So... is there any one else that still has their very first playable game that they'd like to submit? Go right on ahead then! ^^ Also, please list the game title, the date (or at least the year) that you finished it, 2D or 3D, the genre, and what it was designed with.

One more thing, to keep this talkative and fun, let's try this; before posting your game try to make a comment on another game that's already been posted, I'll do that as well before posting again. (You don't have to but please do if possible ^^)

You can download mines here:
Download: http://www.3rddaystudios.com/downloads/Fantasyone.zip
Title: Fantasy One
Date completed: Sep 10, 2001 (yeah, I know)
Genre: 2D RPG
Programming tools: VB6, DX7

This one isn't a Christian\Inspired game or anything... I think that I really liked FF7 while making this game.

God Bless!

EDIT:
Almost forgot, for my game you have to extract the files to a directory where there aren't any spaces in the directory name, otherwise you won't hear any sound... lol

Controls:
Insert - Start\Select
Delete - Back
Home - Main Menu
Cursor Keys - Movement

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We better trash our idols if we want to be
In the army of the Lord
And the greatest idol is you and me,
We better get on the threshing floor

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... you never forget your first time, lol ...

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"After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless.'' -- Tao of Programming Book 2

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The time for speaking comes rarely, the time for being never departs.
George Macdonald

My first game was MasterMind written in BASIC on some Sharp, T/I or Casio calculator (with BASIC) back in the very late 70's or perhaps early 80's. It had an LCD allowing you to see one line of code at a time. Sorry, I don't have the code or calculator anymore.

It used a random number generator to create the sequence of digits. Then had an INPUT statement where the user typed in their guess. I don't remember how it did the actual comparison. Does BASIC have arrays? Perhaps I used an array to hold each digit. And it looped for however many guesses you get for MasterMind.

For those who don't know, MasterMind is a logic/puzzle game with colored pegs. One person creates the pattern and the other person guesses. More colored pegs are then placed down to represent whether the guess has valid/invalid pegs.

anyhow, I'll see if I can bump the game up here for download. probably will have to run it out of a dos prompt in order to read the last lines. (no, I'm not gonna take the time fix the code.. well, maybe I will. maybe I won't.)

so, once I get on my own comp (work comp now) I'm gonna try out Brandon's game and I'll see if I can get mine up.

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i don't think i still have the code for it it was a VB6 turn-based strategy game with robots. got me a 100% final grade in highschool

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That sounds like it was a fun project there! Yeah.. I've lost like 10 or so games that I made before the one above... but.. those weren't really playable to anyone but me anyways, haha.

And yep, Bible Dave definitely counts!

SSquared, yeah I remember mastermind... I always used to play it in school o.O Hmm... the oldest version of BASIC that I've ever used was GWBASIC.

Looking forward to seeing it ArchAngel!

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Text adventure on Tandy Coco

Next game

Battle suits on the C64

First on the PC
Pyrism http://www.pyrism.twobrotherssoftware.com/

IN between several ideas that never went anywhere - or far at least

Bible Dave rox. TwoBro, you're old school.

First game: Eternal War: Shadows of Light
Platform: PC
Released: December 11th, 2002
Genre: 3D FPS
Download: Demo

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Six Pence Puzzle Game

http://sixpence.twobrotherssoftware.com

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Cool thread.
TwoBro, you're old school.
2007).]

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Not sure how to take that - except you are right.

First PC elfII by neutronics came with 1/2 K ram

had it expanded to 1k and a sound chip

Wrote an intrpreted lanuague to manipulate the sound chip.

1982

(actually I did a lot of things I now read about and say - oh that is what they call that)

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Joh 17:26 And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.

[VoHW] (Help needed) [Blog] - Truedisciple (mp3)

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interpreted language to manipulate the sound chip...does that just mean you made a quick & dirty (or slow & dirty) scripting language that you parse at runtime?

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The machine was programmed in hex - basically I created a look up table for commands (look up tokens in basic) and between that space and the rest of the 1/2 K wrote commands did count based delays (the machine ran at 1 mhz)

The intrepeted language was entered in hex code.

You had delays loops, 14 16 bit variables , if thens, for next loops

but it was all keyed in 2 digit hex numbers

actaully it was fairly quick. There was no OS that it ran upon - you flipped a toggle on the board and then entered addresses and values for that address manually.

Out put was a 2 digit hex (like on a calculator) - and a single LED

I'm sure I have it somewhere in my floppy disk collection. Will look for it this weekend

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"Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer!" -Adolf Hitler
"I believe in freedom... not freedom like America, freedom like a shopping cart"

http://www.christiancoders.com/cgi-bin/sc/showcase_showentry.pl?id=lava060920 06141200&comments=no

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"Frogs and Fauns! The tournament!" - Professor Winneynoodle/HanClinto

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Thought travels much faster than sound, it is better to think something twice, and say it once, than to think something once, and have to say it twice.
"Frogs and Fauns! The tournament!" - Professor Winneynoodle/HanClinto

Hopefully it'll be my first "good" game, and I'll show you guys. I don't work on many games, tending to focus on other projects.

I'm learning C++, Perl, and now python. Python is the only one I can foresee making a graphical game with any time soon. Perl, obviously not. C++, a while to go.

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"The CIA must operate within the law.." - Former President Jimmy Carter, trying to solve an old problem.

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http://savefile.com . there ya go.

hey crazy, where'd you learn pygame at?

do you have a book or what?

because I'm looking to start learning Pygame but I can't find a good tutorial.

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"The CIA must operate within the law.." - Former President Jimmy Carter, trying to solve an old problem. ;)

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"Frogs and Fauns! The tournament!" - Professor Winneynoodle/HanClinto

A lot of those games sound pretty sweet for first games... especially yours mack hehe

my first playable 2D game (I did go through a lot of text adventure projects in both C and Pascal but never finished them) was a game called 'LastAid'... it is a 2D side scroller written in Pascal with Assembly for graphics and input. It has basic sprite animation through cycling through multidimensional array (3d array actually)... this would have been about 4 years ago I think...

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cuz I found a few good (i hope) books on amazon.com anyways.

planning on buying at least one.

=D

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HANDLEBAR MCKINLEY

In glorious grayscale CGA with PC Speaker sound!

Not much of a story, push the steel balls in to the holes to open the exit and progress to the next level. I think its a pretty fun game! I'd be interested to know what you think.

INSTALLATION:
Unzip the contents to a folder and double-click DOSBox.exe

GAME PLAY:
Keys
Arrows move Handlebar
+ increase speed of the game
- decrease speed of the game
ESC Quit or retry a level

http://www.sam-n-rachel.com/files/handlebar.zip

Enjoy!

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i have a tandy still!! and a c64!!

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I'm about to start work on a game, using python with the pygame lib.

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hey crazy, where'd you learn pygame at?

do you have a book or what?

because I'm looking to start learning Pygame but I can't find a good tutorial.

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You also want to read the newbie guide, (http://www.pygame.org/docs/tut/newbieguide.html), the Chimp tutorial (http://www.pygame.org/docs/tut/chimp/ChimpLineByLine.html), and one or two other Tutorials @ http://www.pygame.org/docs/ .

Also, take a look at the cookbook @ http://www.pygame.org/wiki/CookBookand the Watermelons game (which I used as reference when I made my CCN competition game) @ http://www.pygame.org/projects/20/225/.

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"After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless.'' -- Tao of Programming Book 2

I've just played LAVA's so far; that's pretty good for a first dude. does he actually shrink the higher (deeper into the screen) you go? I remember years back thinking of using an idea like that for a DBZ game... lol There's nothing quite like a first game ^^ also, I noticed when walking over the hill that he went behind it.. sigh, if I had only known of gamemaker those many years ago, I'd have used it instead of VB6 and DX7.

samw3, yep, I coded the battle system... it's all in VB6. Yeah, the first boss is a little tough if you don't know how to fight him exactly.. basically just have Joe do cure's, and have Jacks use the PM's and normal attacks (sheesh.. I remember that after all these years O.o) I could upload the VB6 code for it if anyone is at all interested... Yeah I know what you mean, it was so hard to get something to show on the screen... so I just grabbed microsoft sprite demo's using VB6 and DX7 and designed games around their graphics code. lol sigh.. a lazy one I was..

I'll have to give your game a go when I get home! ^^

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And the greatest idol is you and me,
We better get on the threshing floor

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I'd like to get a C64. It was like the iPod (popularity-wise) of computers back in it's day wasn't it?

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Hmmm, the C64 was extremely popular, but I don't recall it being like the iPod. Computers, at that time, were by no means a "MUST have item". What made the C64 popular was its low price. I think it eventually came down to $300. Programming-wise, it was rather easy to create and use sprites. It also contained a 3-voice, pretty sweet, synthesizer. This led to more complicated musical scores and multiple sounds at once, in addition to synthesized speech. PCs and Apple just had simple bloops and bleeps coming out of their tiny speaker.

Since I was a musician and loved synthesizers, this was SUCH an amazing sound chip at the time. I was able to create my own sounds and write music, which is probably where I spent most of my programming time with the C64.

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We better trash our idols if we want to be
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And the greatest idol is you and me,
We better get on the threshing floor

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I've just played LAVA's so far; that's pretty good for a first dude. does he actually shrink the higher (deeper into the screen) you go? I remember years back thinking of using an idea like that for a DBZ game... lol There's nothing quite like a first game ^^ also, I noticed when walking over the hill that he went behind it.. sigh, if I had only known of gamemaker those many years ago, I'd have used it instead of VB6 and DX7.

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Thanks Brandon!

Yeah, Adventure Game Studio has a feature to resize. It was a really great program, I even made a first person adventure demo with it. I swtiched from it to Blitz and made some games in Game Maker because it was when I was first getting ideas for the Joe game, and so to make a platformer it needed some extra scripting knowledge I didn't know at that time.

But I had alot of fun with it. I think it would be cool to go back and give it a graphics overhaul and finish it, or finish it with the intended retro graphics

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http://steveth45.net/AstFunGame03.zip

It's pretty much as advertised, but there are no UFO's. You'll need Windows to run this thing. I used SDL and OpenGL, wrote it in Dev-C++, compiled with MinGW. BTW, the asteroid shapes are randomly generated, and the vector "font" was designed by me. The source code is available upon request.

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Checkbox randomises it's x,y around the screen and you have to check it, gets progressively faster and blah blah yadda yadda.

"Check the checkbox 2: The Revenge" was a REAL game though, you got to choose a character this time, like checkbox or radiobutton.

Looking back on that code I was really amazed. I wrote my own sprite and level editor and an opcode based animation engine.

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sam, that game is pretty neat. you should make a "remake" and color the sprites :O

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that Rapid Game Development one, don't think I've read that... will read.

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@Goldrush That rocks! i'd like to have a copy of that Very creative.

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that's gotta be the easiest game ever to program. lol.

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Republic Strife is at: http://www.savefile.com/files/438082
Maze-O-Rama is at: http://www.savefile.com/files/438085

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Thought travels much faster than sound, it is better to think something twice, and say it once, than to think something once, and have to say it twice.
"Frogs and Fauns! The tournament!" - Professor Winneynoodle/HanClinto

Then I went on to try my hand at what was called "Infinitum", which was intended to be an epic rpg in 2d, hand pixeled glory!

One day, it will return... one day.

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filthy monsters

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http://www.jonwarner.net/index.php?p=1_5_Projects

will try and upload more of my games I've done over the years..

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so, coded this in C++.
the coding is pretty bad, but this was done almost 10 years ago.
the story is also a hack job. sounds almost like the rebel alliance trying to find the plans for the death star.

so, anyhow, I present the world debut of Mech Assault, Text Adventure extraordinaire:

http://paladin.250free.com/mech.zip

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Realm Master: "I'm cockasian"
Soterion Studios

Arch: SW, Hacking? Awesome, MUST TRY later...

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MM out-
Thought travels much faster than sound, it is better to think something twice, and say it once, than to think something once, and have to say it twice.
"Frogs and Fauns! The tournament!" - Professor Winneynoodle/HanClinto

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MM out-
Thought travels much faster than sound, it is better to think something twice, and say it once, than to think something once, and have to say it twice.
"Frogs and Fauns! The tournament!" - Professor Winneynoodle/HanClinto

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MM out-
Thought travels much faster than sound, it is better to think something twice, and say it once, than to think something once, and have to say it twice.
"Frogs and Fauns! The tournament!" - Professor Winneynoodle/HanClinto

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Realm Master: "I'm cockasian"
Soterion Studios

Arch, that's a logical impossibility, and shows that you do NOT EVEN KNOW what spyware means!

Sorry I didn't post the controls:
Insert - Start\Select
Delete - Back
Home - Main Menu
Cursor Keys - Movement

Also, just remembered something.. if you exit minimize the game, then come back to it without restarting the entire app. then the character sprites are all screwed up, because I didn't restore the dx graphics device!

Oh, I played yours Archangel, it's pretty interesting ^^ And... the Golaith got me! I played yours as well bwoogie, Mario style! ^^ I got the key, but couldn't figure out how to get back to those locks

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I played yours as well bwoogie, Mario style! ^^ I got the key, but couldn't figure out how to get back to those locks

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you have to go back the way you came.

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Thought travels much faster than sound, it is better to think something twice, and say it once, than to think something once, and have to say it twice.
"Frogs and Fauns! The tournament!" - Professor Winneynoodle/HanClinto

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Thought travels much faster than sound, it is better to think something twice, and say it once, than to think something once, and have to say it twice.
"Frogs and Fauns! The tournament!" - Professor Winneynoodle/HanClinto

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MM out-
Thought travels much faster than sound, it is better to think something twice, and say it once, than to think something once, and have to say it twice.
"Frogs and Fauns! The tournament!" - Professor Winneynoodle/HanClinto

http://www.theboomshelter.com/hss.html
http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=11430

You need version 2.25 for some of the demo's
http://www.blender3d.com/cms/Older_versions.283.0.html

Not trying to convert\force you into it or anything, just think it's a pretty cool game engine. (I'm using it for my current project)

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This isnt my first game by any means, but it's my latest. it isnt near finished either. but i have a short demo up.

filthy monsters

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No offense to you, but that looks like gamemaker...

please tell me I'm mistaken, and you just made something that looked errily similar!

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Check out my crazy sig that I made:

Not that there's anything wrong with that...GameMaker is a great tool!

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Thought travels much faster than sound, it is better to think something twice, and say it once, than to think something once, and have to say it twice.
"Frogs and Fauns! The tournament!" - Professor Winneynoodle/HanClinto
I reserve the full right to change my views/theories at any time.

http:\\wordwheeze.lathamdesign.co.uk

You will have to register to play the Public game but it works well.

I'm trying to complete the private games now but finding the time to do it is really hard...a third of the way there anyway!

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stoped optimizing this game when I lost my sheet which told me what all the variables refered to. And I can't upload this one because some of the file names have illegal symbols for computers.

Title:Adventurer's Strike
Date competed: 2003 I think
Genre: N/A
Programming Tools: ti-83 plus calculator, written in ti-83 plus BASIC.
Controls:
UP/Down - Menu Navigation
Enter - Menu Select
0-9 - quantity entry(number of items to buy/sell/use)

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Junior Programmer www.auran.com
Quality Assurance Lead www.rebelplanetcreations.com

CONTROLS:
player 1(top):
a: left
d: right
s: shoot
player 2:
right-left keys: right-left
up key: shoot

to change ships, you have to define diferent ship classes in the code.

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