Become a game coder (part 5/5)

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Jeremy Ford - 18 June 2009 - 10:22am

There are lots of things you could be doing while waiting for Diablo 3 to be released, but most of them are rubbish. Watching TV is for lackadaisical layabouts. Going shopping with your significant other usually results in you being dragged unwillingly out of every games shop on the high street. In fact, it’s easy to get so bored that you’re considering signing up to Twitter to see if you can organise a flash mob at your house just so you can meet some new people.

Stop! Before you type ‘twitter.com’ into your web browser, may I remind you that your computer is capable of doing so much more than providing you with reams of angst-ridden moaning from internet nobodies? Yes, that’s right: a great way to fill up your time and have fun is to open the door to the dark cesspit of your soul and vent your strangely evil ideas into your own computer programs.

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