Add Game Making Post

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+categories = [
+  "games",
+  "softwware-development"	
+]
+date = 2024-02-17T01:16:57Z
+draft = false
+tags = [
+  "godot",
+  "pathfinding",
+  "game-development"
+]
+title = "Starting a new game for fun and education."
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+# I am starting a new project to keep my skills sharp.  
+I have been in a rut lately and I wanted to "sharpen my axe".  **Just** watching video tutorials or howto blogs
+may scratch that itch to learn, it doesn't actually do much for internalizing it.  I made a list of reason to 
+a game as the skeleton to hang this learning on.
+
+* I LIKE GAMES
+
+It isn't a long list but it is effective.  My though is that I need something to keep me engaged.  The project
+will actually be a series of games, the type of games I loving call shovelware.  aka It is not meant to be a 
+pull fledged game.  It is not meant to be fun for anyone else.  It is meant to keep me entertained while I learn.
+
+The first game will be a small farm simulator.  A very simple cross between The Sims and Stardew Valley.  There 
+will be a farm (grid of dirt squares).  You, as the player, will mark what needs to be done. e.g., Water the 
+crops, Plant seeds, Harvest the plants.  Then an NPC will do it.  The goal it learn A-Star pathfinding.
+
+This first game will use the Godot game engine and use the built in scripting language.