It would take me 20 years to make Pong

I had several wrong beliefs before my first game, and this video is about two of them: I must know everything, and I must be a math wizard. With my old plan, it would take me twenty years to finish a simple Pong game. It is also about the real Pong of 1972, Beethoven's first printed piece, a saying about comparison, and the math I still study, because I love it. 0:00 Two wrong beliefs 0:45 Placeholder, the eternal prototype 1:01 Sponsored by me 1:22 I must know everything 2:10 How big that stack is 3:13 I must be a math wizard 4:29 Twenty years 6:15 Beethoven first 7:05 The thief of joy 7:34 What I kept 8:41 Back to Pong Sources and further reading Game Engine Architecture Jason Gregory, Game Engine Architecture, the book's own site: https://www.gameenginebook.com/ Handmade Hero Casey Muratori, Handmade Hero, the project page on the Handmade Network (the series began on 17 November 2014): https://hero.handmade.network/ Casey Muratori, Handmade Hero, the episode guide, Day 001 to Day 667: https://guide.handmadehero.org/ Molly Rocket, Casey Muratori's studio, its Handmade Hero page (the old address handmadehero.org now leads here): https://mollyrocket.com/handmade Godot Godot Engine, its licence page (the MIT licence): https://godotengine.org/license/ Khan Academy Khan Academy, its "About us" page: https://www.khanacademy.org/about Pong Computer History Museum, "Pong", in its online exhibition Revolution: https://www.computerhistory.org/revol... Tekla S. Perry, "The Lies that Powered the Invention of Pong", IEEE Spectrum, 1982 (first printed as "Pong: an exercise that started an industry"): https://spectrum.ieee.org/pong Tom Maxwell, "How Atari's Pong Got Made", AARP, 2021: https://www.aarp.org/events-history/a... Gavin Clarke, "Atari Pong at 40: Alcorn talks plastics, pirates and square balls", The Register, 2012: https://www.theregister.com/2012/03/0... Beethoven Beethoven-Haus Bonn, Nine Variations on a March, WoO 63, his first published work, in its digital archive: https://www.beethoven.de/en/work/view... Beethoven-Haus Bonn, "Beethoven: A Life in Pictures" (the first print, and the concert of April 1800 with the First Symphony): https://internet.beethoven.de/biograp... The Pong at the end of the video is moved by my own old physics study notes, with two bugs in their math fixed. The sponsor of this video (me) I made my first game, and it is called Wren Falls. It is a first-person detective horror game set in October 1994. It comes out on Steam at the end of October 2026. Free demo (Windows, about 45 minutes) on the Steam page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/53... Also on itch.io: https://boring-gamedev.itch.io/wren-f... Footage Handmade Hero by Casey Muratori (Molly Rocket): the episode guide, https://guide.handmadehero.org/, and a few seconds of Day 028, "Drawing a Tile Map", recorded from my screen. The Godot website, https://godotengine.org/, recorded from my screen. The picture behind its title is from the game Buckshot Roulette by Mike Klubnika. Godot Engine logo by Andrea Calabró, licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/.... Cropped from my screen recordings. Game Engine Architecture by Jason Gregory (CRC Press): my own copies. Music: an original piece made for this video. Thank you for watching. If I got something wrong, please tell me in the comments. :DDDDDDDDDDD