It has been a little over a week since I started building my very first game.
95% of the time, I have no idea what I'm doing but I am starting to get the hang of navigating around Unity. I would take that as progress. I also don't feel too bad about mostly copy-pasting scripts to get the functionality that I want either. When I first started programming, I was doing the exact same thing. Each time I understood a little bit, learned something new or got new questions. In a way, it feels like I'm starting all over again and it's got me pretty excited. I haven't been super excited with programming in a while.
I don't know how much I'll be able to work on the game once the holidays are over, but I'm dedicated to finishing it this year. Since it's supposed to be a short one, it should be possible right??