On the Heroes of Newerth forums, a player asked: "Could you show me a few games that you have developed? A link or two maybe? I'm not asking you this with any reference to this thread, I want to learn game development and so I want a starting point." Since I am one of the Heroes of Newerth programmers, others might be interested in how I got to this point. Here are the steps I followed. Anyone who knows me will tell you the same thing: I'm not exactly Einstein, if you know what I mean. :) If I can follow these steps, then so can you. Yes, you. The only reason you personally can't become a game developer right now, just like you dream about, is because you choose not to.

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