on Patreon. I don't think the fishing game is there yet though.

I fucking lost it at your description of Super Launchers at 1:46 😂

This video gave me a huge bunch of inspiration, I do wanna ask you one thing though... If im watching a tutorial and I don't understand some parts of it, do I finish the vid or not? like would it still help me?

@DaFluffyPotato

4 ай бұрын

There should be some fragments you understand still, so you should still be benefiting a bit, but generally it's best to focus on understanding everything that's happening.

there is tutorial about pygame, platformer stuff like that but where can I find the game mechanics to learn! awesome visualizations like yours!

Just starting my journey hope to get like you😄!

It's really interesting, I'm learning python

I am finishing my second year of a computer science degree. Coding is a lot of fun but sometimes writing file managing systems gets boring. I should try out pygame.

in less time i learnt 3d but also 3d has gotten better over the last 3-5 years

As you mentioned mediapipe, did you find any documentation for it? Last time I looked I only found some basic example articles and the C++ SDK is completely different, so I had to reverse engineer the API.

@DaFluffyPotato

2 ай бұрын

Yeah, it's a bit scarce.

I’m learning Python at the moment, my first programming language. I have no idea what I want to do with it but I really appreciate this.

@Qrealtorpa

3 ай бұрын

Same

Hue Flowing is soooo frinking cool!

Is this for a resume? If so, I can't imagine any python related job rejecting an application with this Amazing job!

@DaFluffyPotato

4 ай бұрын

Nope. Recruiters look for different stuff. Thanks though.

learning java now and not sure where i want to take it from there but im hoping someday i can make games as well

Holy fuck respect, but when you scrolled over that code in the beginning I was puking all over my keyboard.

6:06 Nailed it, 🤣

Thats awesome

New video less go!!

I graduated with you! Congrats.