HelloWorld.GoodBye()
“Hello World.” — the very first line of code I ever wrote.
“GoodBye()” — the function I silently called when the system had finally worn me down.
👋 Who am I?
I’m a programmer.
And right now, I’m also a solo indie game developer.
This game is made by just one person — me.
Design, code, art, writing — everything built slowly in quiet hours fueled by frustration, burnout, and a tiny spark of something I thought I had lost.
I used to love writing code.
But somewhere along the way, I stopped writing for myself.
Now it’s for Jira, for managers, for interviewers, for KPI dashboards, for whatever counts as “professional growth.”
But I’ve realized something:
It’s not that I stopped loving programming.
It’s just been so long since I wrote anything for myself.
💬 Why make this game?
Because there are so many things I couldn’t say out loud.
“I’m trying my best, but I’m tired.”
“I don’t want to study for another interview.”
“My code is not for points or compliments in a PR comment — it’s because I used to believe code was a language of creation.”
This isn’t a story about success.
It’s a story about moving from Hello to GoodBye().
Not a failure — but an attempt to recover.
🎮 So what is this game?
It’s a pixel-art action platformer. It has a story.
The protagonist is a programmer.
That might be me. It might be you.
It’s not about saving the world. There’s no epic destiny.
It’s just someone breaking down inside a system,
and trying to find their way back to being human.
Or more precisely:
It’s a single function I wrote for myself —
one that never returns.
🛠 Current status
The game is still in development.
I’m working on the demo now.
There’s no release date. No trailer. No hype.
But I’ll keep updating this blog — with progress, breakdowns, and maybe a few breakthroughs.
Slowly, and stubbornly, I keep going.
If you’ve ever felt like you weren’t a person anymore —
just a process, a resource, a task in someone else’s system —
Then maybe this game is for you.
HelloWorld.GoodBye()
It’s not a project. It’s a message.
A quiet GoodBye() that never needs to explain itself.
Maybe it’s for you.
Or maybe it’s for the version of me that’s still trapped in that system.
“I understand.”
“You’re not broken.”
“You’re still here.”