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DarkBASIC Discussion / I can't believe it!!!

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DARKGuy
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Hey! I've tested the Tank Demo v3 for DBC and after killing the 3 tanks, the ending text was something like:

THIS GAME TOOK LEE
BAMBER JUST TWO
DAYS TO WRITE

I only have one thing to say: I CAN'T BELIEVE IT!

¿¿is this true??

¿¿how many hours at day he spend making it??

I've been making my secret game for more than a week and isn't
nothing like that tank game, just top-down view and isn't a GTA, so how the hell he did it in 2 days?!??!??!??!?!??!??!?!??!?!?! , or it's just me?

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indi
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Posted: 12th Apr 2004 10:22
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lee wrote DB so he has intimate knowledge of how each command works as well as years of programming and development.

I wont hurt your mind and tell you about the 24 hr game build challenge a few years back then.


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Mentor
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Posted: 12th Apr 2004 13:22 Edited at: 12th Apr 2004 13:23
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LOL, you can write a game in a hour, not a very good one admited, but it can be done, Lee has probably been coding as long as me (but he knows C++ where I just dabble in C++/Basic for a hobby), after a while you can think in basic, I just wrote 300 lines of program header non stop and it ran after sorting two typo`s, a filename and junking a corrupted model that was crashing the loader, if you want some idea of how long you have to spend to get solid with basic, I started when I was 14, now I am just gone 43, practice makes perfect

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DARKGuy
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Posted: 12th Apr 2004 17:03
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Quote: "I wont hurt your mind and tell you about the 24 hr game build challenge a few years back then."


hey that was cool! I can't do a game (right now) in 24 hours but....they will be again?

Quote: " I started when I was 14, now I am just gone 43, practice makes perfect"


Whoa! 14! now 43! wow you must be something like Lee in DB then! so...is really possible...mmmm so I'll have to practice like you hehe now I understand why he took 2 days......thanks

BTW...where's Lee and Jessticular??

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muscles
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if anyone cares, i make games in two/three days all the time; there just not any good.
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Neofish
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Posted: 13th Apr 2004 22:11
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43! OMG

BTW from experience i have noted that forum creaters disapear after a while, its a mystery

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Battosaibry
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I didnt know that tank game was beatable! I kept shooting the tank and nothing happened so I got bored and left lol. I have a friend (hes not on the forum) who is 17 and he could make a small flight simulator pretty quickly and other small things.

Make games play games, hey its a living!
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Phaelax
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Posted: 14th Apr 2004 08:22
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Hey Mentor, I think you've just established yourself a nickname, Dad.
I wrote a full out database with a GUI in Pascal back in highschool in about a week. I had 2 weeks to make it, but after the first week I was so screwed up, I deleted the whole project and started over. Yea, don't do that. Requirements didn't call for a gui, only text based, but I like to be fancy. Otherwise, I could've done it in a day or two.

It all comes with practice over time. It used to take me days to write a simple text pac-man. Now I could probably do it in an hour. Hmm, actually I think i'll go do that now while I'm thinking about it.

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