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6170 Orbital Eunuchs Sniper games -1 coolness OMG this is one fun game 2002-07-28 23:17:57 0
6171 Rock Dodger games 6213 My game! I'm rating my game at three stars, because I can think of so many other things I want to add. <p> BTW you may have trouble adding comments to this game. I think there's a bug in happypenguin.org. Any program name which contains a space cannot be commented on. 2002-07-29 02:23:49 0
6172 Rock Dodger games 3 Re: My game! Hi pad,<br> Nice little game though my first match was over after about 30 seconds...<br> BTW: You and I did add comments, right? :) 2002-07-29 05:52:28 6171
6173 Rock Dodger games 6213 Re: My game! Looks like you can add comments with a single click, as long as you are replying to an existing comment! <p> ... or did you mean... did I comment my code? <p> Some of the comments in the code are in rastafarian, but the majority are in English. Sometimes I take a whole paragraph to explain one little game mechanic, and othertimes there is a string of fifty uninterrupted assignment statements ina row without a single comment. 2002-07-29 06:22:16 6172
6174 Rock Dodger games 6213 Re: My game! 30 seconds - that's about right for a first game. The game lots a lot of marks in the nostarch SDL competition because it was too hard, although the beauty of writing a game non-commercially is that you cantailor it to your own personal skill levels. I knew all the tricks, of course, and if I wanted any more, I could just write them in. <p> Another thing I learned when writing my own games is that they have to be carefully tuned. It's very easy to make a game impossible or boring, it's very hard to get the game to hit that spot which we call "fun". <p> On another note - I have received praise for writing a completely original game which does not copy any other commercial game currently extant. Would anyone say this is a problem with open-source games? Most of them <i>are</i> implementations or play-alikes of commercial games - could this be seen as a weakness? 2002-07-29 06:28:26 6172
6175 Cube games -1 Re: License? Something wrong with the old BSD license? Why does it have to be a "new" BSD license? And furthermore, I am puzzled, why not GPL or LGPL? What are the benefits in BSD license? 2002-07-29 09:59:33 5238
6176 Atlantik games 452 Almost there... I guess I'd love to be able to rate this game. However, there are no docs with the distribution of either atlantik or monopd. So I can't figure out how to start a game (starting monopd in one term and atlantik in another doesn't seem to allow the creation of a new game). But the screenshots look great! 2002-07-29 11:45:49 0
6177 Rock Dodger games 6138 Re: My game! IMHO there's nothing bad in cloning or taking suggestion from previous commercial games. A game is fun if it's fun, not if it's original. If it's also original, it's a great thing, but it's extremely difficult to achieve originality, expecially in arcade games. 2002-07-29 11:54:42 6174
6178 Wok games 6138 original and nice. only 3 stars because I don't feel itvery funny nor very playable. Graphics and sound are great and extremely original, though, as well as general game immersion. 2002-07-29 11:58:23 0
6179 Orbital Eunuchs Sniper games 21 Nice Well done. 2002-07-29 12:21:41 0