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Try making a game using an unconventional control scheme / the same control scheme as a game you like in Godot. 4.0 has some nice new tools to play with.
Like, super cat tales uses sprinting off ledges to jump instead of a normal space bar. Try doing something with that concept.

get into livecoding if you're a musician, get your musician friends into it if you aren't.

Make a stripped down C/ncurses version of any small browser game you like.

I would also suggest making a game, especially if you're a more creative/visual-type person. What I found really fun was downloading some free or low-price pixel art packs and just dropping them in Unity, having fun making scenes with them, and then coding a small game around them. It's good chill times.
https://itch.io/game-assets/free/tag-pixel-art

If you wanted to code something more standalone without needing a huge framework, maybe look into using the ChatGPT API for some project, it's very easy to use. An example could be like…. making a browser extension to highlight some text and having ChatGPT spit out a re-phrasing of that text. Or whatever you wanna do.

Write a program that randomly generates word soup to tell you what type of program to write.

I've considered reverse enginering something specific but no idea if it's beginner friendly.

>>18851
What language is good for live coding? I tried to compose using C Sound once years back and gave up pretty quickly because it was hard to think of music that way.

>>18854
>Write a program that randomly generates word soup to tell you what type of program to write
Those programs are really fun. Mine tells me to unlease a concurrent webasm runaway filesystem watchdog.
>What language is good for live coding?
There is extempore if you don't mind lisp.
https://extemporelang.github.io/

Find another hobby, and figure out how to program something for it

write and imageboard and drop it in the nu-imageboard thread

>>18854
>What language is good for live coding? I tried to compose using C Sound once years back and gave up pretty quickly because it was hard to think of music that way.
start out with using something like TidalCycles (Haskell EDSL), using your computer as a fancy sampler/sequencer. What it does is arrange patterns, and its fairly natural for rhythmic electronic music.

>>18848
You could try finding an open source project you like and contributing. Or maybe you could make a clone of something you like.