Building Truco: A Software Engineer's Journey Creating His First Game Without LLMs
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Summary
A software engineer with 15 years of experience documents his journey of building and publishing his first game - a digital version of the Argentine card game Truco. He chose to build it without using large language models (LLMs) and shares his technical approach: learning minimal React for the UI, transpiling the Go backend to WASM using TinyGo to eliminate server costs, and using Git for hosting. The article serves as a personal development story and technical case study.
Key quotes
· 5 pulledAfter 15 years as a software engineer, I realized I had never actually built and published a game.
Since I grew up in 🇦🇷 Argentina playing card games with my friends, I figured I’d choose one of those.
On June 18th of 2024 I started building Truco in my free time.
As a longtime Go backend developer, the backend was obvious. The challenge was the UI and long-term hosting without a paid server.
Bit the bullet and learned the minimal required React for the UI.
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