Right off, this has been inspired by a post Rez made in the "Look Here" thread. Basically, Rez commented that he had the source code to an old Tetris clone somewhere, and I have a similar story of my own.
My first "real" game was something that I wrote with my best friend Mark, which we titled "Ballistic". Inspired by a game that we played in 8th grade. It was a side-view tank shooter, where you entered the angle and power of your tank shell in attempts to hit the other player's tank. It supported 2-4 players, had a screen shake on each shell detonation, deformable terrain, randomly generated levels, and wind.
Basically, since I've been visting home for the summer, I have had time to hang out with Mark (he still lives in my hometown). We were chatting about how it would be funny to find the game again and cry over how bad the source is and reminisce. Long story short, I was rummaging around in one of his many CD cases and found a pocket packed full of floppies. At the bottom of these was a floppy disk penned with the title "Ballistic". On it was the source code.
I have yet to find a zip of the graphics library that we used and sadly do not yet have a working binary, but I can post the source (it's short) if anyone wants to cry with me, haha. I'm still trying to see if I can get a copy of the library.
So how many of you have your "first" game or at least one you look on with loving memory?
My first "real" game was something that I wrote with my best friend Mark, which we titled "Ballistic". Inspired by a game that we played in 8th grade. It was a side-view tank shooter, where you entered the angle and power of your tank shell in attempts to hit the other player's tank. It supported 2-4 players, had a screen shake on each shell detonation, deformable terrain, randomly generated levels, and wind.
Basically, since I've been visting home for the summer, I have had time to hang out with Mark (he still lives in my hometown). We were chatting about how it would be funny to find the game again and cry over how bad the source is and reminisce. Long story short, I was rummaging around in one of his many CD cases and found a pocket packed full of floppies. At the bottom of these was a floppy disk penned with the title "Ballistic". On it was the source code.
I have yet to find a zip of the graphics library that we used and sadly do not yet have a working binary, but I can post the source (it's short) if anyone wants to cry with me, haha. I'm still trying to see if I can get a copy of the library.
So how many of you have your "first" game or at least one you look on with loving memory?
Feel you safe and secure in the protection of your pants . . . but one day, one day there shall be a No Pants Day and that shall be the harbinger of your undoing . . .