I’ve been working with computer code–in one form or another–since typing BASIC commands to run games on my Commodore 64 back in the late 1980s. In elementary school, my friend Kyle and I would spend Saturday afternoons copying programs into QBasic from the back pages of 3-2-1 Contact magazine before moving on to designing and programming our own Zork-style text adventure games. In middle and high school, I moved into HTML and Flash, trying my hand at online interactivity. Eventually, I gave up on Windows and moved into the wonderful world of Linux, Bash, and Python.
Bringing it full circle, I’ve been taking a few coding boot camps, relearning the skills I haven’t used in earnest for years. I enjoy making things, and I miss building interactive things. So, for the first time in nearly two decades, I’ve built a game from scratch. It’s JavaScript, and it’s fairly simple, but it’s been a great exercise. Play it, have fun with it, and let me know what you think!
