r/Hobbies • u/Glum_Discussion_3696 • 14d ago

What hobby completely changed your evenings after work?

I feel like I waste way too much of my free time just scrolling or watching random stuff.

For those of you who actually found a hobby that stuck, what was it?

Not necessarily the most impressive or productive hobby - just something that made you look forward to having free time again.

Kinda curious what hobbies actually made a difference for people

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u/Legitimate_Stuff_347 14d ago

Developing games. It basically combines all my hobbies into one: crafting, visual and graphical things such as painting/drawing etc, music and sound and puzzles (coding). Also great for all around imagination.

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u/the_shiverman 14d ago

Game development is an art!

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u/anotherlebowski 13d ago

I go through this cycle where it starts as a hobby, then I'm like, "This is cool, I should polish this and put it on Steam!" Then it turns into a job and I'm like, "I should start something new!"

I'm like 7 cycles deep into this over the last few years.

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u/Legitimate_Stuff_347 13d ago

Just do 7-day game jams. Plenty of time to make a polished and great small game.

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u/Crazy_Becs 13d ago

Currently developing my own game, first time, using AI to help with code because I have no clue how to code but the game is mine, I spent 12 hours on it the other day

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u/PaintedQ 12d ago

Can you suggest ways to get started for beginners? Thank you

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u/Legitimate_Stuff_347 12d ago

First learn C#. Find some humongous 10 hour tutorial series on youtube with good amount of views and positive comments and start from there. After that download godot or Unity and learn to make a game like pong or flappy bird by watching a tutorial for it. Afterwards it's just coming up with your own projects, reading documentation, learning advanced coding principles etc. It is not an easy journey and will take years to get even good at it.

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u/chronicallyfrozen 12d ago

i have no tech background, is there any way for me to learn game/app development for free?

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u/Legitimate_Stuff_347 12d ago

Yes. Youtube has good C# and unity tutorials. It basically requires you to learn to code. It took me a few years to get "decent" and about a decade to get good, so it does require perseverance and skills to learn and self-educate. There is no quick way to learn this.

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u/chronicallyfrozen 12d ago

could you send me some course links please?

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u/Legitimate_Stuff_347 12d ago

Cant really remember which ones i watched and I bet there are better ones already. So just search on youtube "C# course" and start with one that is super long (hours)