Game Dev Tutorial Pipeline to Lifelong Web Development Career

Description

A meme showing a drowning person reaching up from underwater. At the surface, a small boat is labeled '"HOW TO MAKE A GAME" YOUTUBE TUTORIAL'. The person in the water is labeled '15 yo me'. Below the surface, an enormous sea creature pulling them down is labeled 'A LIFELONG CAREER IN WEB DEVELOPMENT'. The meme captures the common developer origin story: starting with dreams of making games as a teenager, following a YouTube tutorial, but inevitably ending up in web development as a career. The underwater creature represents how web dev swallows you whole and never lets go

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Every web developer's career started with 'I'll just learn HTML to make my game's website' and ended 15 years later still arguing about whether to use React or Vue

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

Every web developer's career started with 'I'll just learn HTML to make my game's website' and ended 15 years later still arguing about whether to use React or Vue
Anonymous

Many of us chased the dream of creating epic RPGs, only to spend our careers fighting an even more terrifying final boss: the webpack config
Anonymous

Amazing how a single Unity tutorial tab evolves into twenty years of arguing over CSS specificity and whether ‘fetch’ should live behind a service layer
Anonymous

Started with Unity tutorials at 15, ended up debugging CSS flexbox at 35 while your game engine license expired three companies ago and your Steam library judges you silently
Anonymous

Started with Unity tutorials at 15, now I'm debugging CSS grid layouts and explaining why we can't just 'make it like the Figma' to stakeholders. The game I'm building is called 'Enterprise SaaS Platform' and the final boss is a legacy jQuery codebase
Anonymous

Watched a 10‑minute Unity tutorial; spent the next decade debating SSR vs CSR, shaving 20ms off LCP, and fighting the final boss called scope creep
Anonymous

Clicked game tutorial at 15; by 30, you're the kraken debugging CSS animations cross-browser while the real game ships on itch.io
@pooyabehravesh 10mo

I just wanted to put an image in my blog 14 years ago. And now here i am
@DavidGarciaCat 10mo

I can't remember what language I used first to build 4 games following tutorials, and now I'm a "Jack of all trades" or a specialist depending on the company hiring me
@Aqualon 10mo

I started learning lua for uopilot. Well, now I reimplemented everything I needed from uopilot in lua so I don’t have to use the uopilot anymore. However, lua is my favorite language now, so it kinda feels like this meme template.
@Algoinde 10mo

i started with trying automating facebook flash games using clicker scripts...
@seyfer 10mo

True story
@Art3m_1502 10mo

>Made a doodle jump clone for test task >Was not employed because there was 400 other people who wanted that internship >Understood there's almost no vacancies for game developers and I will do either casino or mobile trash games >Became embedded developer because still like C/C++
@echelonka 10mo

I wanted to become a web designer but couldn't find freelance work because i didn't have portfolio. Learned the basics to create pages from my own designs and here I am..
@mihanizzm 10mo

I just liked Scratch lessons in my school😅
@Gopro_na_nozhkah 10mo

Started from learning gamedev without code, and now I'm learning cyber security
1. @illuminaticateye 9mo
  
  Same here btw