This is a great post, thank you for writing it. I got into programming 20 years ago because I wanted to make games, and I spent my teenage years in the 2000s building web games. As a high school project I spent a year building a turn-based strategy web game (https://twitter.com/cpojer/status/1460221157634830337).

I have recently gotten back into it to explore things I never got a chance to do before like building an AI and fog-of-war. Currently the game is inspired by Advance Wars, and you can see me play against my AI here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bGeEeti22bM

I’m tweeting about the technical details and progress on Twitter:

* Basic explanation and code examples: https://twitter.com/cpojer/status/1460221157634830337

* Map Editor: https://twitter.com/cpojer/status/1488510688389566464

* Fog of War: https://twitter.com/cpojer/status/1547967785015189504

* Testing Infrastructure: https://twitter.com/cpojer/status/1538299796334686208

* Random Map Generator: https://twitter.com/cpojer/status/1537444893580136454

I’m currently working on the game design to make it “inspired by Advance Wars” instead of just a clone.