This is actually what made me start my programming journey. Made small games using PowerPoint until I was starting to make an level editor on a 12x12 grid. My father thankfully stopped me pretty early on and showed me Game Maker 7. Not sure for how long i would have continued.

[–] gerryflap@feddit.nl 11 points 17 hours ago

Are you me lol? I did exactly the same, and at some point I started computing how many slides I had to make to make anything larger and I pivoted. My dad didn't know this stuff but I also ended up at gamemaker

[–] tinkermeister@lemm.ee 3 points 14 hours ago

I suddenly feel in good company. I got my start doing crazy things with PowerPoint and Excel because it was what I knew.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 5 points 16 hours ago

PowerPoint is actually turning complete so... https://youtu.be/uNjxe8ShM-8

[–] Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

hey, there is an inherent fun in maing games/programs using things that were never meant to.

once i did a CPU/RAM emulator using excel, so you could see every bit.

it was fun to make loops, and programs

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

This is how I got into game development myself. I used to use Javascript to make dumb little interactive games in the early 2000s before it was ever meant to do such things, emulating what is now modern day HTML5 canvas and such

[–] Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

bes way to learn is by doing what you're not supposed to

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

True enough! Mistakes are the best teacher. That said, I'm still making games in Javascript to this day, so I guess you can say I haven't learned enough lol.

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 3 points 17 hours ago

I coded basic games in PowerPoint using animations plus VBA. Not good.