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One day I'll port it from the C64.
(I'd provide a link, but game sites with screenshots of the cover package are blocked here at work.)
Actually, any time I create some weird tech, like HOPE or FlowSharpCode, I vet the concept by implementing Hunt the Wumpus. I knew Gregory Yob personally, he was very much a mentor/father figure for me when I was 18.
Marc
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..apples falling. One of the tutorials to learn the language was a game, and it was kind of fun to do.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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I would sell an arm and a leg to work for Bethesda, Bioware, Eidos/SquareEnix or CD Project RED. But I'd forgo the writing part and concentrate on the extensive beta testing and playtesting. 
DURA LEX, SED LEX
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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Spending 8 hours a day finding holes in walls is not fun at all.
I'd rather be phishing!
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8? Make it 10 or 12. And AFAIR I do that since the days of Wolfenstein 3D and Doom for free.
AARDWOLF.
DURA LEX, SED LEX
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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den2k88 wrote: AARDWOLF.
I never did ring that number - it was in the states and would have cost me a fortune! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Same here and no matter how many times I play Wolf3D I always look for that sign, even if it's hell.
DURA LEX, SED LEX
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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The first thing I ever wrote was a version of Breakout for my 16k Speccy. Not done any since and highly unlikely to ever do so again - games need to be a a lot more visually sophisticated these days and I'm rubbish at that sort of thing.
Slogans aren't solutions.
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You don't have to everything all by yourself. You are probably better at the artwork then the artists at writing code. 
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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They'd have to be pretty darned awful at writing code to be worse than I am at graphic stuff!
Slogans aren't solutions.
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For my 3D engine I first used brick shaped placeholders with textures that labeled them as spaceships or whatever they represented.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Yes, I think my route would have to be lots of little blobs with tool-tips reading along the lines of "Super-shiny spaceship (impressive!)" and "Very realistic-looking extra-terrestrial type with massive teeth (scary!)"
I'm not sure that it would enhance the UX for the general public but at least I'd have some idea of what was going on on-screen.
Slogans aren't solutions.
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They are placeholders, nothing more. Let the artist then do his job and then throw them away. Meanwhile you can go on writing and testing your code.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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The first program I ever got paid for was a version of Frogger coded on a 16K Spectrum, and published in Your Computer for the grand sum of £100. I was 14 at the time, and to my tiny mind that was a fortune. Bear in mind, that was 1983-4, where £100 went considerably further than today.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I started work in '83 and I earned about £60 a week, so yes, £100 was a nice little pile in those days - had I realised how much they paid, I'd have submitted mine.
And it would have looked bigger in pound notes, too - I always felt like I had more money when we had those.
Slogans aren't solutions.
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Me too. I had 2 games published "in the last millenium"  on the Dragon computer. All assembler of course and I guess back then I was pretty happy with them. Compared with the sophistication of some of todays game graphics then they need to stay as history, although it was a lot of fun. As I am really crap at playing computer games I used to have to have special, internal only versions which allowed me to complete them.
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Private Dobbs wrote: As I am really crap at playing computer games I used to have to have special, internal only versions which allowed me to complete them.
Like it! I think that's the only way that I could ever win at most games, too.
Slogans aren't solutions.
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PeejayAdams wrote: games need to be a a lot more visually sophisticated these days
Not necessarily.
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True enough. Console games leave me cold but I can easily lose myself in something rather basic - give me 2048 over Call of Duty any day of the week.
Slogans aren't solutions.
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I cannot anymore. Totally fell for huge open world RPGs... can't even play Raptor or Wolfenstein 3D satisfyingly.
CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"Go ahead, make my day"
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That was my beginning with the C64... and it seems that by second girl interested in it, so I may get back to help her out...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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At the moment I'm developing something in the finance field but got the idea from a game. It's a little C# pet project I'm busy with at home. I don't want to give my idea away here so I'm not going to elaborate, but finding C# quite fun... liking it more than Java.
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I just don't have the right imagination to design a good game.
And the world doesn't need another Solitaire or Flappy Bird simulation...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Thinking to learn to create mobile games big money! Time to learn!!!
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