You know....I shouldn't really care about the voting system here on NG....or anywhere for that matter. I set out to teach myself to program to make games because I have a passion for them. While I do make games so that I can bring entertainment to others, I also make them for myself because I love what I do.

That being said.... I just played a game here on NG. It was made by some 15-year old boy (good for him though - wish I started that young). It was a pong game. A frickin' PONG game. He said it was his first game made learning AS3. Which makes sense that it was a pong game as the internet is littered with hundreds of tutorials on how to make a pong game. But here this kid makes a pong game and post it to NG and scores 2.96. I taught myself AS3 for months before I tackled my first game which also took about another 2 months to make as I struggled to understand the code. My game scored 2.75... First image that crossed my mind was this:

Now I'm not actually going to give up. If I was I would have done that long ago due to the struggles of trying to wrap my head around OOP. Maybe this just bothered me because literally 10 minutes before this happened I had some anxiety thinking about all I want to accomplish as a game developer - fear that I may never make a decent game. Then this happens and I'm just flabbergasted. I know I shouldn't give a rats ass about a score - especially from an audience where the majority has no idea what it takes to make a game - but tonight it just bothers me some.

Oh well. Back to working on my next game.