How to make a computer game
It made me
XD 
"Debugging was sheer hell, but success was amazingly sweet."
How I did it: I took a java programming class, and for my final project, I decided to write a fairly complicated Single User Dungeon. It was sheer hell. Also, I started overthinking everything and adding all sorts of fancy pointless details. In retrospect, I probably should have finished the basic framework before adding fancy narration and things like that. In the end, I wound up doing a basic version of Minesweeper, which was awesome because it actually worked. Programming Minesweeper actually only took me a week, because that was all the time I had left in the end. >.>
Lessons & tips: Sort out the basic framework first! Fancy things can go in a text file and then you can add them on after the basic game works.
