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Zotoaster
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Posted: 3rd Feb 2015 18:35 Edited at: 3rd Feb 2015 18:39
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Haven't been posting much, but I lurk from time to time. Can't believe it's been a decade. Ooft, I'm feeling old now.

I remember the good old days, especially making X-Ball on DBC http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=58633&b=8, though stupid imageshack isn't showing the screenies anymore (edit: anyone know how to fix this?). And my various crappy scripting languages http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=186990&b=8, they were a lot of fun to make!

For those who care, I made a real programming language now which I use for my webdev work http://pastebin.com/GYzhe9VE

It's good to know this place is still alive. Here's to another 10 years


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Of course in all that time I still haven't learned how to post a proper hyperlink!



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Green Gandalf
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Posted: 4th Feb 2015 09:47
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Quote: "Here's to another 10 years"


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Gingerkid Jack
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Posted: 4th Feb 2015 13:48
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I've been lurking for a long time now and this year will be my 10th on the forums. Can't believe how long its been!! I joined because of FPSC EA and remember being so excited to start making games Now I mainly stick around for the GC board and seeing what you game you lot make

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Van B
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Posted: 4th Feb 2015 16:32
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Slightly longer for me.

I realized today that I'm the longest serving admin staff at work - no other office employee has been here longer than me... that's some scary stuff right there - I'm getting old!

I am the one who knocks...
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KeithC
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Posted: 4th Feb 2015 17:25
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^^ That means you make the coffee, Van.

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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 4th Feb 2015 23:30
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Oh I passed the 10 year mark too. Wow, what have I been doing with my life?


Quote: "I realized today that I'm the longest serving admin staff at work - no other office employee has been here longer than me... that's some scary stuff right there - I'm getting old!"


I am the second longest serving person on my department. I have been here for over 2 years, the 3rd longest? Has been here 8 months. Well...I do work in a call center I suppose. But that should be testament to the kind of attrition rate you get in that kind of place.

The irony is the only manager we've had who said they'd try to tackle the attrition rate didn't stick around for very long.

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Clonkex
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Posted: 5th Feb 2015 04:05
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You're all old. I'll have been here only 5 years in May Still feels like a long time because I joined when I was so young, though


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Dark Java Dude 64
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Posted: 5th Feb 2015 05:57
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Quote: "I'll have been here only 5 years in May"
Aye, 5 years for me in September I think?

Quote: "I joined when I was so young, though"
I joined when I was even younger.

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easter bunny
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Posted: 5th Feb 2015 07:40 Edited at: 5th Feb 2015 07:41
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I shall not say how young I was when I joined.
just over two years for me and still hanging around, guess it's true, you can never leave The Game Creators forums


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Posted: 13th Feb 2015 07:29
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Quote: "I remember the good old days, especially making X-Ball on DBC http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=58633&b=8, though stupid imageshack isn't showing the screenies anymore (edit: anyone know how to fix this?)."


I love reminiscing about old projects and such! But, it goes to show how futile things are on the Internet--most WIPs and EXEs from 5+ years ago are long since expired and gone forever. Not even archive.org cached the images you are after. I would love to revisit some old apps I wrote and others I downloaded in the very earliest days of DB Classic but alas they are no more.

I was a member on this forum since about the time it was created in 2002. I was actually in the community since late-1999 on TGC's prior forums and incarnations, when DB Classic was only on 0.4 beta! One of the original forums was hosted through darkbasic.co.uk in 1999-2001 via UltimateBB. There was also a very popular DB forum at a now defunct site called RealGameTools that lasted through 2003 or so.

It's depressing to think how many of these sites went under. There used to be dozens of great DB resource websites around with unofficial newsletters, forums etc. RealGameTools.net even hosted official DB conventions in the early-2000s, and now it hasn't existed at all for more than a decade.

People always say once something gets on the Internet it will be there forever, but I would argue in 10 years time very little that exists now will still exist! I'm happy TGC is still going though, and quite a few longtime members.
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MrValentine
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Sun Dec 5th 2010

I should have joined at the end of December haha...

Yeah, wow time flies...

I would have been here since ~2008 but I was weary of 60% Discount banners on certain NVIDIA downloads a point I made to Rick at Play Expo a year or so ago...

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Clonkex
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Posted: 13th Feb 2015 12:53
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Quote: "but I was weary of 60% Discount banners on certain NVIDIA downloads"


You were tired of the banners?


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MrValentine
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LOL

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CJB
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Posted: 17th Feb 2015 16:01
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Ten years plus for me too. Was also on the classic and dbdn forums for a long time prior to that. Ouch. Do we get Veteran badges!?

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Wolf
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Posted: 23rd Feb 2015 16:50
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9 years using TGC products for me. Not yet 10 but very close

I've recently revisited my 2012 3d thread and some projects from 2009 to 2013. I believe these years was really my "prime" in terms of trying to make games. Nowadays the overall time I spend on my computer and developing stuff at all is merely a fraction of what it was in that time range yet... oddly enough, when I glance through my old stuff I have very clear memories of the thought and creative process behind it and it feels more as if it was a couple months ago.

It feels a lot as if tomorrow I'll be 25, the day after tomorrow 30, next week I'm married and have children, then I'll bury my parents, then my kids will move out and if I live that long will have a few more decades...3 to 4 concidering my ancestors...in retirment and do some gardening and then I'll be dead. The memory of me will be lost in oblivion or, if I happen to become a famous writer or such thing there will remain an idealised carricature of my character...either way not much more in this world.

The point being no attempt at highschool-level philosophy but the notion that our life is ending one moment at a time and that simple things as a forum where we share iterations of our hobby together shows it to us more than a mirror does.

Quote: "I joined when I was so young, though"


Me too!! I didn't even have any notion of the english language when I first joined.

Quote: "Veteran badges!?"


Would be cool! Anyone who jouned 10 years ago should have a badge with a little walking-cane in it.



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Green Gandalf
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Posted: 23rd Feb 2015 18:53
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Quote: "Anyone who jouned 10 years ago should have a badge with a little walking-cane in it."


I should have one on at least two counts.

Quote: "It feels a lot as if tomorrow I'll be 25, the day after tomorrow 30, next week I'm married and have children, then I'll bury my parents, then my kids will move out and if I live that long will have a few more decades...3 to 4 concidering my ancestors...in retirment and do some gardening and then I'll be dead."


You've just summed up my life. [Except for the last bit I guess. ]



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Posted: 24th Feb 2015 11:59
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Quote: " [Except for the last bit I guess. ]"


You don't plan on dying? Me neither.
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Clonkex
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Posted: 25th Feb 2015 00:36
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Quote: "You don't plan on dying? Me neither."


Well of course not. I certainly don't.


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Dying, pft..., you never heard of DevMode?



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Yodaman Jer
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Nobody *plans* on dying. It just happens sometimes*.








*sometimes meaning all the time, lest you are somehow privy to the knowledge of immortality and are perhaps a vampire

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come to think of it it's been pretty close to 10 years for me with my original account wind27382. I'm more of an artist but I got my start with Dark basic and I'll never forget how helpful these forums where.
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Van B
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Hehe, reminds me of a funny rant I had last week about mortality in IT support.

I'm sure a lot of people in IT have had the old 'what if you get hit by a bus' conversation with upper management - well my response is always 'You'll wish you spent more money on IT'
It's like there should be a clause in my contract, that if I should die I will still continue to provide IT support. I am no longer entitled to a peaceful death, I have to worry about how my job is done in the afterlife. I might have to start my own consultancy firm run by ghosts, like Randal and Hopkirk but for IT support.

I am the one who knocks...
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kind of like the anime kiddy grade, you finish your work even in death. Once you sign a contract you complete your job.
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My ten year anniversary is coming up this fall, right before KeithC's.

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice


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Quote: "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice"


NOW you've done it!


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I've been around for almost 8 years, that's sort of terrifying

Still don't have any finished projects to show for it, either.

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Must be time for a 10 year badge, long flowing white hair standing on a mountain top.. alternative known as the TGC lifer badger


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Quote: "I'm sure a lot of people in IT have had the old 'what if you get hit by a bus' conversation with upper management - well my response is always 'You'll wish you spent more money on IT'"


Had this conversation with an external devops audit. It was pretty much, "What if BiggAdd gets hit by a bus? He is the business"... and then he kept saying it. The guy really wanted me to get hit by a bus!

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Posted: 9th Mar 2015 01:24 Edited at: 9th Mar 2015 01:28
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Hmm I just realized that I may have actually been a mod for over ten years already-- there was that thread where TGC modded up a whole bunch of people all at once. Good times

EDIT: Here it is, from September 2004
http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=38534&b=2

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Wow, there was a time VanB wasn't a mod? I assumed he just came out of the womb with the badge.
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Ah, Jeku... and I didn't even get you anything!

So many users in that thread that no longer visit!

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Jeku
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I know right? It was a nice trip down memory lane, and it really doesn't feel like 10 years ago

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Quote: "I assumed he just came out of the womb with the badge."


Me too...


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Quote: "Wow, there was a time VanB wasn't a mod? I assumed he just came out of the womb with the badge."


Probably wearing one when he was conceived too. And a slap for it as well.



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Once I saw this thread I had to check my date, and I too have been around for 10+ years. A month or two ago when I came back to these forums I re-read some of my old threads and just cringed at how cocky I was in my early 20's. After read dozens of forum posts and checking out the new products my TGC addiction flared up again and I ended up buying AGK2 and also grabbing GameGuru.
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Quote: "I ended up buying AGK2"


Excellent choice!


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