Thanks. He's got a Youtube channel and an itch.io account. Wants to really get into the game development space. I'll show him your comment. :)
There was a local contest where I am and his entry for that was his latest game which has multiplayer support over the net. He set up a server on a VPS for this. https://waitinggodot.in/games/legends-of-crumbs.html
He might enjoy reading this… when I was 14-17 I was into 3D engines, reading Flipcode and Gamasutra, and was lucky enough to write a column for them: https://www.flipcode.com/archives/Theory_Practice-Issue_00_I...