How many of you have tried writing your own games ?

How many of you have tried writing a game yourself ? Any success stories ? DD.

I wrote up a Star Trek game in BASIC 15 years ago. Worked pretty well; wish I kept the source code for it.

I have...well, very little. I extracted the gfx from Age of Empires, then I wrote a primitive game. It used DirectDraw to create the background, but it did look kinda stupid because it was tiled. http://discussions.hardwarecentral.com/smile.gif You could create villagers and move them, but the animations weren't very streamlined. That is as far as I got. http://discussions.hardwarecentral.com/wink.gif

I coded a tetris game in c++, since it took so long though I've hardly had the patience to do any more... http://discussions.hardwarecentral.com/frown.gif

I also coded a game in BASIC. It was one where you choose which direction to go, pick up a weapon, and see if you take any damage or your opponent does. The one who loses all of their power first is the loser...simple as that.

Oh yes, I did. In QBasic. It was supposed to be something like airlift, but i never got it working right. http://discussions.hardwarecentral.com/biggrin.gif

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human was the music
natural was the static.....

I made this 3d simulation thing in c++. i managed to get 2 3d cubes sitting next to each other. GOD it took a long time. I had some successs in basic with a text rpg.

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My other OS is a Linux

I wrote a Nibbles in C (remember that game in Basic??), that was my project of my programming 1 class.

I remember that was a real pain, nowdays i can write again a game like that in two days...or less, it took me about two weeks in that time, around 1000 lines of code, and the code is really a sh!t, fortunetly, now i don't write code like that...

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I programmed games using Basic ROM on an Atari 1200xl. It had 128KB of memory. I could load programs from my cassette tapes. I programmed Nuclear War in the 80's. Basically, you I used the almanac to program population and military strength. You could then use spies, diplomacy, embargoes, conventional or nuclear might to take out other countries. I did this in block graphics, but it looked good. One rule stated that if you NUKED a country, that all of the neighbors would automattically ally to one of the other players (up to 8 human players). I lost the program when my tape got ate. I also made Tarot and Alien Attack on ROM Basic.