Journey To Becoming A Game Developer

Its been rough lately. The past two days I've been learning how to input “powerups” into my game. There is some much that goes into creating video games I'm thrown aback. In my space shooter (which is 2D mind you) my simple functions like creating a player, creating an enemy, shooting a laser, having all of them able to collide, EVEN moving all have different functions. Now I'm at a stage of powerups and even though it is hard and even at times difficult for me to understand, I got to say I'm having fun. To be able to get the code correct and then being able to see that function work properly…