[HN Gopher] "This game has been shamelessly stolen "
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       "This game has been shamelessly stolen "
        
       Author : frenchie14
       Score  : 62 points
       Date   : 2022-07-29 16:51 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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       | hgazx wrote:
       | His younger self probably thought that working on drm was more
       | interesting than working on improving gameplay.
        
       | rnoorda wrote:
       | Thanks for this, it gave me a laugh. There's something beautiful
       | about how we see the first few things we create. We think
       | everyone will love them as much as we do. I remember my first
       | game made in Visual Basic- it was _this close_ to being a hit-
       | just missing some better graphics, and better code, and actual
       | fun gameplay.
        
       | drewzero1 wrote:
       | Younger me definitely had an inflated opinion of my own early
       | BASIC programming work, and very secretive about the source code.
       | (C)(R)(TM) etc. Now I wish I _had_ copied that floppy.
        
         | indemnity wrote:
         | I somehow managed to preserve source and all my personal files
         | from my very first personal PC 30 years ago until now (a
         | religiously copied backup folder back then, now NAS with cloud
         | backups). I've looked at my first source code (Pascal and
         | Basic). It is.... Not pretty. Younger self thought it was cool
         | to use the shortest possible variable names and avoid
         | indentation or even spaces if I could. And spent an inordinate
         | amount on building ANSI and VGA text user interfaces to brag
         | with on the BBS programming club... the functionality was
         | secondary to whether it looked "elite"!
        
       | frenchie14 wrote:
       | I posted this little story to Reddit and I thought the HN crowd
       | might get a smile out of it as well. I'm sure I'm not the only
       | one who was overly protective of their work at a younger age. The
       | good news is that I was able to remove the sitelock by
       | decompiling the SWF.
        
         | actually_a_dog wrote:
         | I just think it's hilarious that you even had to pirate your
         | own game :)
        
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