I was thinking about to early game modding. I made the most and best progress when I “just made stuff”. If in doubt, the second best thing to do would be to complete tutorials, e.g. coding tutorials, mapping tutorials, etc. The worst thing to do ever was to print/read manuals. There are two clear cases in my memory of doing this: Printing the DEU editor manual/guide (on my dot matrix printer) Print the Quake III Arena Shaders manual (in colour!). I never read them all the way through, and...
