Congrats, Jack! Have a good one!


*And punt a small fraction of income to the third world...okay, I couldn't help but add a guilt trip! Though it's valid - we can't just help ourselves but then when things go wrong expect others to help us*

Yeah - they are for pro's, like Halls!

Changed my search terms a bit and I think I found it...this page even has a picture of the very book I was thinking of (scroll down a little to see it)

You make sense, Jack. But it gets in the way of the nosalgia feels! Feeeeeeels! I was just remembering some of the games - like running a castle siege or growing 'bushels'. Or 'Camel', the game... I mean people played these - so I think they are proof of being a valid game (despire the era moving on...

Probably because I wont understand the code thoroughly and partly for nostalgia of reading basic code!

I'm surprised there isn't a repository of them around!

I'm looking for some old text based games written in basic. Anyone remember books that came out with the code printed out in them! That was an era! Preferably some classic ones. I'd like to take a text game written in basic game that has at some point been treated as a neat game and use it for my pu...

Looks like it's coming along! I think it's a good idea to enjoy it as a game right now and instead of thinking what it lacks, think only about what you could add to the game if you wanted to. Remember to sit down with every day for 15 minutes or so, not to program at all - just to game and enjoy it....

Sometimes it's good to just sit for 10 minutes and whether you make anything or just ponder or just sit for 10 minutes, it means you put aside time to make things. That's the important step.

Good luck with your journeys, Halls!

You do stupid crap that the Internet at large deems unacceptable (such as bot spamming), you will quickly get your IP on a blacklist and find yourself exiled from the Internet haha! And that makes me wonder who keeps the blacklisters accountable? Lose the small time hoods only to gain a big time ho...

That's a lot of hours!

Did some work on a pen and paper adventure module tonight, since my kick starter got funded.