I retro-live more or less  , but when our whole generation dies, nobody is going to play super mario bros again, except in a weird underground vintage museum on pot.

[The thing is]

Projects like MAME, DOSBox and VMware (and other emulators/virtual machines) seem to sort it out. With newer higher-power computers, you can simulate old hardware

Nowadays you can make use of cross-platform libraries (primarily thanks to Stallman and the GNU movement) that will eventually evolve to newer platforms, and you should be able to port it easily.

With good programming techniques and abstraction you can also port it, even if the library you use is deprecated (see Doom on iPhone, it was almost unchanged).

The thing is, will Left 4 Dead (or whatever) be enjoyable in 50 years? I don't see a lot of people playing Leisure suite Larry 1 (even with the ease of DOSBox)
:3

[left]

xD

I'm not that heartless, It's just that I sort of started off on the right left foot with love.

Btw. I fucking love this video (Love+Nerd related).

It would be nice to have a mini rushed 2-day compo for valentine:
The "Meaning of valentine for you through gameplay" compo.

 

Focused on gameplay, even if you end up using coloured rectangles as "lovers".

Working on a blog

Also changed the look of my site slightly. Now hopefully the blog and main site match.

(yeah I use google sites. I'm lazy and cheap!)

Those look really really cool
Eventually you could add a streaming widget to the music section to preview some/all of your tracks! It feels a little empty right now for a whole section.


I'm also working on my site, it was a really bad idea to try to tough it up and code it myself from scratch in php.

Focus on the mechanics: if the game shines (really fun to play) it won't matter... you can switch the artwork/music later

Oh noes! you have 7 days, thewreck D:

What?

I didn't feel the love here neither, so I went for the acid long-term truth

(fixed the tinypic deleted pic)

(Some douchebag flagged the picture  )

Sorry, I suck at this love thing, when is Valentine's day?

[right now]

About paid libraries: even if you're not doing right now a commercial game, you will. And you'll have to re-learn to use an audio library again (or pay the license)

Unless it's really REALLY REALLY a convenience, I would skip them.

Needs Cactus: http://youtube.com/cactusquid

http://youtube.com/cactussquid

fix'd

I love the Messhof channel 

Any news on this? I replied your PM

http://www.youtube.com/nitram00 - Personal
http://www.youtube.com/TwoBananasAndMilk - My game trailers

One guy last week did 260k points...eek! Must be the only one that reached lvl4

I totally agree on that level 1 lameness, but it was to sort of get a grasp on the mechanics, I never thought that a player would play more than once :p.
I should pass some enemies from level 2 to level 1 after 20-30 seconds or so.
And include the "hard" plastic around that time too in level 2 instead of from the start.

Regards!

I recommend OpenAL.
SFML has a nice encapsulation of OpenAL.

BASS has a paid license for commercial projects.

1/scrollFactor.x and 1/scrollFactor.y times the size of the "normal" (scroll factors = 1.0) layers, for width and height respectively.

me me me me me me!

I almost win the original with the no-background-clearing option (can't remember the name, the option that's completly nuts)

Congratulations, it's my favourite game for 2009 (Here's some proof, in spanish thou)
I hope you get some coins from your iPhone version, it totally deserves it!

BTW: I have an iPod Touch 3G.

Regards
-Martín