Working with text-based games is fun and all, but designing your own game with a GUI is fantastic. When it finally all comes together, it's an uplifting feeling few can match. And though this last game was only a month-and-a-half project, I picked up my first competition win and some recognition. I've only been coding in Java for 5 months, and already I've got a few low-key titles under my belt. I can't wait for next semester, when a group of three or four of us will team up to write our own indie PC games from scratch.