Welcome to the game development community.
Glad to see you are getting back into the swing of things.
The fun part for me in making a game was working on the zones. Everything else has been an uphill battle in a hailstorm blindfolded or at least it feels that way.
As far as never publishing anything it’s quite easy to put something up on Itch. Perhaps this will be the project you put out into the world.
Looking forward to reading more about this and hope you have fun making it.
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The beautiful thing about the engine I use (BYOND) is that all the networking is built in so any game can be hosted and played by anyone with a BYOND account. The website is a full-on community where people can publish and share their games, tutorials, and resources.
I do hope to eventually get this worthy of players filling the world and encourage people to set up an account to play along.