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I'm trying to make a pocket pet game, like the evolution of all the little calculator screened toys in the 90's and 00's. I don't want it to be the whale hunting, spyware riddled garbage that most phone games are. I'd rather like to release it on F-Droid instead of Google if I release it at all. I have all of it worked out on paper, from the random tables to the creature stats, to the combat mechanics, you can play it as a pen and paper if you wanted to. Problem is, I'm a pen and paper guy, and I'm having an awful time trying to learn anything about code. Where do I go to get help with this?

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[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 3 points 15 hours ago (4 children)

I would instantly distrust and never go near your app. I am a software engineer with more than two decades of IT experience.

[–] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

Exactly, and for all we know this could be your dream app as well and you'll never experience it because my wacky brain can't seen to retain anything that can't be copy/paste into a text doc.

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 5 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

because my wacky brain can't seen to retain anything that can't be copy/paste into a text doc.

That is not what I said. Vibe coding and using AIs tends to have security issues and not produce the best code.

If you want a professional developer to work on it, you need to put your sales hat on and sell them on the idea (or come up with enough cash to pay outright for someone to do it). It sounds like, based on your response to another poster, you do have a lot of the mechanics, UI/UX design, etc. so you should have a good point from which to pitch.

[–] Yermaw@lemm.ee 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

That's what he's trying to do, just doesn't know where to go for that.

Now that I'm thinking about it I'm surprised there isn't a dragons den type thing for software development.

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 3 points 12 hours ago

Yes. I don't know where to go either. I was purely giving my opinion on the ai vibe-coding thing.