I guess I’m a videogame designer now, too

By JimmiWazEre Opinionated tabletop gaming chap TL;DR:A backend database developer takes a work Python course, then runs with it — building two free games from scratch: Meteor Blast (a top-down shooter with custom pixel art and powerups) and P0N6 FL1P! (a cooperative Pong twist where you work with the AI to keep a rally going). Both are available on GitHub.IntroductionHey folks, how’re you doing? I’m gonna go right on and pretend you answered: “Good thanks”, great to hear it. Bit of an unusual one for you today: So, I’m a backend database developer by trade, right? And if you know anything about the industry, you’ll know it’s moving in the direction of cloud computing and PySpark.Which is all well and good, but I found myself with a rapidly aging skillset - cranking out SQL scripts triggered by BASH. So when the opportunity came up at work to do a week long crash course in Python - I thought: “yeah why not, sounds good”.I made a thing!After I finished the Python course I wanted to…