Coding Just for Fun (opens in new tab)

Ah.. this reminds me of the couple weeks when I just finished my university and was a little bit lost about what I wanted to do with my life. I'd lost my motivation for programming, as years of university forced me to suppress my motivation due to it being too distracting for my studying. So... I just played video games in whatever free time I had after job.

One weekend I decided to make a simple rhythm game, just like "osu!". To not care about performance, to not care about code cleanliness. I called it "recreational programming", just like recreational drugs. It's just me and the problem at hand. After making a simple "Hello, World" application in Odin and Raylib I got to working. Used a music from another video game, mapped it in osu and then transcribed the rhythm into my game's hardcoded beatmap format. Then added some hitsounds I found on some site with free drum samples.

I published what I've done over those two days on github and you can look at some of my ugly "I don't care" code.

https://github.com/flysand7/rhythm-game/blob/main/main.odin

I gotta say though, this project might have saved me from another depressive episode. I don't think I will continue working on my game until I decide what I want this game to be beyond a broken taiko simulator. But regardless, I moved on and picked up some of my old projects I didn't have time to work on during university.